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]

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!