Comic Cover Work

I stared the comic cover research on the week that I thought I would, first I went to the library and found all the film-noir like comics and got images of them and I also did the same to my own comics from home.

Next I annotated them spotting things that would help me with my own comic covers, I noticed that I should use big centred text with the title at the top and other info at the bottom, dark black and white colouring with maybe a bit of red and I should colour the fonts to stand out against the background.

For the backgrounds, I used some images from the New York and then made those black and white and very dark, I also stylized them so they looked more like a comic book scene.

For the characters, I got other students to hold props and pose for photos that would fit the characters on the screen and then edited them to look black and white as well as making them more cartoony.

I positioned the villains at the back and the heroes at the front with the hero leader usually at the centre front.

I then chose what I should name the stories and the overall name of the comic series as a whole, I named the comic series Meta City Crime Investigations just like the radio drama and the stories were named after the main plot of that story, each story has a different font and different text colour to stand out against each other.

I wrote on the front cover that the comic comes free with the DVD of the movie with the character files as a bonus to show that this story is marketing the movie because anyone who sees the DVD who is a comic fan might buy the film to get the comic.

The last cover is the back of the book that teases the next story to show that the stories will continue and to get people interested in buying the next book. It also teases the answer to a mystery that went unsolved in the first story while foreshadowing the villain.

I showed other students the finished covers to get feedback, the good feedback I got is that people like the style and they like how unique it is to others, they also noticed continuity in themes on the covers and said the variety is really good with the differences.

The negative feedback I got is that there should have been more characters on the covers and that I should have made the text stand out more while blending it into the background.