We’re printing up some physical copies to pitch and we thought we’d do another piece to fill out the inside cover. A darkened version will actually be printed so as to not distract from the story, but I thought I’d post the original.

Some shortcuts were taken for some of the photos (like reusing a panel from the sample page) but I’m still pretty happy with it.

Here’s the cover and pages for the pitch I’ve been working on for a while now. I was fortunate enough to be really involved with crafting the storyline and I’m very proud of how it’s developing.

And here they are with the lettering:

I’m pretty excited about this project. We’re about to start showing it around to publishers, so I’m crossing my fingers.

Before starting on the new project I wanted to do some test panels to find the right style. It ended up being more of a process-finding exercise than a style thing, but now I feel pretty prepared for the actual pages.

Note: nothing’s going on in the page story-wise. I just made up random crap that I thought would be relevant to the book.

Now that all the design work has been approved, I’ve moved on to working on the 5 page intro we’ll be using for the pitch. Working from Frank’s script, I’ve roughed out the pages to give him an idea of how I’ll handle the storytelling. I made several adjustments from his script to make it flow a little better visually, all of which have been approved. I’m pretty happy with how this sequence/story is fleshing out.

This is way beyond what I would do for thumbs/roughs if it was just for myself, but because I’m working closely with someone else it’s important to make sure I communicate my (and his) ideas across visually as best I can, and still leave room for some things to be changed if necessary.