Cover story: 20 years of G2 fronts Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From Sarajevo to Johnny Depp and the moon landings, the best, funniest and most controversial G2 covers

from the last two decades Wed 17 Oct 2012 13.45 CEST First published on Wed 17 Oct 2012 13.45 CEST

Veronica Horwell reports from Sarajevo for the very first G2 cover story, 12 October 1992 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 'It was not only larger but much more recent than I had imagined' … Sebastian Faulks visits the battlefields of the first world war, 15 September 1993

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 'It is not uncommon for people in their late 20s still to be living like children with their parents' … G2 goes to China, 9 November 2004 Photograph:

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Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 'Dear Limey assholes' … the infamous Clark County G2 cover, 13 October 2004 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 'To be alive to fashion is to understand the importance of the present tense' … Linda Grant on fashion, 21 September 2004 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 'There are 20,000 faith healers in the UK, nearly twice the number of Anglican priests' … 6 October 1997 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Gillian Wearing's cover design that caused many readers to choke on their cornflakes. Features editor Ian Katz later apologised for ruining everyone's

breakfast, 7 January 2003 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter G2 assembles the greatest pub quiz team of all time, 17 April 2002 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Small is beautiful … the first ever Berliner issue, 12 September 2005 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 'He took the whole thing in very good spirits …' John Updike on the G2 bus in Hay-on-Wye, 1 June 2004 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter G2 hijacks Olafur Eliasson's Tate Modern exhibition, 30 October 2003 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Meeting the last survivors of the International Brigade, 10 November 2000 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter John Prescott G2 front cover, 7 March 2011 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter G2 front cover the day after 9/11, 12 September 2001 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter 'Depp looks like he should be in Bon Jovi' … Decca Aitkenhead's interview, 7 November 2011 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The aftermath of the London bombings, 8 July 2005 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The day George Bush was elected president, 4 November 2004 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The day Barack Obama was elected president, 6 November 2008 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Eamon Collins: inside the IRA, 7 April 1997 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Investigating life in Britain's prisons, 29 January 2001 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Remembering the Blitz, 7 September 2010 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Inside the NHS, 11 May 2006 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The fuss over Viagra, 30 July 1998 Photograph: The Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter G2 goes camping, 9 September 2010 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Producing G2 from Brighton beach, 25 July 2003 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Milibands' fight to be Labour leader, 18 May 2010 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter James Meek on the Royal Mail, 2 July 2011 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Moon landings, 40 years on, 2 July 2009 Photograph: Guardian

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Alexis Petridis meets Odd Future, 16 March 2012 Photograph: Guardian

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