My just-for-fun entry for the July/August 2022 lite challenge, “map a book cover.” I won my first mapping away on this challenge four years ago, but that challenge required the use of a certain shape for the map. This was any book cover that included a map, and I immediately thought of a crab superimposed over downtown Baltimore and a nod to The Wire.

Hand-drawn in Photoshop on a Wacon Intuos table. Fonts are Broadsheet, Geographical Hand, and good old Times New Roman. WIP is at https://cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=50992.

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