When the gutter has to carry the spell
A Doctor Strange–inspired double-page is not two posters glued at the spine. The fold is part of the magic, or it is a tear.
Field notes
Pages from the bench, not lectures about “storytelling”
Short notes from drawing Doctor Strange–tradition artbook chapters: how a gutter carries a spell, how a cloak is inked, why a colophon still matters when a title spread is also an NFT.
Inking a cloak so the silhouette still reads at arm’s length
Cloak folds eat ink. If every crease is equal, the figure becomes a puddle. Here is how we keep the outline of a mystic-arts cloak on a chapter page.
Why a mystic artbook chapter still needs a colophon
Collectors of numbered NFT comic spreads often skip the last page. That page is where the earth-variant, the edition, and the paper stock are told honestly.
Paper stock that can take a gold-leaf title plate
Leaf will not sit on cheap coated stock. For Doctor Strange–tradition title plates we specify weight, tooth, and a sizing test before the leaf goes down.
The numbered NFT spread and the bound chapter are not the same object
A token of the title spread is a record. The folio is the chapter. Mixing the two in a listing is how collectors end up disappointed.