We had one more entry in the Book Cover Hot Seat — Erstwhile — so I thought this would be a good time to talk about it. Here’s the cover.

There’s a lot that’s very good about this cover design. The front-cover illo is engaging and the colors all work together well. The purple title is a very good color choice against the green background of the illo.

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The Book Cover Hot Seats continue this week. There’s still room in the Open Call if you’d like to participate.

For the this Book Cover Hot Seat, let’s talk about an upcoming Promises Promises book. Here’s the submitted cover.

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Q: I’ve started production on my second print collection of comics and was hoping I could get you to talk a bit about your book covers.

I like the layout of my first one, and I’m thinking of going with the same theme, but new title and new character illustrations, different colours, much the way you did the first four Evil Inc Annual Reports. You’ve started switching up five and six a bit, was this a business decision or personal design preferences? Are you finding the variety helpful or harmful to sales in any way? Do you have any recommendations, keep a theme, change the theme? And how important is it that the two books compliment each other side by side or on the shelf? For example, in terms of colours should I be worried if the two covers clash? Should I make a point to choose complimentary ones? (I don’t know if that’s over thinking on my part.)

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