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Covers That Go Bump In The Night: The Making of BRAIN CAMP

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June 10, 2010
Posted by: Colleen AF Venable
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The lovely folks at our parent publisher Macmillan asked me to do a guest post over on the MacKids blog. I talk about the long but pretty darn amazing trek Faith Erin Hicks and I took to get to the final terrifying BRAIN CAMP cover, and all of the scary covers from our youth we had to relive along the way. Can’t promise you won’t get nightmares from this one…but isn’t that the point!

If you were anything like me as a kid you loved a good scary story. Go and read about the whole process HERE, and remember, it’s a well known fact that if you cover your feet the monsters can’t hurt you.

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  3. From Mark Siegel’s night table: Mazzuchelli’s ASTERIOS POLYP (from Pantheon)
  4. Hiding Under the Covers (well, really “Jackets,” but that doesn’t make as good a blog title)

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