Kaji, the artist who produced the fabulous cover art for the second Heathen City book is back and badder than ever.
I gave him a big-ass laundry list of a trillion things I wanted crammed into one image. He fought back and made a sketch that contained only a billion things, saying that any more would look dumb, like a birthday cake that's also a pretzel and a fish taco. I put my foot down and pretended to cry, but Kaji saw through it - artists are clever like that. I screamed and pulled his hair, he gave me a wedgie and scratched at my eyes and this whole thing was really starting to work for me when his girlfriend came home and we thought it'd just be best if he just drew the cover instead.
Blood, guns, chemistry, logotyped letterhead and the fragmentary scraps of significant characters in the different circumstances in which they find themselves... What more can you ask for?
I like it when a cover encodes the story that's in the book. If there's any chance I'll try to think of some way to even include the ending right on the front page, hidden beneath layers of symbolism.
A mugshot. A mis-developed photo of a hospitalized figure. A feline woman in a pearl necklace shedding a tear. And whoever that scary, fangy gentleman is in the lower right.
Since the last volume was more story centered I hope this one will have a little more yiffy action in it. Not saying I don't like the story, just saying that I like yiff a little more. LOL
<3 the series BTW.
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Heathen City Vol. 3 Cover art by Kaji by alexfvance
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I gave him a big-ass laundry list of a trillion things I wanted crammed into one image. He fought back and made a sketch that contained only a billion things, saying that any more would look dumb, like a birthday cake that's also a pretzel and a fish taco. I put my foot down and pretended to cry, but Kaji saw through it - artists are clever like that. I screamed and pulled his hair, he gave me a wedgie and scratched at my eyes and this whole thing was really starting to work for me when his girlfriend came home and we thought it'd just be best if he just drew the cover instead.
Blood, guns, chemistry, logotyped letterhead and the fragmentary scraps of significant characters in the different circumstances in which they find themselves... What more can you ask for?
I like it when a cover encodes the story that's in the book. If there's any chance I'll try to think of some way to even include the ending right on the front page, hidden beneath layers of symbolism.
A mugshot. A mis-developed photo of a hospitalized figure. A feline woman in a pearl necklace shedding a tear. And whoever that scary, fangy gentleman is in the lower right.
What do you think it means?