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‘Have you heard of the Koku Island’ is a book about three friends who leave on a faraway island and are happy to welcome visitors, it tells about the importance of dreaming and staying curious.
The book currently has nine chapters and is in the making.
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These are the first sketches, when I started developing the characters and the narrative style. With this story I was exploring a very 'free' comic layout, there the different actions are not constricted by dividers or interrupted by solid lines.
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Above you can see the printed prototype that I made recently. Pastel pages, binded together inside a red hard cover.
This is the end of the first book, I hope to keep working on it and make it a real publication in the near future. The process of making it brought me much joy and the feedback I got so far from my friends and peers has been great. I hope you like it as much as I liked making it.
xoxo, Masha.