The Feast is a Collected web comic (link) that was written by Bob Tinnell. Bob was a recent client of mine when he approached me about collecting a web comic into a hardbound book. I checked out the comic and in the beginning I was taken a bit off-guard. It seemed a bit to psuedo-metal for me, but I was wrong. By the last day, I was a fan and was sorry that it was over. Bob came with a real challenge; create a book design that didn’t get in the way of the comic, but added to it and represented it with an exceptional cover. I like it anyway, the idea was to make it homey and it is.

Over the course of the next few months, we crafted several pieces of collateral for promotion and to raise the visibility of a family story, a holiday story, a salty, racy and sweet story about an Italian-American family and a small town they were a part of. There were several thing that we had to accomplish, communicating that this is not a children’s book was in top 3. I crafted a Trailer, written and narrated by Bob and with music by Michael Stewart, and provided the source material for the web site. Go here and click “view promo video.”

Along the way, we collaborated on Bookmark (like the above), Tote Bags (left), Stand-up cards and all kinds of other ephemera. The primary idea is to elevate the visibility of the brand, which is all uphill for a small press run, on the upside, Feast Fest will be invading Fairmont, WV once again this year.