A few quick updates! I recently offered to design mock-up book cover designs for people interested on my Twitter account, and a few people took me up on it. I’ve added the results of the design exercise to the gallery section. All of the covers were put together pretty quickly as an exercise as I work on other projects, with no more than an afternoon or two working on and off on each. The cover for seen here took the longest, but after a few false starts it’s the one I’m happiest with! The Grey Knight is a dark fantasy novel by one of my fellow FinePrint clients (yay!), Chris Finch, and has a bunch of really appealing visuals… ultimately I went with the city of Highbranch, since I had read about it on his site a month or two ago, and had been drawn to it even then. The cover for Hanging by a Thread came from a concept belonging to C. L. Steele (“a graphic novel about coming out as a lesbian after marriage”) while Jupiter’s Goat was pretty much just a phrase I liked. ;) I have a few more ideas in mind, so I may update again with those soon.

Also, the list of literary agents who represent graphic novels has been updated! Brenda Bowen has joined Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, and you can read an article about what she’s interested in at Publishers Weekly. Take a look if you’re a graphic novel artist/writer interested in finding an agent.

“Bowen will represent authors and illustrators of children’s books for all ages (preschool to teen) as well as, in her words, “graphic novelists, animators and maybe a surprise element or two.”