St. Cyborg's
Designer and Illustrator: Tom Muller

It is always great to see a cover that has been designed and illustrated from scratch. Building every aspect of a design brings it that much closer to being purely original.

This book is about "13 mindbending SF shorts of alien teachers, pregnant SuperHeroines, a caretaker who runs an after-school chain-gang for miscreants, the scariest petshop in the world and much more...."
—Jason Gabbert

What was your process?
The process was pretty straight forward. The book was going to be the 'standard' TPB approach (full colour cover with B/W interior). I had browsed through the book, which is a collection of short stories, so there wasn't really a central character popping out, except the title, which also is the setting of the stories (it's a school). So I had the idea of using the name and the iconography of a school crest but filtered through a 'robotic' theme if you will.

Did you do any other concepts outside of this chosen solution?
No, not really. I was experimenting at first with photographic/scanning bits of old cameras and cell phones to make up the robot, but the results were quite horrid (if I say so myself), so I decided to start from scratch and build the robot in illustrator.