Hey all. I’m continuing my Illustrated 2020 covers series today and I have been waiting to do this post forever. In honor of Valentine’s Day and, you know, gorgeous covers, I’m featuring all of the (standing) illustrated couples of 2020 that I could track down. Nothing like looking at a ton of couples to get you in the mood for feeling single. 😂
I’m not a bitter. Really!! I promise.
I am hoping that all of these are actually romances as I was unsure about a couple of them. 🤔 I’ll be featuring quite a few covers from a past WCW as well because, well, it’s just how it goes.
Wondrous Covers Wednesday is a weekly feature where I usually choose to showcase at least three covers with similar attributes and themes. This series will be branching out a little. To see past editions, you can check out my page for them here.
Let’s see what similarities I’m noticing in these covers aside from the obvious:
- Blue backgrounds and Books Are Being Featured: The Perfect Escape, What I Like About You, The Upside of Falling, and Recommended For You. Plus we have Verona Comics taking place at a comic book store.
- Wilderness Is Still A Thing: The Edge of Anything, Wildfire, Above All Else
- There’s some Hand Action with The Extraordinaries and Music From Another World
- I feel like it’s hard to say colors are a trend but given these are all (mostly) covers with romantic couples on them, I’m going to with-
- Orange, Pink, Purple Sunset Colors happening – The Extraordinaries, Music From Another World, The Fascinators, We Are Totally Normal, The Falling In Love Montage (those all look so good together), Every Other Weekend, Love, Jacaranda and The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly.
- There’s also couples being back to back – Every Other Weekend, When We Were Infinite, More Than Maybe and Stay Gold
- We have a lot of rivalries and tension between Every Reason We Shouldn’t, I Kissed Alice and Verona Comics.
- Multiple ‘models’ are a trend with Yes No Maybe So and Again Again (and more to come with that).
My favorites are:
Recommended For You, The Falling In Love Montage, Every Other Weekend, Yes No Maybe So and Love, Jacaranda.
The colors are especially gorgeous with Love, Jacaranda.
OOOH we have many favorites in common! I was thinking Every Other Weekend, Yes No Maybe So and Love, Jacaranda too! Though I must agree too about The Falling In Love Montage, that is a cute one as well. Hell, I enjoy them all if I am totally honest. I am a fan of this trend!
They are all so freaking pretty, omg. Love, Jaracanda might be my favorite because it’s night time and purple and ugh, so cute.