Stone Skin Press has revealed the cover to their upcoming short story collection The Aardvark and the Lion: Aesop’s Modern Fales coming out this Christmas.

They asked me to submit a short story and illustrate the cover art for the book. I had fun putting together a digitally inked piece in a turn of the century style with the two animals clacking away on their laptops.

Here’s the line art for the cover on its own: