Financial Times: 'Earth Calling Taylor' Short Story by David Mitchell

Earth Calling Taylor by David Mitchell

Taylor checks out the two nurses in the lift.

The Financial Times commissioned me to provide illustrations for a short story 'Earth Calling Taylor' by British author David Mitchell. The short story headed the New Year's eve edition of the Life and Arts supplement.
The story focuses on Ryan Taylor and his frustrations with his boss Calvin Hathaway as he awaits that all important e-mail confirming the promotion he so desperately desires on New Year's eve.
By chance he finds himself in a hospital after his father's tangle with a christmas tree, and on an errand to find champagne to help celebrate an 'interesting' New Year, he encounters different people and patients that influence him in some way!
Scenes that I chose to illustrate included Taylor's encounter with a hooded man who has a metal prosthetic hand on the hospital rooftop, and Taylor's wandering eyes as he checks out the two nurses in the lift. Along with these two main illustrations I provided two drop illustrations, of the abusive e-mail Taylor decides to send to his boss on his Blackberry, and the old ladies postcard of Burrard Bridge in Vancouver.

Taylor sends abusive message to Calvin Hathaway and inspects
the old postcard of Burrard Bridge in Vancouver.

Putting the illustrations together for this commission really was a pleasure. I enjoyed the story on first read and am a massive fan of David Mitchell's work as an author.

To Read the Story please check out the link below:

Financial Times: Earth Calling Taylor by David Mitchell