A little update on Polly Guo's Houdini & Holmes [which I did logo design/layout for]; it sadly never ended up arriving at San Diego Comic-Con, however instead you can now pre-order the first issue from Polly herself, with full details at her blog.
From her blog: Houdini & Holmes written and drawn by Polly Guo 25 pages, 50 copies (I'll order more if there are more people that want it, but it might take longer) $4.00 USD + shipping
* Shipping is $2.00 to the US and $4.90 to ship anywhere else * For $1 more I'll include a sketch with your order!
Before you comment saying "oh wow, you can actually draw people!" I should note, I DID NOT DRAW THIS. But thanks for thinking anyways. This is the cover to my friend, Polly Guo's new comic book, Houdini & Holmes, the first part of which will be available at this year's San Diego Comic-Con!
Update: The comic will be available for purchase in the Small Press Area, table number P-11. Make sure you buy it!
I'm really pleased with Polly's finalization of this cover, having seen it prior to the rad coloring job she did; and overall the text is very fitting for the style and mood. However, I made some flat-color mock-ups myself when I was testing out the logo design:
The left image has the original black/white mock-up, with three test color palettes. The right image was my final mock-up, after some discussing with Polly, which included the issue numbering and adjusted ampersand (the "&").
There's parts I like about both my mock-ups and Polly's final version, but regardless, the cover alone was awesome enough whether it was colored or not. I'm just glad I was able to help out in some way. But yeah, this is me throwing my hat into the logo design ring, contact me if you ever need assistance in that domain, or coloring for that matter.
Seriously, do yourself a favor and watch these films, because even though they're second year films, they're infinitely better than all the things I saw at SVA's thesis screening this year ... and I'm not just saying that because I'm in the special thanks for the second one.
First off is "Deep Sea Aquarium" by Polly Guo, which I tried to make better titles for.., but regardless, it's a pretty awesome film and freaks the hell out of me every time I watch it. Which is good, cause that doesn't happen often.
This next one is "A Tale of Honor and Glory" by Matt Marblo, which despite the suggested two minute assignment length, he did a whopping 4:13 film, and it's radtastic.
As to why I'm in the special thanks... uh, logo consultant, let's call it that.
Keep in mind, these were made in ONE semester, and are in full color/sound. The thesis films I saw had a whole year to work on them, and yet 80% were either unfinished or just awful.
And as for MY final film, I won't post it publicly online just yet, I'm looking into the film festival route first, and then I'll consider it. The main issue is that the film is based on a much larger project of mine, and if I post the film it's going to force me to post the other pieces which takes a lot of explaining... for the concept at least.
Not to offend other classmates whose work was also good, but these two I know are online, and definitely require viewing. I just hope I can promote my own film just as well when I eventually get it online.
UPDATE: My other friend, Deena Beck, just put her film, "Don't Follow Strange Things," online and on her brand new blog, which I've linked on the side:
And I have to give an extra special thanks to Deena, because had she not kindly let me borrow her computer in the last few days of production, I would have never finished because of my recent computer failure.
