Drawings with (or in) your Hereville Hardcover

If you buy your copy of Hereville from me, there are four options for personalizing your book. Whichever option you choose, please remember to email me and tell me what name I should sign your book (and drawings, if you get a drawing) to. If you prefer me to just sign the book but not dedicate it to anyone, tell me that too, please!

Option One: Signature and Dedication. Free!

If you buy a copy of “Hereville” from me, I will sign and dedicate the book in whatever way you want (i.e., “For Samantha!”), and also do a sloppy 30-second Mirka head sketch in the book. No charge for that.

Option Two: Glued-In Book Plate. $5

If you want, I could also glue in a book plate with a sketch of Mirka winking. This book plate is approximately 5 inches wide by 9 inches tall, is glued to the first page of the book (which has no content to cover up), and looks like this:

I’d sign and dedicate this in any way you’d like. The cost of the book plate is $5.

Options 3 and 4: An original, one-of-a-kind “Hereville” drawing. $25 or $100

If you’d like, I’d be happy to send you an original Hereville drawing with your book.

These drawings are approximately five inches wide by eight inches tall, on white paper. I hand-draw these on the computer (the same way I draw the comic book) and then create a high-quality print, but each one is an exclusive, one-of-a-kind piece, drawn especially for you, and never repeated or sold as a print to anyone else. (Although I reserve the right to reprint these drawings on my website, or in a “Hereville sketchbook” someday).

Your drawing can either be glued into your book, on the first page (which has no content on it, so you won’t be missing anything by covering this page up), or it could be sent unattached, printed out on thick, high-quality paper (for instance, if you’d like to frame it).

Feel free to request specific themes or characters — or I can just draw whatever comes to my mind, if that’s what you prefer. Requests can be made either by emailing me or by using the comment area of Paypal’s form. (I reserve the right to refuse requests.)

Here’s an example of what a twenty five dollar drawing might look like:

You can find a bunch more examples of drawings done at this level here.

I’ll also do a hundred-dollar drawing, if you like. Hundred dollar drawings involve a much more “finished” line, and I’ll do things that would be more work than I’d be willing to do for a $25 sketch (see the quilt drawing below, for example).

Here are two examples of what a hundred-dollar drawing might look like:

The drawing above was done at the request of someone who wanted a quilt incorporated into the drawing.

Please note that I generally only do characters from “Hereville” in these drawings. Also, keep in mind that it can take a week or two (or even longer, if I’m up against a very tight deadline on another job, or traveling out of town for cons) for original drawings to be created.

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