EVA BOOK
Here it is – the 240 page luxury hardcover book collecting all the hard boiled short stories about Eva’s everyday work and leisure in the black glass streets of her city, splattered with blood and washed with rain. Many of them never before published in English, or only in very crappy English.
The book contains all the Eva stories so far:
- Asphalt Mirrors, Lead Lips, Odd Tuesday, Glass Rain, Flashback! Postman Blues, She’s a Killing Machine, Asbestos Hearts, Electric Tsunamis
… and many sketches and illustrations!
Get your copy in my gumroad store!
There was plenty of drama with the printing of this book. At first I received a full edition of books with misprinted covers – I’d ordered shiny varnish for parts of the front cover, but the printers had printed the varnish as colour (100% magenta lol).
It turned out they had changed their printing process just when I placed my order, and don’t offer varnish on hardcover books with round spines anymore. That partly explains the misprint, though they should have noticed. They took responsibility for the error and printed a full edition of corrected books free of charge, without arguing, which was very nice of them.
HOWEVER, it means that now I have a huge amount of boxes full of books that I don’t actually have storage space for!
So please help me lol and buy lots of books from me!!! T^T
Especially Eva books and Driftwood books, which take up the most space in my storage and will look absolutely stunning in your book shelf! I’m selling the misprinted Eva copies for extra cheap/”choose your own price”.
The two versions only have different covers. It’s kind of difficult to capture in photos, but the magenta colour on the cover really is smash bang full on 100% magenta, partly overlaid on red and black.
Also, the text on the back cover of the misprinted book is not centered (I was able to fix that thanks to the misprint!).
In any case, the books are really beautiful. I’m very happy with the round spine hard covers and the nice thick creamy paper inside. ♥ (So get your copy if you haven’t yet!)
Style Challenge
Ainur just did an awesomepants style homage, with Goldenbird heroine Mayann drawn in different artists’ styles, and I just had to do one too!
(And I just found out through newwavefeminism that it’s a thing – #stylechallenge was originally started by Autumn @beautifulness87 on Instagram!)
(Click to enlarge)
So I’ve drawn Eva and Willie, trying to imitate the styles of five different artists whose comics have influenced me deeply, three from the US and two from Japan. I think I finally got warmed up by the time I got to the last one …? V^(oo)^;V
Guess which is which! :3 In alphabetical order: Charles Burns, Debbie Drechsler, Jaime Hernandez, Jiro Matsumoto, Ai Yazawa.
Fun facts: I never realised until now that Jaime Hernandez rarely if ever draws earrings on his characters? It’s really interesting what peculiar ways the artists have of drawing certain anatomical details, like ear whorls or hair structure. Debbie Drechsler and Jiro Matsumoto were the most fun to imitate, because their styles are the most different and the most similar to my own, respectively.
Sketchdump!
Recently I finished this sketchbook, with its slightly questionable cover:
Here are some previously unpublished sketches from that book! V^(oo)^V
China White
A while ago I threatened to make “more serious” comics in watercolours. That’s what I’m doing right now!
I made some disastrous colouring mistakes with the first page and had to edit it a lot in Photoshop afterwards.
Just in time after I’d half destroyed it, I remembered one of Joann Sfar’s musings about watercolours – something like that you shouldn’t try use “natural”/”realistic” colours. And I figured that green can basically go fuck itself …
Adhering to that, the second page was even more fun and I’m quite pleased with how it came out. :3
SHu SHu SHu SHu SHu SHu SHu SHu
In one of the women’s toilet booths at Badehaus:
What I think happened there:
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(Shu is from the comics about Eva …)
