Trade Design


I thought up the orange and green design, but props to Steve Birch for making it all come together. Click to enlarge, so you can read the blurb and check out Cecil (Plain Janes) Castellucci's quote. It might look a bit pixely, but that's because I took a screen cap from the PDF...

When it came to the background I was dithering a little bit as I wanted to have a bold choice and one that could be easily replicated for Volume 2, but didn't want it to be sparse or limited. So I "Andi Watson'ed" it and looked at the way he colours his covers and the way he compositions both front and back designs.

The drawing was done in November last year (yeah, that's how long this has been in the works, folks) and I coloured it 2 months ago. I haven't got a physical copy, yet, but Mr Fed Ex is supposed to be bringing it today.