Credits · palette · licensing

The small print

Everything a press desk, printer or incoming illustrator needs: who drew what, the four inks, the print spec, and what you may do with the pictures.

Media kit

One zip: RGB hero image, all three cover variants, all four spreads, the series scene, the props flatlay, and both social preview images, plus a credit and usage note. Screen use — convert to spot inks before print.

Download media kit (zip)Sample spread only

Pen-and-wash flatlay of 1990s childhood props: a milk crate, coiled bungee cord, scuffed trainer, cassette, bottle of pop, plaster, bike bell, bread bag and football — Included in the kit at full resolution.

Image credits

Story and text: Author, all 26 stories, 1993–1999, Bramblewick, Essex.
Interior spreads and covers: Illustrator — to be commissioned. Paid test first, credited on jacket and in all promotion.
Preview and brief artwork on this site: Placeholder artwork generated for layout and tone only. Not final art; replaced on commission.
Typography: Bricolage Grotesque (display), Work Sans (text), DM Mono (labels).
Photography: None used. Every image on this site is drawn.

Spread-by-spread

Pages 4–5
Nineteen crates
Alt text: Pen-and-wash illustration of nineteen milk crates stacked behind a garden shed with nettles and a bike
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Pages 12–13
Higher
Alt text: Boy at the top of a swaying tower of milk crates while a friend shouts from the grass and a mum pegs washing, oblivious
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Pages 22–23
The launch
Alt text: Boy flying sideways high above an English back garden, one trainer coming off, adults below not looking up
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Pages 30–31
The cover-up
Alt text: Three grubby children standing innocently in a kitchen doorway while a dad holds a mug and looks puzzled
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Palette

Four inks, no fifth. Hex values are screen approximations of the printed inks.

Paper — cream
#F5EBDC
Uncoated cream stock, 150gsm inside, 300gsm board for the case. Never pure white.
Ink 1 — navy
#1B2A4A
Line work, type, all figures. Carries the drawing; everything else is a wash.
Ink 2 — riso red/orange
#E8452B
Accents, danger, the title. Allowed half a millimetre out of register on the title only.
Ink 3 — teal
#2C7A7B
Skies, water, endpaper patterns. Overprints navy to make shadow.

Print notes

Format: Portrait, 240 × 280mm, hardback case bound
Extent: 32 pages plus printed endpapers
Inks: Four: cream stock plus navy, riso red/orange, teal
Spine: Approx. 8mm — narrow, navy field, cream caps
Overprint: Two-ink overlap encouraged; keep total coverage under 200%
Delivery: 300dpi layered files, one layer per ink, plus flattened RGB proofs

Licensing

Commissioned illustration: full buyout for the book, its editions, translations and promotion, with the illustrator credited on the jacket, on this site and in all press. Illustrators keep full portfolio and self-promotion rights, including print sales of their own roughs.

Press and trade: images in the media kit may be reproduced unaltered for reviews, listings and coverage with the credit line “Never Got Caught (nevergotcaught.co.uk)”. No cropping across the title, no recolouring, no merchandise, and no use as training data for generative models.

Future books: the same terms carry forward across the series. Rights enquiries — hello@nevergotcaught.co.uk.

A spread still to come

Barry’s idea, filed for a future volume: a final spread of the two old men — the author and his friend — sitting on a bench in Bramblewick, grey-haired, still grinning, still not caught. A wink to the adults who were ten in 1994.