You may or may not be sick to death of news related to Watchmen. Fortunately for you, overexposure doesn’t make Mike Essl any less of a bad ass. So do yourself a favor and go a read an interview with Essl about the design process behind the new book.
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(Cover images via Chip Kidd™’s collection of work.)
I’d blemish the beginning of to spy that too!