Nailin theWall
A graphic novel about mentorship, purpose, and a retired war robot learning what to do when the war it was built for is gone. My role focused on lettering, reading flow, and cover composition.
16
lettered pages
1
cover system
2
unlikely mentors
Project brief
A war machine, a broken toaster, and mentorship with crumbs in it.
Nail in the Wall follows a discarded war robot waiting for orders that will never arrive. Its stillness is interrupted by a broken toaster that spends its days firing bread at a wall for no obvious reason.
The story turns mentorship into something strange and funny: a machine built for war learns from a toaster that cannot move, cannot toast properly, and somehow still teaches it to act for itself.
Lettering
Placed narration, dialogue, SFX, and machine-readout text so the pages keep their rhythm without smothering the artwork.
Cover Composition
Balanced the story pitch, title lockup, credit zone, robot, toaster, and open sky into a readable graphic novel cover.
Reading Flow
Used balloons, captions, and repeated sound cues to guide the eye through quiet pages and sudden bursts of movement.
Cover composition
Selling the joke and the ache in one cover.
The cover has to read quickly, but it also has to hold the strange softness of the premise. The composition keeps the sky open, the title loud, and the robot-toaster relationship quietly clear.
Lettered pages
The page is quiet until the lettering starts pushing air through it.
Narrative mechanics
The emotional system is simple, then oddly hard to shake.
01
A Purpose Gone Quiet
The robot is not broken in the usual way. It was built for war, and the world stopped needing that war.
02
A Mentor That Misfires
The toaster cannot move or toast properly, but its repeated failures become a strange lesson in choosing action anyway.
03
Motion Without Orders
The lettering had to hold the tenderness under the comedy: small pauses, blunt machine logic, and sudden bursts of bread.
Lettering
Composition pass
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Graphic novel
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