Back in the 1987 update of DC's Who's Who series - which was a glossary of all the DC characters post-Crisis on Infinite Earths - McFarlane did a wraparound cover for issue #4. He was on Infinity Inc. at the time, if I'm not mistaken. You can see the front section of that cover here:
Inside the issue was a write-up for The Minutemen, the Golden Age super-team seen in Watchmen. Here's that write-up:
Note at the end how they made a point to say the Watchmen Universe
was NOT a part of the DCU in the above scan
In the new movie, the above image looks like this:
The purpose of the series' wraparound covers was to fit all the characters indexed within on one image. The Minutemen landed on the back cover section of the wraparound, which you can see below with call-out notes for each member. Click to enlarge.
The purpose of the series' wraparound covers was to fit all the characters indexed within on one image. The Minutemen landed on the back cover section of the wraparound, which you can see below with call-out notes for each member. Click to enlarge.
And there you have it. Todd McFarlane of Spawn and Spider-Man fame officially drew Watchmen art for DC.
