ABOVE THE VOLCANO
Comic book // Screen print
Comic book // Screen print
A comic book adaptation to a story by Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack, collected in the book The Elephant Vanishes. The project was done in Glasgow School of Art, during a student exchange program in my undergraduate studies.
The story takes place around Japan, in a vast body of water right above an underwater volcano, where the protagonist had a mysterious accident in his past.
The story takes place around Japan, in a vast body of water right above an underwater volcano, where the protagonist had a mysterious accident in his past.
During the writing process I had a sharp picture in my mind of a calm and clear water with the volcano underneath. That picture became a two layers screen print which made the book’s cover.
The illustration was drawn with a nib pen and brush with ink on a mark resist film, which transferred to a silk screen.
The illustration was drawn with a nib pen and brush with ink on a mark resist film, which transferred to a silk screen.
To create the comic book, I storyboarded and designed the characters trying to achieve the tone and pace of Murakami’s stories, while embedding visual inspiration from woodblock prints. For that reason I decided to keep the process of creating the visuals the same as the screen print, with two coloured layers drawn on mark resist film with nib pen and brush.
