In my collaboration "Spiderlimbs and Eerie Things" I challenged all the crontibutors to consider coming together with our creepy stories and illustrations to create a graphic novel. A graphic novel is the perfect collaboration project as it necessitates a writer, penciller, inker, letterer, and colorist.

In the case of this first story I have filled in as penciller and inker, just to get the ball rolling, and obviously, Metaphorest was the writer of the poem "The Sorrow Bird". Now all that is needed (for this story, at least) is a letterer and colorist. Help me out guys! (Or start your own penciller/inker steps by choosing another story in the collab.)

If you want to take on either of these jobs, download the zip file of all the pages!

Letterer:

Panel 1: The Sorrow Bird

Panel 2: If you should hear a mournful song
A tune that makes your skin feel wrong

Panel 3:The melancholy wail you heard

Panel 4: Most likely was the Sorrow Bird

In my collaboration "Spiderlimbs and Eerie Things" I challenged all the crontibutors to consider coming together with our creepy stories and illustrations to create a graphic novel. A graphic novel is the perfect collaboration project as it necessitates a writer, penciller, inker, letterer, and colorist.

In the case of this first story I have filled in as penciller and inker, just to get the ball rolling, and obviously, Metaphorest was the writer of the poem "The Sorrow Bird". Now all that is needed (for this story, at least) is a letterer and colorist. Help me out guys! (Or start your own penciller/inker steps by choosing another story in the collab.)

If you want to take on either of these jobs, download the zip file of all the pages!

Letterer:

Panel 1:Though to all else the room is still
It spins round you with hollow trill

Panel 2: And burns inside your brain and ears

Panel 3 (bottle label):The sum of all unspoken fears

In my collaboration "Spiderlimbs and Eerie Things" I challenged all the crontibutors to consider coming together with our creepy stories and illustrations to create a graphic novel. A graphic novel is the perfect collaboration project as it necessitates a writer, penciller, inker, letterer, and colorist.

In the case of this first story I have filled in as penciller and inker, just to get the ball rolling, and obviously, Metaphorest was the writer of the poem "The Sorrow Bird". Now all that is needed (for this story, at least) is a letterer and colorist. Help me out guys! (Or start your own penciller/inker steps by choosing another story in the collab.)

If you want to take on either of these jobs, download the zip file of all the pages!

Letterer:

The Sorrow Bird it rare is seen
Its feathers black, its face serene
It stares right through you to your soul
With empty eyes of coldest coal

In my collaboration "Spiderlimbs and Eerie Things" I challenged all the crontibutors to consider coming together with our creepy stories and illustrations to create a graphic novel. A graphic novel is the perfect collaboration project as it necessitates a writer, penciller, inker, letterer, and colorist.

In the case of this first story I have filled in as penciller and inker, just to get the ball rolling, and obviously, Metaphorest was the writer of the poem "The Sorrow Bird". Now all that is needed (for this story, at least) is a letterer and colorist. Help me out guys! (Or start your own penciller/inker steps by choosing another story in the collab.)

If you want to take on either of these jobs, download the zip file of all the pages!

Letterer:

Panel 1: It empties you of all your breath

Panel 3:And turns your living into death

In my collaboration "Spiderlimbs and Eerie Things" I challenged all the crontibutors to consider coming together with our creepy stories and illustrations to create a graphic novel. A graphic novel is the perfect collaboration project as it necessitates a writer, penciller, inker, letterer, and colorist.

In the case of this first story I have filled in as penciller and inker, just to get the ball rolling, and obviously, Metaphorest was the writer of the poem "The Sorrow Bird". Now all that is needed (for this story, at least) is a letterer and colorist. Help me out guys! (Or start your own penciller/inker steps by choosing another story in the collab.)

If you want to take on either of these jobs, download the zip file of all the pages!

Letterer:

For if the Sorrow Bird should show

In my collaboration "Spiderlimbs and Eerie Things" I challenged all the crontibutors to consider coming together with our creepy stories and illustrations to create a graphic novel. A graphic novel is the perfect collaboration project as it necessitates a writer, penciller, inker, letterer, and colorist.

In the case of this first story I have filled in as penciller and inker, just to get the ball rolling, and obviously, Metaphorest was the writer of the poem "The Sorrow Bird". Now all that is needed (for this story, at least) is a letterer and colorist. Help me out guys! (Or start your own penciller/inker steps by choosing another story in the collab.)

If you want to take on either of these jobs, download the zip file of all the pages!

Letterer:

"So comes the hour to slip below"

In my collaboration "Spiderlimbs and Eerie Things" I challenged all the crontibutors to consider coming together with our creepy stories and illustrations to create a graphic novel. A graphic novel is the perfect collaboration project as it necessitates a writer, penciller, inker, letterer, and colorist.

In the case of this first story I have filled in as penciller and inker, just to get the ball rolling, and obviously, Metaphorest was the writer of the poem "The Sorrow Bird". Now all that is needed (for this story, at least) is a letterer and colorist. Help me out guys! (Or start your own penciller/inker steps by choosing another story in the collab.)

If you want to take on either of these jobs, download the zip file of all the pages!

Colorist suggestions:

1. Blue pallettes of Craig Thompson's novel "Blankets"

2. Collage elements like Metaphorest's "In the city" remix

3. printing out and painting over it

I left out the white boxes typical of comic/graphic novels so that letterers can have a bit more freedom with insertion of the lines from Metaphorest's poem. Have free reign! 

"From a distance,

Henrietta Hexagram-Head

looked just like a star.

So, when she fell from a tall tree,

instead of rushing to her aid,

the watching witnesses made wishes on her

(Which never came true)"

This was intended for Henriette Hexagram Head---but maybe someone else can come up with a tiny story for it?

More pages needing some assistance!

While almost completely useless for this film, I just had to draw out the pack of wolves from theserpentthecharmer's Departure poem/story/film/collab

"If you'd come back to life, you'd find a den of wolves at my door

Asking if that pretty girl is coming around anymore"

Another rather useless contribution to theserpentthecharmer's "of messengers and wolves" but it was in my head and had to be done!

"You're more than a painting ever conveyed to our eyes

More beautiful than the ivory on old piano keys

I never thought the world was a stage but now I see

It was meant to display you, the unrequited, and me"

Final drawing for "Daughters and Vultures"

"    So when the floor drops out, and my feet start kicking, know that the noose won't kill me, your name will keep my breathing."

Doesnt that line just chill you to the bone?

Second illustration for theserpentthecharmer's "Daughters and Vultures

"We all think that our time will never end, that we'll live forever, and I know that to be true."

Theserpentthecharmer obviously has a gift with words, and so I was overjoyed when he put some of his short stories in the "Spiderlimbs and Eerie Things" collab. This is the first in a series of four drawings/illustrations for "Daughters and Vultures". Colorists and Letterers---you know what to do!

"I'd ask the hangman to wait, to wait until I found your face in the crowd. "