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Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me -- Covers for Issues 1 through 4 by Vic Malhotra.

I’m pretty pretty pretty happy with this batch of covers (the 5th one too, but that won’t be solicited for another month, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.... it’s hot fiyah! -- Spoiler...)

There’s an alternate first issue cover that I did and trashed after it was basically done. My editor probably thinks I’m crazy for that. It might show up here or in the trade.. yeah probably in the trade for sure.

This is the first time I’ve done the logo myself, so that was a cool experience. Hopefully a bunch of stores don’t overlap books from that side.

Process behind a recent cover.

The fine folks at Comix Tribe asked me to do a variant cover for their upcoming hard boiled "surf noir" book called CHUM.

Written by friend and up and coming writer Ryan K Lindsay with gorgeous art by Sami Kivela and colours by Mark Dale.

The first issue is in stores this Wednesday (April 27th)

EDIT: I've heard that something happened at the printer and the first issue will be in stores on May 4th.... so look out for issue 1 this Wednesday or next.

Thumbnails

To focus on character or location? The location ones are a bit understated where the surfer with gun image gets the idea of the series across simply and quickly. So the decision was easy.

Inks

Flipped the composition around so the Comix Tribe logo wouldn't obscure any important elements.

The pencils for this were nearly non existent and most of the work was done in the inks. Playing black shapes against each other to see how far I could go design wise.

Colours

Changed this from my initial thumbnail's colours to simplify and add more oomph.

One colour seems to always work, especially when the inks are doing so much of the heavy lifting. White highlights emphasis form and separate elements.  

Final Cover

Publisher and book logos.

Some designs for a comic adaption of a book series that never went through.

These are from a while back, so I think it’s okay if I put these up here.

Haven’t been scanning much of the stuff lately. Lots of designs and layouts and life drawing/on the spot sketching.

Took a pic and added photoshop colours to this thing today.

Magik vs Dormammu Commission