Cons can be brutal. I think moving onward, try some different venues but don’t solely rely on that for promotion. Mainstream cons are increasingly becoming a dead zone for comic sales. This year turned out to be my last year at one of my regular cons. Kinda sad about it but you have to read the crowd.
Since the success of Skim, Mariko’s written for other publishers and worked with different artists. I think for a hot minute DC gave her a series to write. Not sure.
I met Jillian at SPX about 10 years ago and had her sign this book. Great follow-up to Skim. Wish she would do more comics but the grass is greener on other illustration work I guess.
I've been seeing more con vlog recaps which have been helpful. Editors have pretty much stopped coming to the mainstream cons, so if I can't double what I pay for the table, I'm not doing your con. The ones to avoid are the ones that barely put comic creators on their flyers. Don't do those, period
My first show that i remember was Chicagocon. Late 90's. I was between Steve Rude and Al Williamson. Al was sadly a no show so there was an empty table between me a d Sergio Aragones. I wasn't ready for prime time and ate that table. At times, i had lines for Stevie and Sergio that effectively walled me out.
Are you the gentleman that has the record of the book Godzilla minus one? My name is Sharon I am looking for for a big book a bout the new Godzilla movie if you are Can I ask you was the book English or Japanese would you help me? As I am a huge Godzilla minus one fan! I have seen one or two pictures of Godzilla minus one! Thanks from Godzilla minus one fan
Most publishers want 600 dpi, but on most production copiers, 400 to 300dpi is fine. I do everything at 600 dpi, then drop it down to 400 when I make a pdf. In the options on compression, I select zip over the default jpg compression. Jpeg can really jack up the image quality as you lose information for printing. If the software gives you a workable option instead of RPG, I chose CMYK as it opens up the color gamut. If it’s pure black and white line art, bitmap files are even smaller but provide adequate information for printing while shrinking the file size down.
For coloring, I use darken instead of multiply. Multiply sometimes prints out with a weird overlap look if your blacks aren’t 100%. It also helps you to not muddy up the line art. For what I’m talking about, refer to the early days of computer coloring at Image.
The 80's definitions were Minicomics (one word) 4-1/4X5-1/2 Digest 5-1/2x8-1/2 Ashcan is a digest that is usually produced by a larger publisher or some of the artists of larger publishers with the intent to be produced as a floppy at some point.
Hey gang, there’s an imposition plug-in for Adobe that I use at work. It’s called Quite Imposing. While it does cost almost $1k, it will multi-up sheets, layout booklets with crops, create custom sizes. Why Acrobat has never added something like this into their program, I have no fucking clue. The plug-in has been around for years. I discovered it when I worked at Kinko’s.
Thank you Ben! Amelia Enmity was a webcomic between 2017-2019 and I am hoping when I get back to making comics of her again, I can publish her on traditional webcomic apps.
I think they’re out of Pittsburgh but I use Best Value Copy. It’s a Xerox shop. Quality is good. Black and white starts out at 3.2 cents an impression. Color starts at 9.9 cents an impression. Mixam isn’t bad either. They run off an HP Indigo.
I ❤️Black Dynamite.
99.98% not a scam.
Cons can be brutal. I think moving onward, try some different venues but don’t solely rely on that for promotion. Mainstream cons are increasingly becoming a dead zone for comic sales. This year turned out to be my last year at one of my regular cons. Kinda sad about it but you have to read the crowd.
Since the success of Skim, Mariko’s written for other publishers and worked with different artists. I think for a hot minute DC gave her a series to write. Not sure.
I met Jillian at SPX about 10 years ago and had her sign this book. Great follow-up to Skim. Wish she would do more comics but the grass is greener on other illustration work I guess.
I've been seeing more con vlog recaps which have been helpful. Editors have pretty much stopped coming to the mainstream cons, so if I can't double what I pay for the table, I'm not doing your con. The ones to avoid are the ones that barely put comic creators on their flyers. Don't do those, period
My first show that i remember was Chicagocon. Late 90's. I was between Steve Rude and Al Williamson. Al was sadly a no show so there was an empty table between me a d Sergio Aragones. I wasn't ready for prime time and ate that table. At times, i had lines for Stevie and Sergio that effectively walled me out.
Are you the gentleman that has the record of the book Godzilla minus one? My name is Sharon I am looking for for a big book a bout the new Godzilla movie if you are Can I ask you was the book English or Japanese would you help me? As I am a huge Godzilla minus one fan! I have seen one or two pictures of Godzilla minus one! Thanks from Godzilla minus one fan
Stephen King would play the same song on repeat while writing a novel. Kinda nuts but it would help get his brain into a routine.
Great episode and interesting people
Most publishers want 600 dpi, but on most production copiers, 400 to 300dpi is fine. I do everything at 600 dpi, then drop it down to 400 when I make a pdf. In the options on compression, I select zip over the default jpg compression. Jpeg can really jack up the image quality as you lose information for printing. If the software gives you a workable option instead of RPG, I chose CMYK as it opens up the color gamut. If it’s pure black and white line art, bitmap files are even smaller but provide adequate information for printing while shrinking the file size down.
For coloring, I use darken instead of multiply. Multiply sometimes prints out with a weird overlap look if your blacks aren’t 100%. It also helps you to not muddy up the line art. For what I’m talking about, refer to the early days of computer coloring at Image.
The 80's definitions were Minicomics (one word) 4-1/4X5-1/2 Digest 5-1/2x8-1/2 Ashcan is a digest that is usually produced by a larger publisher or some of the artists of larger publishers with the intent to be produced as a floppy at some point.
Affinity does have booklet printout option. It is very well hidden and I usually wind up contacting J. M. to tell me where it is.
Love @kelcidcrawford's Mothman cup!
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Hey gang, there’s an imposition plug-in for Adobe that I use at work. It’s called Quite Imposing. While it does cost almost $1k, it will multi-up sheets, layout booklets with crops, create custom sizes. Why Acrobat has never added something like this into their program, I have no fucking clue. The plug-in has been around for years. I discovered it when I worked at Kinko’s.
Thank you Ben! Amelia Enmity was a webcomic between 2017-2019 and I am hoping when I get back to making comics of her again, I can publish her on traditional webcomic apps.
Robert's really been about that life from the jump! One of the most creative heads in the game.
Robert is the MAN! I can’t wait to see what this supremely talented dude does next!
I think they’re out of Pittsburgh but I use Best Value Copy. It’s a Xerox shop. Quality is good. Black and white starts out at 3.2 cents an impression. Color starts at 9.9 cents an impression. Mixam isn’t bad either. They run off an HP Indigo.
I forgot to mention my family who have worked the show. My brother, Ron, son ,Bob and Daughter, Megan.