Mara Ellison
Draws sequential pages and cloak work. Trained in narrative illustration, then spent years lettering small-press mystic shorts before opening the Bagendon table.
Studio
A folio room, a bone folder, and chapters that stay original
Codevault Base began as a table for people who wanted Doctor Strange–tradition comic chapters they could bind, not pages copied from published Marvel issues. The room is still in Bagendon. The work is still sequential art, lettering, and leaf.
Why the table exists
Marvel NFT comics collectors kept arriving with a title spread they wanted tokenised and no chapter behind it. We refused to mint a poster and call it a book. The studio’s job is to draw an original mystic-arts chapter — splash, gutters, captions, colophon — then, if asked, prepare a numbered NFT of that title spread for the patron to issue. The token follows the paper. The paper does not follow a drop calendar.
Where we work
Layouts, inks, and folio review sittings happen at 36 Wood Lane,Bagendon,GL7 8EZ,United Kingdom. The lane is quiet enough to read a dummy aloud. Gold-leaf tests happen on the same table because leaf hates a draught from an open door. We post bound folios within Great Britain; we do not run a shop counter for licensed trades.
How we treat the mystic-arts tradition
Doctor Strange chapters live on cloak silhouettes, circular spells, sanctum rooms, and earth-variants that should feel like a turn of paper rather than a costume parade. We study that grammar. We invent original sorcerers, relics, and streets. We will not draw official likenesses or rebuild a published fight page panel by panel. If a brief needs a licensed character, we send you back to the rights holder.
How a sitting actually runs
You send a chapter premise. We answer with page count, palette, and whether the chapter wants a silent spread. Then a layout pass, inks, colour or a limited wash, lettering dummy, and a bind list. Two of us will argue about a gutter before we let a caption sit on the fold. That argument is the method. There is no house “framework” beyond the dummy and the colophon.
People at the table
Who draws, inks, and letters
Jonah Reed
Handles relic plates, gold-leaf tests, and the last ink pass on splashes so the silhouette still reads when the folio is held at arm’s length.
Leah Okonkwo
Designs caption texture and original glyph keys for a single chapter at a time. Keeps balloons off the fold and off the leaf.