This week’s comic may be a bit late. I’m playing around with some workflow changes and it’s probably going to take a bit of tweaking to get it right. Years ago, I bought Manga Studio 4, a snazzy manga drawing and production program for my computer. Things happened and I never got around to working with it and it just kinda sat there. As I’ve been working on getting things going again, I’m looking at ways of streamlining things. Right now, I’m seeing if inking on the computer will save some time. I’ve been doing traditional inking and that adds some time to the process. It’s going to take a bit to get used to a new process, but if it helps in the long run, that’s totally worth it.
In other news, all my prep for WonderCon 2013 in Anaheim, CA is done. Got all my transportation stuff set up today. Plane flight is booked. Airport shuttles have been reserved. Now I’m just waiting for Comic-Con to get back to me about my Professional verification. Long process that. Either way though, I’ll be in Anaheim. Can’t wait!
Printing Beyond Neverwonder
on March 6, 2013We’re at the end of Chapter 2 of Beyond Neverwonder. With that, I’m looking into getting some printed versions of what has been produced so far. I’m not sure if that’s going to be one or two issues, but I’m in the process of converting all the web-sized files into print-sized files. When I initially started, I never thought that there could be a relatively cheap way of printing the thing, but now, 6 years later, there are some pretty good options there. Fortunately converting all the stuff over isn’t that big of a process. The only page that I didn’t have a high resolution version of was WAY back with page 1. All the rest I have high-res versions of all the artwork. I’m doing a bit of re-typesetting too since I changed fonts somewhere in the middle (still using wonderful Blambot fonts though). It’s looking like the books will cost around $4-5 to make, so that’s not too bad a thing.
Of course, I have no idea if anyone out there is going to want to pay for them, but it’ll be a good exercise in marketing. As soon as I have that ready, I’ll pass more info on.