Cover countdown: May 2016

A gentlemanly duck, plastic cutlery and Star Trek battled it out yesterday for best cover of April, and we’re pleased to announce the winner: Ordinary magazine! It will now go up as a contender for ‘People’s Cover of 2016’ on 23 December. We have been putting up the most popular covers from each month of the year on the Stack Instagram, and getting tweeters to vote for their favourite, with the best response walking away with a year-long Stack subscription.

This melancholy haiku from Mathieu was pretty unbeatable — we’ll be in touch shortly to set up your subscription!

@StackMagazines
Ordinary is
not what you are. The look of
plastic fork sadness.

— Mathieu Triay (@MathieuLoutre) December 12, 2016

Don’t sweat it if you missed out yesterday because we’re going full steam ahead with today’s voting. Scroll down to see your contenders — the three most liked covers from May — and tweet us your choice of the winner to receive 12 months of independent magazines for 2017.

The latest issue of @popshotmag continues the mission of combining poetry and short stories with illustration. Check the Popshot site to see the animated construction of this cover by @thomas_danthony…

A photo posted by Steven Watson (@stackmagazines) on May 5, 2016 at 12:25am PDT

A snapshot of brutalist Dublin takes the cover of @wearedublinmagazine's fourth issue. Read our interview with founder and editor @conorpurcell on the Stack blog today…

A photo posted by Steven Watson (@stackmagazines) on May 18, 2016 at 12:30am PDT

@noma_bar turns Henry the Hoover into a statement for domestic workers' rights, on the cover of @positivenewsuk

A photo posted by Steven Watson (@stackmagazines) on May 23, 2016 at 12:23am PDT

Decided on your favourite? Tweet it to us — the most heartfelt, weird, or funny answer will get a Stack subscription for 2017