Charles Apple

The first round of page designs commemorating the release of the new Batman movie — The Dark Knight, which hits theaters midnight tonight — are in.

And man, are they cool.

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DAYTON DAILY NEWS
Dayton, Ohio

Randy Palmer of Dayton posted this really cool page at NewsPageDesigner that details the history of the Joker — focusing, naturally, on Heath Ledger in the new movie.

Randy writes:

I’m kind of nut on Batman, so I knew most of this stuff. I just had to double check some dates and make sure I had names spelled correctly.

This page is the third in a series, the first was on Catwoman and the second on Batman.

Looks like a fun read, Randy! Very cool.

Find more of Randy’s work at NewsPageDesigner.

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THE NEWS & ADVANCE
Lynchburg, Va.

Jeremy Fogt of the Lynchburg News & Advance sends along a couple of interesting pages:

See more of Jeremy’s stuff at NewsPageDesigner.

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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Salt Lake City

Former Virginian-Pilot intern Barbie DeSoto posted this one — with nicely Jokerized type treatment — at NPD Wednesday:

Find more of Barbie’s stuff at NewsPageDesigner.

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LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
Lincoln, Nebraska

Chad Gilliland used the same base photo but then used what appears to be Illustrator on top of the photo to create a posterized — and creepy — effect:

Find more of Chad’s stuff at NewsPageDesigner.

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KITSAP SUN
Bremerton, Wash.

But for pure creep-out value, it’d be difficult to top this one by Kitsap’s Jon Williams.

Find more of Jon’s stuff at NewsPageDesigner.

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EL MANANA
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

Marco González of the tiny El Mañana posted this cool photoillustration-slash-infographic:

Find more of Marco’s stuff in his NewsPageDesigner gallery.

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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Daniel Marsula posted this one:

Find more of Daniel’s stuff in his NewsPageDesigner gallery.

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VICTORIA ADVOCATE
Victoria, Texas

Meanwhile, our friends in southern Texas are still blowing out summer movies in their weekly entertainment tabs. Creative director Ryan Huddle writes:

I wanted to share with you the Batman M3 cover we are doing.

This is an original piece drawn by Robert Zavala for a wrap around cover. It brings the movie to a more local level. This cover, in my opinion, will be the best we have done all summer. My hat is off to Robert and Julie Zavala, who worked very hard to come up with a funny original piece for our readers.

I have attached a document that will show the evolution of the artwork from start to finish that Robert did for the wrap around cover.

The Advocate is a 33,000-circulation daily midway between Houston, San Antonio and Corpus Christi. We profiled the Advocate’s movie project last month.

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We’ll post more Dark Knight pages as we get them. Send ‘em along, folks!

Meanwhile, if you missed our posts on Indiana Jones movie treatments, find them here. And here. And here.

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