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I  was commissioned to do the trade paper back cover for the second volume of MEGACITY UNDERCOVER series by 2000ad a couple of months ago… but I wasn’t able to blog about it until now!  (It’s up on Amazon…. So I think I’m pretty safe!

It collects recent Low Life Stories written by the Razor sharp Rob Williams, and drawn by Dazzling D’Israeli, Sizzling Simon Coleby, and..err… me, Rickety Rufus.

The first volume had a cover by Jock..and it’s fucking stunning…. So the bar was set at an already ridiculous height…

 I wanted the second volume to sit alongside the first nicely in a Library, as I hate it when TPBs change layout mid volume… (a bit of continuity does occasionally serve a purpose!! )

Jock’s cover has a beautiful warmth to it…. In Red and  Orange… My Cover’s set on the dock’s of MegaCity One… so I went for a cold blue to create atmosphere, and compliment the first volume’s palette.

I originally designed it to just have Aimee and Dirty Frank on the Cover…. But Keith the editor asked for a further 2 characters to be added in, Mortal (the Judge ‘baby’) and Thora (a n undercover Judge disguised as an old woman),  so I had to squeeze them in too…    I put Mortal in a baby carrier on Dirty Frank, which seemed to work out ok!

 I pencilled over an enlarged thumbnail sketch, and scanned the finished pencil art, and coloured in Photoshop.

You can preorder MEGACITY UNDERCOVER 2 now, on Amazon!

XXXX Rufus