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Influential Graphic Novels Book Stack

A hand-lettered painting featuring ten influential graphic novels

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This hand-lettered book stack painting features ten of the most influential graphic novels of our time. Each book is an existing cover variant, chosen to fill the color scheme I felt best represented the genre. All text is done freehand—no fonts in sight! The composition is then digitally painted, utilizing traditional watercolor techniques.

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Novels featured:

  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

  • This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

  • The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

  • March by John Lewis

  • The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

  • Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley

  • The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

  • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

  • Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

  • Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh

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Young Adult Nostalgia Book Stack

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This hand-lettered book stack painting features eighteen staples of nostalgic Young Adult literature. Each book is an existing cover variant, chosen to fill the color scheme I felt best represented the genre. All text is done freehand—no fonts in sight! The composition is then digitally painted, utilizing traditional watercolor techniques.

Novels featured:

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  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket [1999]

  • Choose Your Own Adventure: Trouble on Planet Earth by R.A. Montgomery [1984]

  • The Boxcar Children, #1 by Gertrude Chandler Warner [1924]

  • Animorphs, #1: The Invasion by K.A. Applegate [1996]

  • Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume [1970]

  • The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin [1978]

  • Holes by Louis Sachar [1998]

  • Matilda by Roald Dahl [1988]

  • The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien [1937]

  • The Babysitter's Club, #1: Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin [1986]

  • The Giver by Lois Lowry [1993]

  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster [1961]

  • Goosebumps, #1: Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine [1992]

  • Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh [1964]

  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg [1967]

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling [1997]

  • Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark by Alvin Schwartz [1981]

  • The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein [1964]

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