Portland Mercury Readers' Ideas Fuel Bizarre Cover
By AAN Staff
april 19, 2010 09:33 am
Plenty of alt-weeklies have creative covers; some say it's a staple of the genre. But the most recent
Portland Mercury cover might be one of the flat-out weirdest we've ever seen: it features an illustration by Andrew Zubko of Betty White, holding a flaming chainsaw, riding John Ritter. This end result sprang from
a web poll the paper ran last month to see what readers wanted. (What, no
Mercury readers wanted to see Urkel brandishing a kitten atop a dinosaur version of Tim "Tool Time" Taylor?) Gawker
calls the cover a "slightly insane, slightly amazing pop-culture mindfuck."