If most book covers get five-second glances, spend 15 with this one. After a time, you’ll notice little bouncing gestures with the type. Then you’ll notice the speck.

Five is the magic number in Jamie Keenan’s brilliant typographic cover for Joyce Carol Oates’ latest novel. Rather than simply rendering the seven five-letter words on a flat plane, threading the ...

BATMAN: COVER TO COVER: The Greatest Comic Book Covers of the Dark Knight Neal Adams, Chip Kidd, Jim Lee, . . DC Comics, $39.99 (240pp) ISBN 978-1-4012-0659-8 ...

Take the Robert Heinlein book The Puppet Masters: In its second, 1963, Signet edition, the cover shows a dark but still cartoonish rendering of what looks like a giant space craft.

The original X-Men #1 cover placed high on IGN's list of the top 25 most iconic cover book covers of all time. It's clear that art is continuing to influence Marvel artists even more than 30 years ...