Commission

Numbered drop editions

Announced four weeks before issue day · Posted from Hawthorpe; collection by appointment

Open illustrated book on a wooden surface

Who it is for

Readers who want a finished Fantastic Four family story without sitting for a likeness commission. Drops are written in-house: a blocked sink that becomes a portal, a school run under a force-field, a Sunday joint that will not stay on the plate because gravity has opinions.

What you receive

A numbered token and a matching print from the same edition count. The colophon lists issue title, page of origin, and the mill batch. We do not run silent reprints of a sold-out count.

Included

  • The complete short (usually ten pages)
  • Token record with the same numbering as the sheet
  • Board-backed postage within the United Kingdom

Not included

Framing, custom lettering of your surname into the splash, or a private rewrite of the plot. Those belong on a commission.

How numbering works

Counts stay small — typically twenty-four or thirty-six — because Priya mixes colour holds by hand for the print run. If a sheet is damaged in the post, we replace it from a reserved pair of printers’ proofs, then retire that number’s spare. We do not “restock.”

Price

Listed per drop on Rates. Reservations are taken by brief, not by countdown. When a count is spoken for, the listing says so in a sentence, not a ticking clock.

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