In comics, when in doubt, blow things up.

The road to my main cover for Love Everlasting #1 was long and tortuous. I drew it pretty early in the development of the series, at a time when I wasn’t yet too familiar with the tone of the comic or the characters. Tom and I had all sorts of ideas for the first cover and for a while, we couldn’t land on anything.

The imperative was to showcase the genre-bending side of the story. It’s a romance comic, but also it’s really not. That was my first sketch:

Tom liked it a lot. I liked it for about 30 seconds and then hated it. I liked the idea of the contrast but the image itself lacked attractiveness (not in the sense of Joan not being attractive, but in the sense of the composition lacking a little pizzazz).

After dropping the idea for #1 and letting it stew for another few months, the concept ended up becoming our store poster! Super glad I didn’t settle for that first image.

Okay so, back to LE#1. I was still in dire need of a cover. I went through a bunch of useless sketches (none of which I kept because seeing bad doodles in my sketchbook depresses the hell out of me) and finally landed on that one.

Please ignore my very crude logo mock up

In comics, when in doubt, blow things up.

Matt Hollingsworth did a heck of a job on this one and I thank him for it.

You might have noticed a chance in tone for the subsequent covers- something that fit Joan and her journey a little more closely- but I think that this cover is a good series image.

My cover A for Love Everlasting #1 is still available for pre-order under July 18 with the Diamond Code JUN220024.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s cover process!

Elsa