The Folklore of Nick Reynolds

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Every page on this site is composed to drop straight into a print book. These are the production specs the layouts are drawn against.

Trim size: 6.625 in × 10.25 in (standard US comic)
Bleed: 0.125 in on all four sides
Safe area: 0.25 in inside trim — no lettering outside
Resolution: 600 dpi line art, 300 dpi color
Gutters: 0.125 in between panels, 0.1875 in across the spine
Color: CMYK, rich black 60/40/40/100 for night pages
Lettering: Display caps for SFX, serif for narration boxes
Page count: 24 interior pages + wraparound cover per issue

Cover Plates

Nick Reynolds in a black pinstriped cabana shirt, fire glowing around his hands, standing in cold blue tower light — The Man Without A Price

A stone backyard fire pit burning alone at night with a family home and six lit windows behind it — The Fire Pit Awakens

Tiny in workwear with a rugged headlamp, beam cutting through smoke in a dark tunnel — Tiny's Beam

Vance, bald and tattooed in a dark sleeveless work shirt, standing immovable in a rain-slick street at night — The Wall At Quarry Bridge

Spark, an imposing man with a fohawk and a scorched work jacket, embers swirling around him at night — Brother Spark

Shh in dirt-covered workwear beside a huge excavator at night under red mechanical lighting — Shh Beneath The Streets

Boochi, a lean figure in dark streetwear and tactical workwear, half-lit by ember light in an alley — Boochi Closes The Door

A pristine black 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible on a wet midnight street with chrome catching ember light — Black Eldorado

A white Escalade with a black roof lit by orange emergency light, glass shards suspended in the air around it — White Heat

Nick Reynolds in a bright patterned cabana shirt in hard daylight, pinstripe shadows falling across him — The Cabana Code

A wall of overlapping printed headlines in cold blue light, one column burning orange at the edge — Archive of the Keepers

A stone backyard fire pit at night with embers rising into the shape of streets and intersections — The Ember Map

Spark in low red light, fohawk sharp, holding a handful of glowing ash that drifts upward — The Ash Market

Nick Reynolds standing in flat white light with no fire on his hands, long hard shadow behind him — False Dawn

The Red Devil mid-transformation in a tunnel, red panels sliding as sparks trail behind it — Red Devil Run

Nick Reynolds and his crew around a stone fire pit at night with six lanterns burning behind them — Six Lights

Spark with a fohawk standing in orange half-light, an ash-colored mark glowing on his forearm — Sparkfall

A wall of yellowed clippings and filed pages arranged like bricks, lit from below by orange light — Tower of Locked Stories

Nick Reynolds and the full crew standing shoulder to shoulder around a rising column of ember light — One Crew, One Flame

A black 1975 Cadillac Eldorado with headlights blazing on a road swallowed by darkness — The Longest Night

Nick Reynolds standing in ember light with his hands open and empty, a broken iron ring at his feet — Mr. Delco Rises

Shh in workwear crouched over a burned geometric pattern scorched into wet asphalt — The Blacktop Signal

A ring of freshly laid stone in an empty field holding a tall steady flame at dusk — The Second Fire Pit

The whole crew around the family fire pit at night beneath a house with six lit windows — The Light We Carry