I gloat, I gloat!

[shadesofmauve]

As y'all are no doubt aware, I'm a graphic designer for a public library system, which is in general slightly less glamorous than people tend to think it is (and since the glamor level starts with 'library', it's fairly low to begin with). I occasionally do fun big jobs, and more often lots and lots and lots of quick-turn-around poster jobs, for events from author talks to story times.

Last week I got a bit of a treat -- comic artist David Lasky is doing a workshop, and the publicity order came across my desk at a time when I wasn't slammed, so I took rather longer than usual and actually made the comic-workshop-poster a comic in its own right, complete with actual drawing (and hand-lettering; now I remember why I hated hand lettering).

Today he commented on the branch's facebook page that he loved the poster. Made my day! :D

Comments

[t-c-da.livejournal.com]

Conratabulations to you!

Do you have a link to your marvellous creation so we can all share in the wowdom and agree with David?

(Not that our congratulations will ever equate to his...)

[shadesofmauve]

Thanks! I added it to the post. :)

[t-c-da.livejournal.com]

That is a cool piece of work.

Fairly simple, but interesting enough to hook in teenagers who may have a hankering to be an artist. Even I'm tempted to be there, but alas the commute is a bit daunting, particularly on my wallet....

[shadesofmauve]

I hope it works for teens -- it's a little cute, but I couldn't do 'cool' without taking a lot more time (cute is easy to draw).

I imagine the commute would be hard on your back, too. Those transoceanic flights usually are!

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Eeeee, that's awesome!

And I love the poster, too, it's adorable. :D

[sinvraal.livejournal.com]

That's great! Love the poster, very cute and effective.

[pyoor_excuse]

The hand lettering was worth it though! It's an awesome poster :)

[westrider.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! Congratulations!

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

That is really a fantastic poster! It does so much for comics, too.

You use it to tell one of the oldest stories in story telling itself with a character that is hilariously adorable and who is about the furthest thing from a modern day super hero you can get. And yet, the trickster animal is like the oldest hero in the book! EVERYONE is familiar with the archetype!

Ah! I have so much to say, but it only muddles the emphasis of how awesome this is!

[shadesofmauve]

YAY!

I was honestly looking forward to showing this to you as much as I was looking forward to the speaker seeing it, because I was pretty sure there was stuff in there you'd like -- bird is telling a simple story (classic, though I hadn't actually thought of that until you pointed it out), bird is telling a self-referential story, the whole thing is a bit meta -- I had fun with it!

And fun drawing ridiculous little Bird, too, of course. The first character sketch that I liked was a ghost (who looked adorably smug holding his comic book) but I remembered that my audience is (young) teens, and was suddenly concerned they'd think it was a smug Sperm instead.