Covers

by Terry Moore (Artist)

360 pages, Hardcover

Published April 1, 2025

About the author

Following the examples of independent comic creators such as Dave Sim and Jeff Smith, he decided to publish Strangers in Paradise himself through his own Houston-based "Abstract Studios" imprint, and has frequently mentioned a desire to do a syndicated cartoon strip in the authors notes at the back of the Strangers in Paradise collection books. He has also mentioned his greatest career influence is Peanuts' Charles Schulz.[1] Some of Moore's strip work can additionally be found in his Paradise, Too! publications.

His work has won him recognition in the comics industry, including receiving the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1996 for Strangers in Paradise #1-8, which was collected in the trade paperback "I Dream of You".

It was announced on June 15th, 2007 that Moore would be taking over for Sean McKeever as writer of Marvel Comics's Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane series starting with a new issue #1. On July 27th, Marvel announced that Moore would also take over for Joss Whedon as writer of Marvel's Runaways.[2]

On November 19th, 2007 Terry Moore announced in his blog that his new self-published series would be named Echo and its first issue would appear on March 5th, 2008.[3]

Reviews

[Gary Sassaman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is for the softcover edition offered on Kickstarter.

I'm a sucker for a book that's just about comic book covers, even if I never read the series. Fortunately, in the case of this book, Terry Moore Covers, I've read all the series featured, including Strangers in Paradise, Echo, Rachel Rising, Motor Girl, SiPXXV, Five Years, Serial, and Parker Girls. This book reproduces all the covers (mostly without logos and trade dress) for each of those series, totaling over 275 covers over 25 years in just over 300 pages. Moore's covers are often enigmatic, emblematic, and just downright fun, sometimes giving more than just a hint of what's inside, sometimes not. I'm particularly fond of his SiP Mucha-like covers, which are included in this book. Production value on this book is great and each cover is given its own full page with the title logo tiny on top and the volume and issue number on the bottom. All-in-all, a great trip down memory lane for Moore's work and a keepsake collection of all his covers.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got the softcover edition from the Kickstarter campaign, it's it's packed full of outstanding artwork and perfectly designed covers.

I really need to read more of Terry's books. I admit, I gave up on SiP sometime probably in the 40s of the serialization. Maybe 50s. It seemed to be recycling itself and needed to end, which Terry eventually did several years later. Sadly (for my reading of Terry's books, although I swear by the choice overall - my bookshelves were getting absurdly overcluttered!), in the time since, I've moved to getting most of my comics through the library and I've had trouble getting Terry's books there. The omnibuses are appealing bricks, but a bit costly. I did get MOTOR GIRL and enjoyed it. I've intentionally not picked up SiPXXV or FIVE YEARS LATER bc I feel I should read ECHO (two trades only) and/or RACHEL RISING (nada) first. I guess I'll have to pony up if I want to.

[Simon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recent Reads: Covers. This collection of Terry Moore's comic art needs very few words, bringing together the covers for all his self-published works, from Strangers in Paradise to Serial. It's thirty years of work in one gorgeously over-sized book, charting a career and so many great stories.

[Holly Letson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of nice art.