Cover and Masthead Initial Ideas

One of the most important parts of a comic is the cover. This is what potentially convinces someone to read a book or not. This week I started having a bit of a play around with cover and masthead/logo ideas, based around some of Katy's artwork.

Here were the first few variations I came up with...

While I do quite like the balance of some of these designs, I think with a background as complex as the one Katy and I have chosen, things get lost very easily. To try to combat this, I added a red shadow and drew a yellow bubble around that. This worked for the main text, but the subtitle still got lost. You can see in the second two options that I tried to work around this by adding some yellow airbrush behind it, but still, it didn't work perfectly.