The Bounce Covers - Step-by-step & BIG

A couple of months ago I posted some small images of the cover design process for "The Bounce". After a few requests for an interface that would more easily allow detailed viewing, I've posted a gallery of each cover at each stage. (Click on the images to see full-size versions.)

In the first steps, you can clearly see the concept Photoshop mockups I send to the brilliant David Messina, who then uses them to inspire his gorgeous cover art (shown in the second step). In the third step are the completed covers, where you can see that I sometimes alter a tiny aspect of the color, or zoom in on the art, as well as adding the overlay of logo, ink splatter, and all of the functional elements. This is a process I do with David's approval (he is a fantastic collaborator) before I send the covers to print.

Sex (1-8) - Title Page Spreads

For the ongoing comic book "Sex", I was asked to create a series of double page spreads to act as title pages for each chapter.

These pages needed to evoke the mood of the story, with the protagonist discovering his city as if for the first time. To do this I took a series of photographs of large buildings from a low viewpoint, emphasizing the overwhelming, inhuman scale of them. Then I created a color overlay which would echo the main color used on the cover of each issue, heavily rasterizing each image into a bold duotone.

Overlaying these images is a tightly condensed, oversized title, with the usual legal blocks of text manipulated into tall or long blocks to act as graphic elements en masse.

(The comic is available from comic book stores each month, or online in a digital format.)