Here are all the White Dwarf covers, from issue 1 to 106 (when I stopped buying it), arranged and listed next to their credited artist. It’s a veritable feast of RPG artwork (albeit in thumbnail form).
The great Chris Achilleos has the most covers, with a whopping 13, followed by John Blanche and Emmanuel with 6 each. For those artists who did provide multiple covers, it’s interesting to see them side-by-side, to identify their styles and common themes, and in some cases to see how their style developed over time. The biggest gap is for Jim Burns, who after the somewhat notorious cover for issue 44 had to wait a long time until his next, for 103.
On that note, I decided I would include a small thumbnail of each of the covers, however questionable a few of them are now (and were back then). Please don’t take their inclusion as an endorsement of the image.
Some well-renowned artists like Rodney Matthews, Gary Chalk and Ian Miller only ever had one cover, which is a bit of a surprise, and there are a few others like Dave Pether and Ken Kelly who I’d have liked to see more from.
But enough waffle, on with the list.
| Artist | Issues | Covers |
| Chris Beaumont | 1, 6 |   |
| Christopher Baker | 2 |  |
| Alan Hunter | 3 |  |
| John Blanche | 4, 7, 11, 42, 79, 83 |       |
| Polly Wilson | 5 |  |
| Derek Hayes | 8 |  |
| Christopher Perigo | 9 |  |
| Eddie Jones | 10, 12, 13, 15, 22 |      |
| Emmanuel | 14, 23, 25, 34, 37, 40 |       |
| Les Edwards | 16, 19, 35, 55, 102 |      |
| Angus McKie | 17, 20, 49 |    |
| Star Trek the Motion Picture | 18 |  |
| Robert Adams | 21 |  |
| Dave Pether | 24 |  |
| Iain McCaig | 26, 51, 96 |    |
| Alan Craddock | 27, 48, 52, 71 |     |
| Terry Oakes | 28, 50 |   |
| Andrew George | 29, 33 |   |
| Nicholas Bibby | 30, 38, 39 |    |
| Alan Howcroft | 31 |  |
| Jim Burns | 32, 43, 44, 103 |     |
| Brian Bolland | 36 |  |
| John Harris | 41 |  |
| Gary Ward | 45 |  |
| Gary Mayes | 46 |  |
| Gary Chalk | 47 |  |
| Angus Fieldhouse | 53, 85, 104 |    |
| Peter Andrew Jones | 54, 59, 64, 76, 97 |      |
| Chris Achilleos | 56, 58, 60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 77, 78, 81, 89, 91, 94 |              |
| Tweddell | 57 |  |
| Gino D’Achille | 63 |  |
| Mark Bromley | 67, 69 |   |
| Brian Williams | 68, 70 |   |
| Lee Gibbons | 72, 73, 75 |    |
| Frank Brunner | 74, 87 |   |
| Ken Kelly | 80 |  |
| John Sibbick | 82, 90, 93, 95, 100 |      |
| Ian Miller | 84 |  |
| Rodney Matthews | 86 |  |
| David Gallagher | 88, 92, 105, 106 |     |
| Dave Andrews | 98 |  |
| Collective Creativity Inc. | 99 |  |
| Colin Dixon | 101 |  |
Awesome, thanks so many memories in these musty old pages when i get a old copy of WD!
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