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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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Science Fiction Classics Book Stack

This hand-lettered book stack painting features ten staples of classic science fiction literature. All text is done freehand—no fonts in sight! The composition is then digitally painted, utilizing traditional watercolor techniques.

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This hand-lettered book stack painting features ten staples of classic science fiction literature. All text is done freehand—no fonts in sight! The composition is then digitally painted, utilizing traditional watercolor techniques. Art prints are available as a small 5”x7”, a medium 8”x10”, and a large 16”x20”.

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Novels featured:

  • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

  • Dune by Frank Herbert

  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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I comb through reference images of real book spines, pick my favorites, and build a color scheme that mirrors the themes of the genre. I then carefully sketch out the text.

I comb through reference images of real book spines, pick my favorites, and build a color scheme that mirrors the themes of the genre. I then carefully sketch out the text.

From there, I ink the text with traditional inking brushes and paint the whole stack with digital watercolor brushes and traditional painting techniques.

From there, I ink the text with traditional inking brushes and paint the whole stack with digital watercolor brushes and traditional painting techniques.

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Horror Classics Book Stack

This hand-lettered book stack painting features ten staples of classic horror literature. All text is done freehand—no fonts in sight! The composition is then digitally painted, utilizing traditional watercolor techniques.

This hand-lettered book stack painting features ten staples of classic horror literature. All text is done freehand—no fonts in sight! The composition is then digitally painted, utilizing traditional watercolor techniques. Art prints are available as a small 5”x7”, a medium 8”x10”, and a large 16”x20”.

Novels featured:

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Psycho by Robert Bloch

  • The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman

  • The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft

  • The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

  • IT by Stephen King

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I comb through reference images of real book spines, pick my favorites, and build a color scheme that mirrors the themes of the genre. I then carefully sketch out the text.

I comb through reference images of real book spines, pick my favorites, and build a color scheme that mirrors the themes of the genre. I then carefully sketch out the text.

From there, I ink the text with traditional inking brushes and paint the whole stack with digital watercolor brushes and traditional painting techniques.

From there, I ink the text with traditional inking brushes and paint the whole stack with digital watercolor brushes and traditional painting techniques.

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