head of design at Penguin’s Illustrated Books, who worked on the new series. “When Penguin Books launched with ten colour-coded books in 1935, ‘Crime’ was a deep green colour, which to me always ...

I first fell in love with the art of paperback covers at school in the 1970s. I had always adored books and had been brought up in a house packed to the rafters with them – and, much to my ...

Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles and authors – everyone from Carson McCullers and Vladimir Nabokov through to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

I thought it might be interesting to see how The Penguin stacks up against essentially every other comic book/superhero show in the modern era (the last decade or so), in terms of how it’s scored.