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Stink and the Title Recreation That Definitely Does Not

By sjvernon on April 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

Back in February a friend of mine, Kurt Belcher, contacted me and asked if I could recreate a comic logo for him as part of a project that he was working. Stink is published by Source Point Press, and they had a title/logo designed by Sheldon Vella, but needed a scalable version for use on the book title, spine, and various promotional materials. It was a fun design to recreate, even though it was not a design of my own.

Contents of the graphic novel itself are by Chuck Messinger and Kurt Belcher. The story is of a post-apocalyptic world where three weird friends – chain-smoking unicorn Ray, failed fairy godfather Bundy, and evil cursed prince Michael – make their way in the aftermath. Check it out for sale now on Amazon!

For anyone who picks up this book, please let me know. Also remember, if you’d like an original commission by me or would like to hire me as an Illustrator or Letterer, please use the Contact page and let me know as much as you can about your request.

Posted in: Logo Design | Tagged: apocalypse, Chuck Messinger, drawing, fairy, Godfather, Kurt Belcher, lettering, logo design, recreate, Source Point Press, Stink, unicorn

Pokemon No!

By sjvernon on August 1, 2016 | 2 Comments

Okay, it’s another popular craze in which I, yet again, am not partaking… but it’s getting harder to deny Pokemon Go is a thing. Too many people making the news using the app on their mobile devices for me to ignore it any longer. So… I have a few ideas what I can do and have some fun with the concept. But first, I needed to recreate their official logo design, and that’s just what I did this weekend!

Whenever I’m planning a parody of something, as usual, I like to start with a clean reproduction of the original as I’ve done here with the Pokemon Go logo. It’s actually a pretty dynamic and attractive logo, and I hope I’ve served it well with my recreation. You can expect to see some form of parody show up elsewhere on my blog in the not-so-distant future… count on it! 🙂

Remember, if you’d like an original commission by me or would like to hire me as an Illustrator, please use the Contact page and let me know as much as you can about your request.

Posted in: Logo Design | Tagged: apps, craze, drawing, illustration, logo design, logos, mobile devices, Nintendo, parody, Pokemon, Pokemon Go, popular, recreate

Local Comic Book Storefront Work-in-Progress

By sjvernon on June 4, 2016 | 2 Comments

I have an idea for a thing… that I will not get into right now… but something I wanted to do was use some inspired-by-real-life local locations with this. Given what I know and what you do not know, the place to start was with an old comic book store. Capitol Comics of Raleigh, NC, opened back in 1986 on Hillsborough St in downtown Raleigh, NC. Many years later they opened another location out past Crabtree Valley Mall, but a few years back they closed the original location and consolidated to just the newer one. Sadly even the building where the original location opened no longer exists! I worked at the original store location many years ago, and the owner Ken Pleasant has always been a class guy. I’ve also met and worked with lots of good people that I met through the years working and shopping at Capitol Comics.

I believe I’m mostly done here with the front of the store, complete with trademark easily-recognizable Spider-Man sign. There was originally an awning across the front of the store but I can’t find any pictures of that at the moment, so that is in the TBD later pile for now. I’d also like to draw the right-hand side of the store and I have plans to also pull back a little and create a semi-perspective look because that will allow me to also show the building next door that has a classic bulldozer sign on its roof. For those interested, below is a closer look at the Spider-Man sign, which I also have attempted to recreate as close to the original as my available source photographs would allow:

I don’t want to say too much about my eventual plans for all this… but it could involve some further decorating of the insides of the store (as seen through the windows) and some looks at the interior as well. Stay tuned! I’m hoping to keep a sliver of the past alive through the creation of a whole ‘nother thing as I get the time to work on it. Please let me know what you think (especially if you’re local to Raleigh, NC and are familiar with this store) and remember, if you’d like an original commission by me or would like to hire me as an Illustrator, please use the Contact page and let me know as much as you can about your request.