If you have been following me in recent weeks you’ll notice a heavy emphasis on my current comic book projects. I’ve got three at present: two webcomics, Pretty Face and Human Wrestler; and Butterfly, one half of a split-comic which serves as a prequel to Deep Penitentiary 6, a pulp novella I released earlier this year. Have I […]
In my last blog post I showed off the pulp fiction and grindhouse cinema influences behind the Deep Penitentiary 6 cover. However, it takes a skilled artist to take the concept and bring it to life. For this project I chose Diego Galindo after glimpsing his ripping cover for issue 4 of the comic Nancy in Hell on […]
When I release a book the outside cover is just as important to me as the inside text, both forming a complete concept as an art object. I really want the reader to judge the book by the cover. An example is in my Paradise Earth series where I pay grim homage to the Watchtower’s […]