I read this about a year and a half ago. I was making my annual list of books to read in the new year, and I got to graphic novels. Then I started wondering which graphic novels I'd already read.

The main character kind of looks like this:


Spoilers!

The plot centers around a couple -- not yet married but planning the wedding -- going through struggles in their relationship. I believe it's based in London. I'm sure the setting is in England. The couple is trying for a baby, the man gets fired from his job -- which I believe was one at a porcelain factory, and something that stands out is the last page of the book: the couple is in the artist/author's rendition of the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait.

I believe the book is illustrated in black, white and teal.

I received the beautiful Seven Swans and the magnificent Lost at Sea shirts a week or so ago, and I have worn both of them. I am terrified of putting them in the wash because I don't want the designs to fade and lose their colour.

Has anybody tried to hand-wash? Is there a certain way that you wash your shirts that preserves the designs?

to use specialty brushes from photoshop? The ones with fancy shapes and such?