Not shops you can buy ghosts in, but shops that aren’t there anymore.
Cover and illustrations for Deluxe Magazine, a periodical about music and record shops.
The main feature in this issue was an interview with Joe Mount from the musical act METRONOMY. (Joe’s from Totnes in Devon like me and The Drift Record Shop who publish Deluxe.
Here, the copies from the Newspaper Club printers had just arrived at The Drift Record Shop. The drawings were done with a ‘Parallel’ calligraphy Pilot Pen & Pentel ColourBrush brush pen.
Or grab a physical copy from Drift in Totnes. I think you can mail-order free physical copies from their website too, you just have to pay postage.
It’s distributed nation-wide by Forte Music Distribution so copies will be in record shops all over the UK too.
You can read an online version of the interview – complete with drawings – right here.
Check out those piles.
I think there was something like 3,000 copies of this printed up.
The graphic design on Deluxe is by the peerless AtWork studio. Check those guys out.
Cool records to be seen in the background, artist thankfully not in shot…
The idea behind this was to clobber people in the eye with the massive, bold design as they walked up Totnes high street. I drew the outlines with a chunky liquid chalk marker to get them looking crisp before proceeding to block in with good old-fashioned paint and a brush.
The story starts straight away as soon as you open the front cover – no title pages or publication information pages…
So since we only had black and white to play with for interiors, I used a few storytelling tricks to help make the tale feel a bit richer. Here, the folk-art style border means the characters are in an 
Here, the grey instead of white means the scene is taking place in a shared dream world.
And the grey linework and mottled brushwork shading here means it’s a flashback.
So here’s the book sitting on top of all the pages of artwork on Bristol board that went into its creation.
So since the series is being reprinted to fit in with the style of the prose novels a bit more, Evil Star and Raven’s Gate look pretty good next to each other, hm?
It’s slightly bigger than the last edition, and the page stock is a bit weightier this time around so it’s slightly thicker, too. Nices!
The book opened up to reveal Richard Cole’s hellhound-gunning Peugeot 106 in all its glory. Also, some other things.
And some in the window! See you on the 20th!
“Driftmas”, you see!
They’ve got a