Devin Toye : comic books
 

current —
Loosely based on real life events that have happened to myself, I want to develop a series of comic books that portray the comparison between realistic life and the life I illustrate into the books. I'm not saying, "My loosly based life is so great, check out what happened..." I just want to illustrate and design books, which show all the small things. The things that make people feel comfortable and uncomfortable on an every day basis. Whether it's with your job, school, friends, family, girlfriend or boyfriend. This seeeming most like an illustration based concentration; I will be focused on the design aspect of it in seminar. I plan on centering most of my attention on the identity of my campaign, the covers, print, type, packaging, and advertisement. And I plan on on constructing the books myself.
6 sep 06

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I came up with a concept in Design Stories that delivered one of John McVey's projects in hard cover comic book form. This idea I had for the format of comic book developed solely to be used as a crutch at first to help motivate myself for the project. We were assigned to construct a book made up of each individual classmate's information on different areas of 19th century printing methods. We each chose a topic and wrote a paper on it a couple pages long. I saw down and reworked y paper on the rotary press several times trying to make it just right. The final project sounded like an epic dramatization of the characters (inventors) that played a role in the production of the rotary press. John read it and said it sounded cinematic, like a comic book almost. I drafted this idea and cut up ten different comics comprising them into one book and integrating the essays of my fellow classmates to correspond with one another. The book, containing several different collages came out well in my opinion and I was thoroughly happy with it. To strengthen the craft aspect of the book I scanned the images and printed them out in color to unify the pages. Finally with the help of taking the book binding class, which has now encompassed my entire body of work this semester, I sewed the comic with a double-pamphlet stitch, and then encased the comic in a hardcover. John seemed pleased with my work, as did I. After I made the book John and I talked about how it would be nice to create a comic book based of Phil Meggs's textbook A History of Graphic Design. The comic would be a relief to those who see Phil Meggs as a rough overload of the dull and unreadable. The idea of this graphic text-comici-book could possibly participate in developing some kind of career someday. So with my newfound love for making books and in discovering the taste for the comics incorporated with information, I want to create the history of graphic design hard cover comic book.
10 may 06

5 september 06