The process of creating a cover for a book is pretty different to comics. In comics, you do some roughs, send to an editor, get an approval and boom! cover done! In books… horrifically more complicated. Graphic designers get involved
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Author: PJH
PJ Holden is a comic artist and this is his blog.
The Leopard of Lime Street
There’s something a bit odd how I frequently find myself landing gigs I’d wanted, but only after three other people (or two in this case) had already had a go. Anyways, this is a fun/ easy gig so should be
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Current Setup
Here’s my computer setup for work. Acer Asus 4k 27″ Monitor (which I can show 3 roughly print sized pages on across ways) cost: £179 (I think I picked this up as a bargain, it was the last of two
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Journal 23/Jan/2023 – 29/Jan/2023
Phew, whatta week. Pencilled 1 page, inked 24. Good week. Good week. Bad Magic was announced, so you know, that’s good. I’m about 44 pages behind the ball on finishing it, if I have a month next month like this
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Holden and Reppion
Dunno if they’ll end up being used, but here’s some sketches for the folklore book that’s being collected…
Folklore “thursday” : Selkie…
We needed another page for the book, and specifically something selkie related, so John sent me a tweet and I turned it into a metaphor about the fleeting nature of tv fame… I dunno if that’s what anyone expected, but
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Journal Week 16/Jan/23 – 22nd Jan 23
This week I pencilled a somewhat staggering 27 pages. An entire chapter of Bad Magic (the graphic novel) and a six page strip. Next week is all inks. Owing to the way the page count on bad magic has gone,
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Panel layout
This is the last page of the leopard from lime street ep8 – a particualrly tricky one to figure out the layout for, two things I’d like to see in BIG panels, and then two sort of end panels. I
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Monster Fun
A couple of years ago, Keith Richards -editor of Monster Fun- tasked me with repbooting a strip from the old monster fun for a one off brand new monster fun. I really enjoyed doing it, but I suspect while the
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Weekly Diary 9/jan/-15th/jan 2023
So, in total, this week I pencilled five pages and inked 11 – so you could think of that as the equivalent of 16 half pages or 8 pages of finished art in total this week. A decent haul, but
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