Who drew the cover to Teen-Age Romances #42?

[Sir Tim Drake]

While reading the Fantagraphics Romance Without Tears collection, I happened to notice this cover:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13467/400/13467_4_042.jpg

There's something about this cover that powerfully attracts me. It's quiet and peaceful, yet there's a sense of great emotional depths behind it. The characters, especially the girl, seem both nervous and excited at once, in a very restrained way. The leaves falling in the background suggest that this is a single, frozen moment in time, while also creating a sense of atmosphere, as if this were a real place. And there's no dialogue or captions to clutter the image up.

Can anyone identify the artist of this excellent cover? Was it Matt Baker perhaps?

[Sir Tim Drake]

Oh, okay -- according to the table of contents in the book, it is by Matt Baker, and so are all the other covers shown in that section of the book.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Here is another lovely cover that's probably also by Matt Baker:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13450/400/13450_4_028.jpg

[MDG]

There's something about this cover that powerfully attracts me. It's quiet and peaceful, yet there's a sense of great emotional depths behind it.
Very nice, but i don't trust the guy--Protoshop out the books under his arm and add a smoldering cig between his fingers, it becomes totally different.

MDG

[dan bailey]

add a smoldering cig between his fingers, it becomes totally different.


"Is that a smoldering cig between your fingers, or are you just glad to see me?"

[Scott Shaw!]

Take another look at that TEENAGE ROMANCES cover. Although the girl is looking at his face, the guy is looking at the top of her head! Connecting eye-lines are very important, especially in love comics, and it's interesting that, although Matt Baker was an amazingly talented artist, he really flubbed that aspect of this cover.

That is, unless misaligned eye-lines was his INTENTION? And if so, why?

Aloha,

Scott!

[Lone Ranger]

Maybe he is trying to see is she is a real blonde, in a wholesome 50s kind of way.

[Slam_Bradley]

Maybe he is trying to see is she is a real blonde, in a wholesome 50s kind of way.


I suspect he's checking for kooties.

[Bill Angus]

He's obviously checking out the housewife vacuuming in the nude, just off camera behind the blonde.

Really, people.