EXTRA EXTRA: It’s a Wonderful Life — 3 Covers hit the stand

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Three weeks ago I received a call from Toronto Life magazine, asking me if I could create three, yes three, covers for their upcoming issue. — How it works is, you have you’re “cover cover” that’s the one everyone sees when they first look at the magazine, and then underneath that you have your second cover, and underneath that a third. And the idea was that I could use these covers to create a three part story, which features a day in the life of some creative Torontonians — “Sounds terrific.” I said, “that sort of thing is right up my alley.” — “Great,” they said. “But there’s just one thing. We need it in exactly five days.”

Then if my life were a movie, Journey’s “Ask the Lonely” would have kicked in, and there would have been a montage scene which condensed 120 hours of drawing, colouring and dripping takeout food on my keyboard, into one moment of triumph; in which I conquer my demons, rise to the challenge, and kick some major illustration ass. — But in reality, I had to play that song again and again, and eventually got sick of it on the third day. The rest though, all happened exactly like that. — I hope you enjoy.

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