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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 26, 2016 17:25:07 GMT -5
Nice score. I'm liking those Forver people's. I'm missing #1 also. Who isn't?
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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 16, 2016 20:00:40 GMT -5
Curses! I am so jealous. I'm trying to put together a collection of all Kirby's DC stuff without bankrupting myself. Cheap poor condition, uncollectable copies. Not that common in the UK. I have waited to find the Kirby fourth world issues for the right price. I just want the book to be complete even if it's a bit worn. Those books are compete but they have writing on the covers. I glued and sewed together an issue of Demon recently. The pages were all there and all cpmlete but just not attached to each other very well. Did only cost me pennies and it's now readable.
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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 14, 2016 17:24:45 GMT -5
Curses! I am so jealous. I'm trying to put together a collection of all Kirby's DC stuff without bankrupting myself. Cheap poor condition, uncollectable copies. Not that common in the UK.
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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 8, 2016 18:54:19 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 21, 2016 16:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 17, 2016 18:11:50 GMT -5
What programs/ tools are you using junkmonkey? My usual routine is write/draw thumbnails in pencil - most often in my in my sketchbook (some of the thumbnails can be pretty detailed - I quite often have no idea where a gag is going when I start on the first panel. If I get bogged down in writing, the drawing will become more detailed as I tread water before moving onto the next panel . Most of the time that gives my subconscious time to come up with something to put in it). Then I make a proper pencil drawing - this is my favourite stage. The only way I can work is to keep myself trammelled into a rigidly panelled page - I print out blanks with the frame lines already in place. Sometimes panels will be combined but it always starts out as 8 panels. (The Fate strips, for some reason, I do in a 9 panel grid but as panel 1 is always a title it works out at 8 panels of 'story'.) Then the pencil goes onto the lightbox (a flat LED perspex thing which cost me £30 on eBay and was the best 30 quid I ever spent). Inked up with fineliner pens. White gauche slapped over the worst mistakes, sometime white Post-it note tape for the bigger cockups Post it note tape is BRILLIANT stuff and used to hold drawings onto the lightbox and top of each other with damaging the paper's surface. Then the ink is scanned into Photoshop (Version 7) My 14 year old daughter drives it better than I can. We have a constant to and fro of conversations like: She usually wins. Once it's in Photoshop it's dropped into a template PSD file with all the layers and settings I usually need already set up and labelled. ('Bubbles', 'Bubble tails' 'Whiteout' '25% Grey' etc.) And then 'Coloured' (various shades of grey) and lettered. I have a Wacom tablet. Save. Print out a copy. Give it to my wife who will scribble all over it in a red pen marking typos and goofs, and making suggestions as to how to improve panels. Most of the time she is right and spots all sort of ways of tightening up the writing or redrawing to make things work better. Back to Photoshop. Tweak print edit repeat - a couple more times till we're as happy as we're going to get. Save. Post. I usually have several strips going at once in various stages so when I get bored with doing one process I move on to another. Keeps me off the streets.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 15, 2016 13:02:01 GMT -5
What do you use?
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 14, 2016 17:17:21 GMT -5
I wish I had the patience to work on such a scale and in such detail. (Personally I prefer the black and white drawing.)
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 13, 2016 20:26:12 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 13, 2016 20:16:37 GMT -5
We're using comicprintinguk.com/ We've seen stuff he's printed and he has a very good rep. I've never met the man but we have communicated by mail and he is very helpful. I get the idea he genuinely loves comics. It's not just another print job to him.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 11, 2016 5:08:38 GMT -5
Ask for it by name Thank You! (Consider that joke appropriated.)
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 10, 2016 12:47:32 GMT -5
It was going to be 'ALL NEW! True Life Space Cowgirl Jungle Romance Adventure Stories - for Boys' but the masthead was starting to look a bit cluttered.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 10, 2016 9:47:48 GMT -5
funding has almost reached TWICE what we were wanting which means we may well be thinking about published a second comic. An anthology called True Life Space Cowgirl Jungle Romance Adventure StoriesThis may be the main image for the cover: buster by liam, on Flickr
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 3, 2016 10:01:43 GMT -5
Thanks.
The curve is levelling out now we are funded but it is flattering and heartening that a few people are still pledging.
This means they know they're committed to spending their money. The money WILL go out of their accounts, there's no gamble. They're not doing it out of charity or because they're willing to (possibly) spend a few dollars to help someone achieve a goal. They're buying my comic book.
That's a bit scary.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jun 30, 2016 17:13:16 GMT -5
Thank you! We're currently 91% funded - I suspect I am going to have to actually make this thing.
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