2000 AD Covers Uncovered – Joe Strikes A Pose For Simon Coleby & Prog 2319
15th February 2023
Every week, 2000 AD brings you the galaxy’s greatest artwork and 2000 AD Covers Uncovered takes you behind-the-scenes with the headline artists responsible for our top cover art – join bloggers Richard Bruton and Pete Wells as they uncover the greatest covers from 2000 AD!
Another incredible cover this week from Simon Coleby, whose work we usually see gracing the cover and the insides of the Prog for his tale of Number-Earth nightmares, Jaegir. However, this week Tharg has assigned him the task of showing us Joe Pineapples in all his glory for 2000 AD Prog 2319, out right now!
Inside the Prog, we have more from Joe Pineapples in the Tin Man series by Pat Mills and Clint Langley, but it’s always such a pleasure to see Simon’s work – whether it’s on the cover or in the Prog!
Simon sends his apologies for this one – as it’s a short and sweet one! As Tharg demands, Simon’s been beavering away with other work and had to send this Covers Uncovered last minute. But he did send us along some great process art to show you!
Okay then, here’s what he had to say about it…
SIMON COLEBY: Anyway — here’s all I have for the Joe Pineapples cover. It was the most straightforward brief ever – Tharg simply asked me for ‘a Joe Pineapples cover.’ That was it — no demands of context, setting or whatever. I did four roughs. Tharg chose the one he preferred. I drew it. Everyone was happy — time for a pint.
And that was it! Sometimes these things take a long time, sometimes a cover just comes together like that. This one starts off with the four roughs that Simon sent off to Tharg…
After Tharg picked the one he preferred, Simon got to work, first pencils, then inks, and finally sent off to Tharg to get colourist extraordinaire Jim Boswell to add his magic for the finished cover!
So first it’s pencils of the big man striking heroic pose…
Next, inks and inks over the trade dress for composition…
And once Simon’s finished with it and happy, it’s sent over to colourist Jim Boswell to make the whole thing pop… just like this!
So there you go, thanks so much for Simon to sending that one along – we never mind it being short and sweet, a droids gotta get Tharg’s work done. You can find 2000 AD Prog 2319 out right now – get it at all the best comic shops and newsagents across the land, or from the 2000 AD web shop.
