I love making comics. What I don’t love making? Covers for my comics. Comics are about flow and pacing, about a selection of images that carry you through a story. My drawing style is pretty simple - each book is made up of hundreds or thousands of drawings, so I need to be efficient. I don’t want the reader to get hung up on visual details - I want to carry them as easily through the story as if they were reading prose. (this isn’t a hard rule for comics, by the way, just my personal preference)
Yep, I think the right sketches and cover were selected. It conveys the story perfectly with one picture— two people from two different worlds/mindsets meeting at a point and finding love in one another.
Your dislike of dealing with covers made me think of having to write a two-page synopsis for a novel proposal (which I’m sure you have had to do numerous times.) It was such a big story (with a lot of parts of me in it), and trying to condense it was soooo painful. There we so many things I felt were important that I had to say, and I resented having to do it.
I love this cover! It really caught my eye and perfectly puts across the entire premise. I love coming up with cover concepts but as a writer I have the easy job when it comes to that, ha
This is so cool! I’ve always been interested in cover design for novels, but comic/graphic novel covers have never really been something I’ve thought about until recently. Anyway, the sketch chosen has that comfy mix of softness and discovery, it feels very cosy, which is always a positive! I definitely think that it was the right design to go with, though initial sketch A does look really cool.
Gosh I absolutely love the gloss cover for the final work. I really did think ‘Sappho’ with some of the poses and then was pleasantly surprised to see some Greek imagery! Always lovely to read these thanks so much!
Welcome to Daisy Gaeta, and thanks for contributing! (May I ask preferred pronouns?) And thank you for "In the Telling," which has been irresistible reading. The way you break down your decision-making process and describe with such clarity and craft. The open window to your learnings and firm convictions, while leaving your own openness to alternatives, exemplifies the artist's continual dialogue with self, with the work, with the implicit crowd of aesthetic influences. I look forward to these popping up in my inbox. Thanks!
Yep, I think the right sketches and cover were selected. It conveys the story perfectly with one picture— two people from two different worlds/mindsets meeting at a point and finding love in one another.
Your dislike of dealing with covers made me think of having to write a two-page synopsis for a novel proposal (which I’m sure you have had to do numerous times.) It was such a big story (with a lot of parts of me in it), and trying to condense it was soooo painful. There we so many things I felt were important that I had to say, and I resented having to do it.
I love this cover! It really caught my eye and perfectly puts across the entire premise. I love coming up with cover concepts but as a writer I have the easy job when it comes to that, ha
This is so cool! I’ve always been interested in cover design for novels, but comic/graphic novel covers have never really been something I’ve thought about until recently. Anyway, the sketch chosen has that comfy mix of softness and discovery, it feels very cosy, which is always a positive! I definitely think that it was the right design to go with, though initial sketch A does look really cool.
This is so awesome and informative!
Thank you for these blog posts, they're some of the best parts of my week and I always look forward to reading them!
Gosh I absolutely love the gloss cover for the final work. I really did think ‘Sappho’ with some of the poses and then was pleasantly surprised to see some Greek imagery! Always lovely to read these thanks so much!
Welcome to Daisy Gaeta, and thanks for contributing! (May I ask preferred pronouns?) And thank you for "In the Telling," which has been irresistible reading. The way you break down your decision-making process and describe with such clarity and craft. The open window to your learnings and firm convictions, while leaving your own openness to alternatives, exemplifies the artist's continual dialogue with self, with the work, with the implicit crowd of aesthetic influences. I look forward to these popping up in my inbox. Thanks!