The Graphic Novel Studio brings together all the services you need to get your graphic novel from roughs to printed book, and beyond.
About the studio.
Corinne and Vicki have worked in publishing together for around a decade and a half, producing some incredible graphic novels along the way, working with award-winning authors such as Darryl Cunningham, Sabba Khan and Zara Slattery. For a while, they’ve been seeing a lot of authors – and even publishing houses and academic researchers – wanting to know how to turn impressive graphic novel ideas into real-life books, and also how to market those books once complete.
They decided it was time to step in.
Now, they’re combining their skills and experience in the graphic novel form to offer publishing houses, not-for-profits, and indie authors a full graphic novel production service – from conception through to print and publication. Once your book is ready to roll, they can also be on hand to help navigate the dynamic comics world, developing marketing strategies to launch your book and to engage with bookshops and libraries, as well as all-important comics fairs.
Corinne Pearlman
Commissioning
Script and artwork developmental editing
Project management
Project artworking
Rights advice
Consultation – from conception to marketing
Corinne is an experienced editor and production manager of graphic novels, accompanying authors through the stages of editing, designing and production for print.
Corinne is director of the First Graphic Novel Award which she has steered since its founding by Myriad in 2012 as the First Graphic Novel Competition. The award is now run in partnership with the Cartoon Museum and graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero. Formerly Creative Director at Myriad where she commissioned the graphic novel list, she is also a co-founder of Cartoon County, a network of Sussex-based cartoonists, and was a partner in Comic Company, using comics in health information. As a cartoonist she has contributed to several anthologies and publications. She also represents graphic novelists as a partner in Pearlman & Lacey agency.
Vicki Heath-Silk
Book design (panels and layouts)
Cover design
Art direction
Font advice and handling
Artworking, including text flowing
File production for print and ebook
Vicki is a dedicated book designer, with a specialism in graphic novels. She’s worked for publishers large and small – from Bonnier and Bloomsbury, to Myriad (founders of the First Graphic Novel Award) – and has helped several indie graphic novelists from around the world to realise their dreams in the self-publishing biz (so knows a thing or two about KDP, Ingram, BookVault, and all the rest).
Vicki’s passion lies in getting books to look gloriously beautiful, through meticulous design and unique layouts – firmly understanding that every graphic novel is utterly different, and so needs its own careful handling to be its most brilliant self.
Our services.
We can help authors and publishers bring graphic novels to print and to ebook with editing, design, and production management services:
manuscript assessment and editorial feedback from £250
developmental / structural editing
from £250 for graphic novels
from £15/1,000 words for prosementoring from £75/hour
graphic novel consulting (from commissioning, to launch and marketing) from £250
book template design from £350
artworking (layout and typesetting) from £350
cover design / art direction from £350
internal art direction (feedback on technical elements: line art, ink density, dialogue balloons, dpi, colour handling) from £250
file production (print and epub/kpf) from £250
We can also offer: project management; ghostwriting; promotional graphics; copyediting; proofreading.
Contact us.
Do get in touch to discuss how we can help with your graphic novel.