2018 magazine covers in review

This concludes my annual review of magazine covers, including trends and controversies.

Here is a listing of articles in this year’s series:

Magazines bash Facebook, Amazon and Google in cover treatments (Dec. 12, 2018)

Make-unders and no-makeup magazine covers gain ground (Dec. 13, 2018)

Lindsay Lohan as trashy Disney princesses (Dec. 14, 2018)

Magazines that printed their last issues in 2018 (Dec. 15, 2018)

Notable new magazines in 2018: Fangoria, HelloGiggles and Grow by Facebook (Dec. 16, 2018)

Bare-naked ladies: Nude magazine covers in 2018 (Dec. 17, 2018)

The most divisive Vogue magazine covers of 2018 (Dec. 18, 2018)

The most controversial magazine covers of 2018 (Dec. 22, 2018)

Related reading:

2017 magazine covers in review (Dec. 19, 2017)

Photos: Stylist magazine cover with creepy humanoid robot Sophia (see article by the Daily Mail); covers for Elle Russia and Maxim.