September 2011
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Preparing comic for print (process talk)
Whenever I prepare new projects, I find myself sharing/rehashing the same information to contributors. So here I’ve finally put it out to the public.
My process is
Draw on paper at larger size
Scan in grayscale/bitmap
Convert to grayscale
Do all my drawing edits (at the larger size)
Resize to working print-size
Convert to bitmap (50% threshold)
Convert to grayscale (so you can use...
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Digital prepress and bookmaking presentation (May...
sumafu:
At Anime North 2011, Figarizzle (K), myself (J) and belugachop (W) did a presentation targeted towards artists who are interested in self publishing their own comic work.
The digital .ppt file can be found here, along with other relevant links and resources.
Thank you to Maiji for recording this and uploading it for me to transcribe SUPER paraphrase! She also took condensed notes if...
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Plan your project
Outline:
planning your project
considerations prior to jumping in
So you want to make an english language doujinshi for print…? Great!
Do not expect to make a lot of money. The best case scenario is that you will break even, while the worst case scenario is that you will spend a lot of money and have a mound of books left over, gathering dust in the corner of your room.
So, be...
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How we got started in self-publishing
Outline:
How we got started
Explains our motivation
Here goes the most boring part of the blog to begin with: history of us.
This goes back to the beginning of popularization of the dial-up internet back in the latter half of the 1990s. I was obsessed with a boy band just like the average teenybopper, somehow I started drawing fanarts and posting them on the internet. It eventually turned...
