Bookmark designs for the graphic novel series I'm making. Inspired by the icons from Monster Hunter, but if anyone knows a better classification for this sort of art, please let me know!
Writing this in case anybody who finds themselves trying to publish a graphic novel gets stuck in this part I did when editing last year:
If you look at IngramSpark's guidelines, they'll tell you that if you are making pages with bleed, you need to add a white strip for proper book binding. Well, if you try to add this white strip, it'll get cut out, and your pages will be mangled despite you following the guidelines. I almost gave up at this point because I didn't know what else to do. I followed the guidelines to a T, but still had issues.
I decided to just try adding a little off-white mark in the white borders so that it might not be cut out during the assembly process, and to my positive surprise, it worked.
I was looking around online for anybody else who had the same issue as me, but couldn't find anything. So, if you're in my previous shoes now, hope this helps.
Just got the prologue to my series published last year after getting positive feedback from Tim Seeley! Currently working on the next volume, which I hope to publish late next year! What's it about? The end of the prologue leaves it to each reader to ponder. And where will it go? Let's set up the foundation and continue building it from there. Most of the story will violate conventional expectations of how things should go, and even the physical copies, as seen in the book, are meant to reflect that in the most sincere, experimental ways possible.
126 pages, all illustrated and written by me: I plan to make 12 more volumes because I want to make this ambitious story come full circle with some huge twists, and I also like to torment myself.
I like to hear what readers say, and I am planning to host a trivia event about the prologue. Let me know in the comments if you want more information!
Loosely based off of the Monster Hunter Icons: Using these to create bookmarks because they're fun.