Breakfast Cereal Box Homage Covers
Cereal: A Staple Big Business for Breakfast
Breakfast cereal is big business. In 2018, Americans alone consumed $8.5 billion in breakfast cereals. Nearly 90% of those sales are made by the Big Four: General Mills, Kellogg, Post Holdings (POST) and Quaker Foods. The majority of cereals are marketed towards children, with a surprisingly robust psychological marketing playbook which uses bright, colorful characters – for example Captain Crunch, the Trix rabbit, Tony the Tiger, the Flinstones & Snap! Crackle! & Pop! – to generate excitement for these products in the minds of consumers.
Adults in Western societies, who purchase ready-to-eat cold cereals for themselves and their families, have grown up with these cereal brands and characters, just as they have grown up with comics and comic book characters. So it should come as no surprise that comic artists sometimes homage or parody breakfast cereal products, using similarly bright and colorful characters poised over a bowl of powerful, sugary cereal.
(As an aside, check out the disturbingly scientific reasoning behind the positioning of the eyes of our beloved cereal mascots and the placement of specific cereals on the shelves at EurekAlert!.)
Source: Kiplinger
Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths & Legends Quarterly #6 (Paul Green Camelot Crisp Cereal Cosplay Z-Rated Variant) – December 2021
Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths & Legends Quarterly #6 (Paul Green Camelot Crisp Cereal Cosplay Variant) – December 2021
Grimm Spotlight: Cinderella vs Zombies (Paul Green Franken Child Cereal Cosplay Z-Rated Variant) – November 2021
Grimm Spotlight: Cinderella vs Zombies (Paul Green Franken Child Cereal Cosplay Variant) – November 2021
Grimm Fairy Tales (Vol 2) #52 (Paul Green Van Chocula Cereal Z-Rated Variant) – October 2021
Grimm Fairy Tales (Vol 2) #50 (Paul Green Poison Apple Snacks Cereal Variant) – August 2021
Grimm Fairy Tales (Vol 2) #49 (Paul Green Flirty Rebels Cereal Z-Rated Variant) – July 2021
Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths & Legends Quarterly #4 (Paul Green Super Sugar Chicks Cereal Z-Rated Variant) – June 2021
Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths & Legends Quarterly #4 (Paul Green Super Sugar Chicks Cereal Variant) – June 2021
Grimm Tales of Terror Quarterly #3 (Paul Green Tricks Cereal Z-Rated Variant) – April 2021
Grimm Fairy Tales (Vol 2) #46 (Paul Green CinnaDjinn Toast Crunch Cereal Z-Rated Variant) – March 2021
Grimm Fairy Tales (Vol 2) #46 (Paul Green CinnaDjinn Toast Crunch Cereal Variant) – March 2021
Grimm Spotlight: Black Knight vs Lord of the Flies #1 (Paul Green Bloody Snacks Cereal Risque Variant) – February 2021
Grimm Spotlight: Black Knight vs Lord of the Flies #1 (Paul Green Bloody Snacks Cereal Variant) – February 2021
Robyn Hood: Iron Maiden #1 (Paul Green Cute Loops Cereal Z-Rated Variant) – January 2021
Batman: The Adventures Continue #5 (Nakayama Flower Flakes Cereal Variant) – December 2020
Robyn Hood: Justice #5 (Paul Green Nice Crispies Cereal Z-Rated Variant) – November 2020
Grimm Fairy Tales (Vol 2) #41 (NYCC Honey Hut Heroes Cereal Paul Green Variant) – October 2020
Batman: The Adventures Continue #3 (Nakayama Harley Pows! Cereal Variant) – October 2020
Batman: The Adventures Continue #2 (Nakayama Mister J’s Cereal Variant) – September 2020
Belle vs Black Knight #1 (Paul Green Frosted Frights Cereal VCon Z-Rated Variant) – June 2020
Belle vs Black Knight #1 (Paul Green Frosted Frights Cereal San Diego Con Exclusive) – June 2020
Red Agent: Island of Dr. Moreau #5 (Paul Green Creature Crunch Cereal Z-Rated Showcase Variant) – June 2020
Red Agent: Island of Dr. Moreau #5 (Paul Green Creature Crunch Cereal Zenbox Variant) – June 2020
Van Helsing vs League of Monsters #1 (Paul Green Gretel’s Charms Cereal Z-Rated Showcase Variant) – February 2020
Van Helsing vs League of Monsters #1 (Paul Green Gretel’s Charms Cereal Variant) – February 2020
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Vol 6) #98 (Mike Vasquez Jenni Krunch Cereal Variant) – September 2019
Back to the Future #1 (Phil Postma Golden Apple Flux Flakes Cereal Variant) – October 2015
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