GAME PACKAGING

In 2017, Dynamite teamed with Lynnvander Games to create a tabletop board game based on their Reanimator comics. On the week the Kickstarter was to go live, the head of that department approached me to put together a web banner/ad featuring temporary box art provided by the gaming company. The game cover mock-up provided was very simple and not as representative of our property as it could have been, so I did this mock-up based on a combination of my graphic novel design, and classic, EC horror comics, and submitted it with the ad. The game company liked it, and used it as the basis for not only their box design (they kept the front mostly in tact, and tweaked the side to be vertical), but for many other elements in the game itself. The game was successfully funded.

 

GRAPHIC NOVEL:

For Dynamite's Reanimator mini-series, writer Keith Davidson leaned heavily on the character's H.P. Lovecraft roots, bringing in other Lovecraftian elements. With this in mind, I too leaned heavily into Lovecraft and Cthulhu in my designs for the book for the main elements. In the backgrounds there are also some nods to Dynamite's history of the character with Dr. West's syringes, and even some chainsaws representing his first Dynamite appearances in their Army of Darkness comics, and a Mayan calendar for his previous appearance in the Prophecy crossover.

 

Written by KEITH DAVIDESEN

Art by RANDY VALIENTE

Colors by JORGE SUTIL

Letters by MARSHAL DILLON

Cover art by FANCESCO FRANCAVILLA

note: The logo is my small revision of the original by Bill Tortolini.