Cover ideaBirthday · 3D Animation

The Backyard Galaxy

A cover idea, drawn with example people

The idea

A cardboard box, some tape and a colander for a helmet. In this cover idea, a girl and her dad build a rocket in the backyard, he counts her down, and she flies off over the fence into a night sky of toy planets: a beach ball, a marble, a spinning top and a rubber-duck comet, while her dad cheers from the grass below. She lands back in his arms and asks for the same time tomorrow, and the last page finds them lying on the lawn under the stars. It suits a child who loves space, or a dad and daughter who play big, for a birthday. We drew it in the 3D Animation style, one of our six, with example people. Yours stars the person you choose: their face drawn from your photos, their city in the story and the details you tell us, across 26 pages.

A gift for

Kids · Dad · Birthday

What your book has

A 26-page original comic
A custom cover featuring their face
A personal dedication page
Set in their city, with real landmarks woven in
Delivered as a high-resolution PDF, or as a printed comic

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Look inside

Three sample pages.

We drew these for this cover idea, with example people.

Sample comic page from The Backyard Galaxy, drawn with example people. In a sunny backyard a girl and her dad tape wings onto a cardboard box, crayons on the grass: "Mission Backyard Galaxy!" She climbs in wearing a colander as a helmet, and her dad kneels beside her: "Countdown, Captain!" — **Sample page 1.** A cardboard box, some tape, a colander helmet and a countdown.

Sample comic page from The Backyard Galaxy. At night the girl flies her cardboard rocket over the backyard past a beach-ball planet, a spinning top, a ringed moon, a marble and a rubber-duck comet: "Hello, galaxy!" Inset: her dad cheers from the grass: "Liftoff!" — **Sample page 2.** Liftoff, past a beach-ball planet and a rubber-duck comet.

Sample comic page from The Backyard Galaxy. She lands in her dad's arms as the rocket tumbles: "Same time tomorrow?" Below, the two of them lie on the grass at night looking up at the stars: "Every night, Captain." — **Sample page 3.** Back in Dad's arms, then stargazing on the grass.

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