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I LOVE making books!

This is the sixth book I will have made, and I have gradually fallen in love with the process. Obviously the story and art of a comic is #1 priority but that was 98% completed before I even launched a kickstarter to print the book. 

Now comes a new challenge, and I’ve found such a creative joy in the small details of book design and production. One of my favourite things with the Jack Astro book was getting to design the end papers on the hardback book. It’s one of many design elements that can add so much, and if done correctly elevate a book to an art object in my opinion. 

Obviously this comic collection is much smaller than Jack Astro at only 32 pages so a hardback option would be ridiculous! However the printers I am using allow printing on the inside front and back cover which I plan to make full use of.

Sketchbook

Digging through sketchbooks from the early creation stages of Warped, I came across these grafitti experiments from when I was coming up with title design for the project. I think these might make a very cool design element on the inside covers so I thought I would share my thought process here as I’m going along 😀 

Thanks to the new backers who hopped aboard over the weekend. We’re creeping towards that first stretch goal… I’ve got the next one planned out just in case. Fingers crossed! Please share the campaign with anyone you think might like the book. Thanks all!

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Warped is an all ages comic strip about a doomed spaceman and his robot sidekick. 

Our hapless hero explores strange new worlds, has troubles with transporters, fun with flags, and encounters a variety of alien creatures. In the course of these mini episodes our spaceman hero dies in almost every single strip. Hence the name Warped – both for its sci-fi connotations and its allusions to a sense of humour. 

I am putting together a printed comic book collection of the first season of Warped Comics. It will be 32 pages, softcover, 260x170mm, in full colour. It will be printed on lovely recycled natural paper which will give the comic a vintage off-white finish which I’m very excited about.

Warped is a spin-off from my Jack Astro Comic. It’s a completely stand-alone comic strip so no prior knowledge of Jack Astro is necessary but it does broaden the canon if you’re familiar with the original story. There is an idea in that book where an infinite number of Jack’s are sent to an infinite number of galaxies in splinter dimensions via the aptly named, Infinity Drive. Warped explores what happened to all of these alternate Jack’s. 

I will be printing some extra stock of this book to take to comic conventions, but the kickstarter will be the best price so backers who help make it happen also get the best possible value. 

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