Inspiration from other magazine covers.

I think that this cover for mad magazine is good because it uses a play on the iconic album cover for Nirvana's album Nevermind, this adds humerous effect to the image, as people will recognise the photo, usually associating the naked person as a baby, but in this photo they have been represented as a cartoonised Barrack Obama. I also like the simpleness of the magazine, and how there has not been to much crammed onto the front page. 'The 20 dumbest things people and events of 2011' title gives me an idea of what the magazine has to offer, without giving away too much information to make buying the magazine unneccasery, this makes me want to read the magazine as it seems funny and entertaining.

I like this magazine cover because it is very simple but effective. The face of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner is placed right in the middle of the page, and 'Arctic Monkeys' is displayed. This already attracts to Arctic Monkeys huge fan base. Also if you take the time to actually read the writing placed all around his head, it is lyrics for the songs from the recent album they released. 'Suck It And See.' This plays on the tagline of the issue, 'Inside Alex Turners head' as it is showing all of the things that he has wrote, and the things he thinks about, as his lyrics are known to be odd. All this is done without losing the fact that it is still 'Q' magazine and not just a magazine with Arctic Monkeys, and therefore people who go out and occasionaly buy Q are still likely to see the issue and buy it, as well as Arctic Monkeys fans who would possibly not originally buy the issue.

I like this magazine cover because the colours that have been used are very clever. The magazine is all about Punk Rock, and the colour scheme is the same as the iconic, birth of punk album by The Sex Pistols. As well as this, I like how the magazine title does not have to been fully shown, showing that the title is iconic and well known enough to the level where you don't have to read the whole of it to know that it is kerrang magazine.