magazines part II

          The earlier magazines did not tend to use covers like we do know, their "cover" was the title and table of contents, but when they did use the cover they used something like a book but without word descriptions. Also they started to use small illustrations with other things on the new covers. 1890 is when they started to use actual overs with no words needed because the cover explained it all, the cover illustration had do with the main article in the magazine. Later on they started to used actual pictures of other people like portraits. Pictures married to type is where the writer uses a great cover line to catch the readers eye better then the art can. The cover lines are supposed to help with dialogue and with the pictures. The cover lines are now in front of the pictures and art, the pictures are in the background and the cover lines take the lead while it looks like art. The topics of the magazine are informed on the front with the cover lines.