comicsprof wrote:
Your usual superb job, James!
I'm particularly impressed by the Astro City and Puma Blues Volumes!
H & R does a very good job- I may call them as it seems their prices are competitive.
I'm having trouble finding issue 23, which is holding up my Puma Blues volume. Grr.




Puma Blues was the same layout as one of the comic covers, and it's always easy to do a nice looking jacket when you've got a beautiful piece of art to work with that has no typography or other clutter.

Astro City--I got creative with the logo, and I'm pretty happy with the result. The front panel is just very minimal--small title and credits and a big cover repro. Hard to go wrong with that kind of simplicity.

Sometimes (especially with Marvel books) you have to embrace the clutter. The Super-Villain Team-up title page is an example, and to a lesser extent the X-Men jacket--boxes and bursts that can't be removed because they cover too much of the illustration, so they simply have to be filled with something that makes sense in the context of a bound volume.

Ah, the meek. Playing the long game.
Sneaky bastards.

--Denise Mina, Field of Blood