Our cover illustration for Walking the Lethe Volume 1 is complete and the files off to the printer for the creation of the proof copy prior to our final print run. This is exciting, so today I share with you the cover illustration and the elements we added to make it into a proper cover. [...]
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Printing Walking the Lethe Volume 1: A Look at the Cover
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Printing Walking the Lethe: Setting Up InDesign
Video two of Printing Walking the Lethe is all about how I set up our manuscript in InDesign. I talk about opening a new document, how to use Master pages, placing text and images, and saving the file as a PDF. The result will, we hope, be a handsome looking book. InDesign was a little [...]
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Printing Walking the Lethe: Picking Pages
We are currently going through the exciting process of compiling our first volume of Walking the Lethe, consisting of the first 4 chapters of our story. It’s a lot of fun and a lot of work, so I thought I’d share some of those steps with you. Today, a brief discussion of the types of [...]
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Tips & Tools for the iPad Friendly Website
A client recently pointed out that Sweet & Sour Grapes looks pretty good on the iPad, and got me thinking about making future sites attractive on that platform as well as typical browsers. With it’s high resolution and rotating screen, many webcomic sites already look decent on the iPad without any changes. For those of [...]
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