Slow progress on the second issue of Folly Ground continues. This is the inside back cover featuring yet another advert for Lame Science, the No. 1 unscientific magazine in Folly Ground. It was really good fun to design. I wish the rest of the artwork, drawings, etc. were as easy as that to put together. By the way, the advert gives a few clues as to the theme of the forthcoming issue.
Website cover page
The image below is (was) a design for a new cover page for the website. Sadly, given the responsive template I am using, I was not able to make it work well for all the different screen formats. So here it is on the blog instead. Regarding the cover page, I have had to resort to a much simpler design instead. If you haven’t seen it, just click on ‘Home’ on the menu above.
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Stranger than fiction
More artwork from the forthcoming ‘Folly Ground’ issue. In these pages, Luci has an unexpected encounter in an unexpected place. But is it real?
Apparent Magnitude redux
Artwork page from the still in-progress second issue of ‘Folly Ground’.
Last summer, I had written at some length about ‘Apparent Magnitude’, Folly Ground’s cult sci-fi tv show whose plot is based on the myth of Pollux and Castor. The idea was still in its inception at the time, but as work has progressed on this soon-to-come issue, the show has become a key element of the story. You can see the original post along with some initial artwork and rough drawings of Pollux and Castor here.
Underground journeys
'Listen to Slayer'
From the Sunday Folly Herald
Sunday, 3 May 19—
Slayer advice
A man claims that he was visited by his recently deceased relative. Stunt Double’s favourite aunt, Griselda Phlox, died peacefully in her sleep a couple of weeks ago.
Mr. Double, a former acrobat who is now working as a flying doctor for ‘Flying Doctors Emergencies’ in the Random Plains area, District B, says that Mrs. Phlox visited him in his bedroom on the night of 28 April to reassure him that she was ‘just peachy’. She appeared out of the blue, just as Mr. Double was getting ready for bed, and looked especially euphoric.
Mr. Double says that he was not particularly scared by this nocturnal visit, only surprised. However, he was rather puzzled by his aunt’s parting words: ‘Stunt, listen to Slayer’. Mr. Double is unable to account for this eccentric piece of advice.
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Cinema, again
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