Just wrapped up a great job for the SF weekly's dating issue featuring a cover, full page and 3 spot illustrations. Andrew, the AD, gave me freedom to have fun with the topic so I pushed the envelope as much as I could.Above are my three initial sketches which were all very loose. I first toyed with the romance comic idea here depicting the gimp kissing the woman.
Once it was decided to run with the comic idea, I focuses more on the gimp depicting him in two settings. 'Gimp Love' was used just as placement until we could decide on a title for the comic. The overall layout using the SF logo, verticle 'featuring' bar and the comic title are coming together above.
Above, the AD and I have finalized the layout of the comic and it's characters. The title and thought bubbles of each person are still left open.
'Tales of Strange Romance' was chosen for the title of the comic along with final changes to the 'featuring' bar.
And here is 'Sad Gimp' in all his glory. Will he EVER find love?
