Pull up a Log

By now you will have witnessed the hideous reveal in the fourth of our series of covers by artist Sara Julia. Originally from Switzerland, Sara is a comic artist and illustrator based in Edinburgh and she has been on the Shoreline art team since issue one in which she provided the artwork for Approaching 43,000 Candles (Guy T Martland)—a story that I thought well nigh impossible to illustrate. Well done Sara for proving me wrong.

By issue 2 we decided to give Sara the cover and she produced a wonderful seasonal scene from the Shoreline of Infinity world with a mysterious figure enjoying the view. We were so impressed by this that we wondered how she would approach the other three seasons and offered her a series of covers culminating in the one in this volume, and now you can follow a year in the life of the strange space explorer.

Here is a little idea for budding Shoreline writers. Our editorial team might be very interested in a well-written story filling out Sara’s cover illustrations. Just saying.

This has proved such a good concept that we are starting into a new series of four covers by Sara’s fellow Shoreline artist Stephen Pickering. Long ago, Stephen moved from England to Scotland’s wild south west and he brings a lovely old school aesthetic to our pages. He also started with us in issue one illustrating See You Later (M Luke McDonell) and providing the sequence of images for our story competition. So watch the next four covers to see the adventures of Stephen’s character, The Reader, and future issues for more sequenced art stories from the worlds that meet on the Shoreline of Infinity.

Mark Toner
Art Director
Shoreline of Infinity
September 2016