The Devil’s A Poser

As we start to get closer to launch I’m going to start giving everybody a break and just look at some simpler images and cover pieces. Lets face it, you gals and guys have been putting up with me running off at the mouth for much longer than I’ve had a right to. Thanks for indulging me, it’s been a lot of fun.

The image on the left is the cover to Daredevil: Father 3. Very early on in the process I decided that I was going to go with an iconic, single character, black, white and red covers for the entire series. It’s not unlike the poster I did to promote the Netflix show for New York Comic Con or the street art that just miraculously showed up in Hell’s Kitchen today. Logo placement was also something I was going to play with allowing the design of the cover to dictate where the logo best belonged as opposed to being locked in to the upper third of the cover. 

Here you can see that I make it a point of having DD look the reader right in the eye, hopefully engaging their interest enough to make them pick the book up from the stands which is half the battle. You’ll also note the new mask with the protective covering over the bridge of the nose.

On the right is page 1 from Daredevil: Father issue 1. There’s an old comic’s adage that I think is reasonably true, but only with respect to paper and monthly comics. It says that you should always make your first and last page of any given issue an eye grabber. The reason behind this thinking is that if a customer in the store happens to get hooked by your cover and decides to quickly page through your book to see if it’s worth spending their hard earned cash on, they almost always land on the first and last page first. So, you stand a better chance at hooking them if those pages have the most eye candy. This was my attempt at eye candy. 

Aside from the splashy opening shot of Daredevil to open this mini series, another of the stylistic choices I made was that I was going to draw DD bigger than life, bigger than he’s ever been drawn, probably since Jack Kirby. If you’ve read the story, what you might’ve found odd or interesting depending on your point of view is that Matt Murdock, out of costume, and much by design, wasn’t as big and blocky as Daredevil. My thinking was that this is how the criminals Hell’s Kitchen envision him. When they recount the tale of how they got their asses kicked, this is how they remember seeing him. Ten feet tall and as wide as a house. This is the myth and legend mixed with the night and fear that make him look like the patron demon-god of water towers to anyone who crosses his path. 

Yeah I know, I think too much about these things.

Behind The Page

Page 1 of issue 1 of

Daredevil: Father

is one of the few pages I kept from that series but recently I gave it away. To whom? You guys will just have to figure that out on your own.

Now you wanna see some real art and not that weak ass stuff I’ve been posting. Check it out.

There’s a reason they called him The King!

I have so much more to learn.