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In the Spanish-speaking world, José María Ponce [0] was equally legendary with his equally epic covers for Microhobby [1], a magazine covering the ZX Spectrum i
by ggambetta 5y ago
In the Spanish-speaking world, José María Ponce [0] was equally legendary with his equally epic covers for Microhobby [1], a magazine covering the ZX Spectrum in the 80s and early 90s.
Not only the covers are beautiful and witty, he always signed them PONCE but in very non-obvious places, so part of the fun of getting a new issue was to find the signature. Some are very cleverly hidden and ridiculously hard to find [2].
[0] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Ponce_Saiz https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Ponce_Sai...
[1] http://portadasmh.speccy.org/Prev1.html http://portadasmh.speccy.org/Prev1.html
[2] https://microhobby.speccy.cz/mhf/030/MH030_01.jpg https://microhobby.speccy.cz/mhf/030/MH030_01.jpg
- 101008 5y agoWow. I am from Argentina, and although not this one, we received some magazines from Spain in the 90s. That's who I learnt that Spain currency was the Peseta (and a few idioms as well!). I have good memories spending some afternoon reading them.
- ketzo 5y agoThese are gorgeous, thank you for the links.
- christkv 5y agoI spent my summer vacations reading my uncle’s microhobby collection. Such a great magazine.
- diskzero 5y agoThose covers are great! They remind me of the Choose Your Own Adventure book covers from the 80s. I don't know what what style to call those illustrations other than awesome!!!
- UncleSlacky 5y agoOliver Frey was famous in the UK for his covers for Spectrum/C64/Amstrad magazines (Crash/Zzap! 64/Amtix): https://twitter.com/retroscifiart/status/986035057973346304 https://twitter.com/retroscifiart/status/986035057973346304
- matsemann 5y agoIn the same vein (but different theme) I remember searching for D.U.C.K hidden in the covers made by Don Rosa for Donald as a kid. https://duck.neamar.fr/ https://duck.neamar.fr/