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[dirtydesk]

It's Cloud Town Tuesday The day I post an image from my graphic novel and talk about the process of making it!Months had gone by as I waited eagerly to hear about the next steps to publishing my first graphic novel. When I got an email asking if I wanted to illustrate a case and end pages for the Cloud Town hardcover there was less than a week before those illustrations needed to be in the hands of the book designer. I said yes before I knew for certain what a "case" was--Googling "case" and "book case" did not help. If you want to see a case, check last Tuesday's post, but for now all you need to know is that the case took a pretty long time for me to draw, which left me with 2 days to design 6 end-pages.  

End-pages are those pretty pages that glue a book into a hardcover case (there's a context clue for you), and for me, they had always been a thing of wonder. They are the wrapping of the book--the closest thing we have to music as we fade in and fade out of a comic. I was delighted to have the chance to design my own, but the time crunch was startling. But as they say, necessity is the mother of invention. This is what I came up with, and I'll tell you more about it next week!

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[dirtydesk]

It's Cloud Town Tuesday. The day I post an image from my graphic novel and talk about the process of making it! As proud as I am of the standard Cloud Town cover, there is a secret version hidden beneath the book jacket on the hardcover edition that has a special place in my heart. While there were dozens of drafts and compromises involved with the creation of the primary cover, this "case" cover was done on an extremely short deadline. This means there was no time to do anything but print the illustration exactly the way I drew it. There's an alarming amount of "hurry up and wait" in the publishing business and often the moments with the biggest time crunch produce some of the most interesting results. We will talk more about that next week when we discuss "end pages." Can't wait? Join my email list to get next month's commentary all at once:danielmccloskey.com/jointheclub Or join the Patreon and get time-lapse videos with audio creator commentary: patreon.com/freemoney

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