I saw this Iron Man cover on Comics Continuum yesterday:


Which is not unlike one of my favorite movie posters of all time:


And speaking of graphic movie posters, I've been passing this 3:10 to Yuma poster on the way home from work, it's really iconic:


Looking it up online I found a few others, this one is also striking, I especially enjoy the texture and the font work (love the formation of the title). As with the one above, the only thing that would make these better if they abstracted the figures, maybe with a little Soul Bass cutout style.


Of course even the most beautiful movie campaigns now-a-days still have their crappy "here's our stars pasted together in Photoshop" poster:


Poster links: IMP Awards is a great poster archive with some nice large scans. While I was musing about posters I also found PosterWire, a movie poster blog that has good content but only updates a few times a month. Wish more advertising agencies put more thought into their poster campaigns.

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