Keeli McCarthy

Designer with Fantagraphics Books. Artist in Residence at Missouri State University | keelimccarthy.com

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Cover design and hand lettering for Krazy and Ignatz: The George Herriman Library, 1919-1921, the second volume in the series. 4C cover, plus stamped texture

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Hand lettering and design NoBody Likes You, Greta Grump by Eisner award winner Cathy Malkasian. A graphic novel for middle grade YA readers.

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Design and hand lettering for Cowboy by Rikke Villadson. Hard cover with textured stamping.

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The Machine Never Blinks: A Graphic History of Spying and Surveillance by Ivan Greenberg, Everett Patterson, and Joseph Canlas. Foreword by Ralph Nader. Hard cover with spot varnish.

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Goblin Girl by Moa Romanova

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Cover design and hand lettering for Krazy and Ignatz: The George Herriman Library, 1916-1918. This book launches the re-design of the soft cover series originally designed for Fantagraphics by Chris Ware. 4C cover, plus one Pantone, stamped texture

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English and Spanish covers for Paco Roca’s The House/La Casa. Hard cover with textured stamping.

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Hand lettering for Simon Hanselmann’s Bad Gateway. Foil stamping, soft touch lamination, and black sprayed edges.

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Series design and hand lettering for Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: The Ice Sword Saga Book 1, by Massimo De Vita

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A Perfect Failure: Fante Bukowski Three by Noah Van Sciver. The final installment of the Fante Bukowski trio. Can you guess which tortured 90s author’s door stop of a book I was riffing on with this cover? Four color with metallic Pantone seal, embossing.

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Angola Janga: Kingdom of Runaway Slaves by Marcelo D’Salete. Green and black Pantone inks with bronze metallic Pantone.

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Red Ultramarine by Manuele Fior. Three Pantone spot colors.

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Design for James Warren: Empire of Monsters by Bill Schelly. Four Pantone spot colors plus matte black stamping. Most of the type was either hand lettered or pieced together from original magazine scans. This was one of my favorite design projects of 2018!

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The Scar: Graphic Reportage from the U.S.-Mexico Border by Andrea Ferraris and Renato Chiocca

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The Sea by Rikke Villadsen

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Ink & Anguish: A Jay Lynch Anthology with Ed Piskor and Patrick Rosenkranz

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Drew Friedman’s Chosen People. Hardcover with emboss and deboss.