The cover for Phill from GCHQ
I have wanted to post in the COMIC BOOKS fan/pro community for a while, but I haven't had anything to post. Now I finally have finished the cover for the printed version of Phill from GCHQ, which I funded through Kickstarter earlier this year.
So without further ado here they are:
The motive of the frontpage is taken from early in the comic where Phill, the main character, is possessed by three evil Celtic Gods in the server room cellars under the GCHQ headquarter in Cheltenham in the UK.
On the back one can see in the corners Celtic trinity knots, and in the bottom above the ISBN code a Dara Knot, old symbols of mostly Irish origin.
As Phill from GCHQ is a European comic it is in the A4 format. I hope that the Americans who ordered it will find a way to fit it into their comic book shelfs.
The artwork is, like most of what I create, made with Krita, but the ornaments on the back is first handdrawn in Krita and then traced into vector graphics with Inkscape, the application I also use for putting text in the bubbles.
All this means that I will soon take up working on Phill again. For anybody who is in doubt what Phill from GCHQ is you can see the promotional video I made for the Kickstarter here: (yes, I play the piano myself)
The Grand Promotional Video
Oh my goodness you are the real deal! Love your promotional video. What a voice! Love the mask! You even play the piano! Excellent work and good deeds.
I am the real me. Happy that you like my voice because my eldest daughter have made fun of it and my English pronunciation for weeks... When she think I am too smart, she says, "Hello, my name is Katharsisdrill..." Danes are in general good at English and any hint of local dialect is considered grandfatherish.
Awesome! Really digging the aesthetic. Reminds me of R crumb
Hey! Long time no see. I mostly post on Hive now after the Steem chain broke and got forked, but I have posted about Phill here, so I thought I would share it on Steemit also.