The Lydia Ray comic book is out now in PDF, via Drivethru Comics, and I wanted to share some pictures of the cover process:
These were some first sketches for discarded ideas.
I stayed with this idea, where a mini Lydia is standing over her head, in a kind of scolding attitude. It’s not a scene from any of the three stories, but I thought it’s in the vein of the “existential apparitions” that she faces in the comics.
With the final color, I had in mind a couple of sources where tinted electric light give a fantastic feeling: the radical hues in the Depeche Mode video for the song “Policy of Truth” by Anton Corbijn, and some of the colors in Dario Argento’s “Suspiria”.
Here’s the final cover:
The comic includes the 3 Lydia Ray stories, reformatted to look nice in the comic book format of this PDF. It also features a section with extras: sketches and inspiration notes. This is all material that has been shared around here before, through different posts and dossiers, but if you’d like to have this revised collection in PDF, here’s a link to buy it with a special discount, and pay $1.99 instead of the list price of $4.99.
