More sleep.
BOOK UPDATE: Here’s the cover of the Savage Chickens book, Savage Chickens: A Survival Kit for Life in the Coop, which will be published by Perigee Books in March 2011!
Creating the cover was a lot of fun for me. I worked with the awesome Nellys Li, a senior designer from Penguin USA’s Putnam Art Department in NYC. We came up with a bunch of ideas. I mailed Nellys some sketches on sticky notes and she took photos of them in office settings, but that didn’t quite look right so we tried some hand-drawn covers instead. Along the way, we got valuable input from my editor, the publisher, and the sales team. Nellys combined elements from a couple of my drawings to create the final cover above.
Here are a couple of black-and-white sketches of other cover ideas that we considered:
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Help the chicken make it through the week, from the top left corner to the bottom right! (You don’t have to pass through all of the days of the week along the way — just make sure you get to Friday!)
This cartoon was drawn on four 3″ x 5″ sticky notes and then pasted together to make a giant 3″ x 20″ sticky note!
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