Artemis Draws

I signed up to attend my first ever comics/graphic novel festival, as either an attendee or an exhibitor. Not having been to these things before, I’m at a loss about what to expect and how best to get noticed if one happens to be flogging a book. I decided that one must have a poster of some sort to draw attention to one’s meagre table space. I’ve already ordered my business cards from VistaPrint a while back and they will be delivering sometime this week, as long as the postal service doesn’t let me down…. So after the Easter break, I sat down yesterday morning and used Photoshop CS4 to tinker around with and came up with this poster design, utilising similar colours to my book cover, but using photos of the actual paintings since I don’t expect any major copyright issues would arise from just this one publicity poster! The extra colours do make it look a tad better than my original book cover design, but alas not a lot can be done about that now. If I am lucky enough to have to order a reprint…. it will have a different cover! I went to FastFlow Printing, a fantastic little shop in the Covent Garden area and got a couple of nice, glossy, A3-sized posters printed ready for Comica on 21st April. I also considered doing a T-shirt but decided against it in the end. So the ball is slowly rolling. The books have yet to arrive from the printer’s but since I haven’t heard a peep from Rich, I can assume (against my usually neurotic vein) that all is well.

My publicity poster for Comica Comiket