Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2017 20:19:29 GMT -5
Ok, so kind of a strange question-I have been doing some research on the size of original art for the traditional Sunday comic strip, in particular the adventure strips like the old Flash Gordon strips.
I did manage to find this...
giving a 6 1/4 inch high by 13 inch wide area for the art in Format D, but nothing corroborating this as a standard. I know strips are reproduced much smaller now than in the heydey of the the adventure strips, but does anyone have any info on the standard size for the original art, the proportion of reproduction and the additionally the logistics of uploading/hosting the art as a web strip?
Amy and I have been kicking around an idea for a feature for about 10 years now, looking for the right format and right time to do it, and some conversations I had at Champion City with other creators led to a semi-promise we would put together a sample story to show them by Gem City in the spring, and we hit upon the potential idea of doing it as a web comic in the Sunday adventure strip format for the sample before deciding on the final format we would pursue, giving us a chance to explore some visual storytelling techniques on a small scale before undertaking something bigger, plus the smaller art area of the art board might let us get away with only having a standard size scanner for now (fingers crossed). This is all still in the talking stages, but am trying to do some due diligence to figure out some of the logistical obstacles if we do dive in. The rub is Amy works digitally most times, while I prefer pen, pencil & paper, and I'd be doing the breakdowns while she would do finished art/colors most likely, (she likes to illustrate but not do the work of the sequential art so I'd do the grunt work of that on paper before scanning in-I know I could get away with doing it an size if I wanted and resize it digitally, but having Luddite tendencies I am hoping to cut down on some of the technical headaches by finding a standard size for the art and hope it works with the scanner size we have).
-M
I did manage to find this...
giving a 6 1/4 inch high by 13 inch wide area for the art in Format D, but nothing corroborating this as a standard. I know strips are reproduced much smaller now than in the heydey of the the adventure strips, but does anyone have any info on the standard size for the original art, the proportion of reproduction and the additionally the logistics of uploading/hosting the art as a web strip?
Amy and I have been kicking around an idea for a feature for about 10 years now, looking for the right format and right time to do it, and some conversations I had at Champion City with other creators led to a semi-promise we would put together a sample story to show them by Gem City in the spring, and we hit upon the potential idea of doing it as a web comic in the Sunday adventure strip format for the sample before deciding on the final format we would pursue, giving us a chance to explore some visual storytelling techniques on a small scale before undertaking something bigger, plus the smaller art area of the art board might let us get away with only having a standard size scanner for now (fingers crossed). This is all still in the talking stages, but am trying to do some due diligence to figure out some of the logistical obstacles if we do dive in. The rub is Amy works digitally most times, while I prefer pen, pencil & paper, and I'd be doing the breakdowns while she would do finished art/colors most likely, (she likes to illustrate but not do the work of the sequential art so I'd do the grunt work of that on paper before scanning in-I know I could get away with doing it an size if I wanted and resize it digitally, but having Luddite tendencies I am hoping to cut down on some of the technical headaches by finding a standard size for the art and hope it works with the scanner size we have).
-M
