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...)

[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!