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Printing Walking the Lethe Volume 1: A Look at the Cover

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: 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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Can Long-Form Comics Avoid Scrolling?

Ah scrolling. The bane of webcomickers everywhere and the cause of sleepless nights to those who fear the mucky depths below the fold. Modern readers are willing to stroll, especially if you clue them in, but planning for the amount of scrolling your readers will do is just good manners. Creators of long form comics [...]

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Props: Pages & Extras for Webcomics

Welcome to the penultimate article in the KISS: Usability & Webcomics 101 series. Today, pages and extras for your webcomic site. Now that we’ve run down the basic parts of a webcomic site and some of the ways you can make it more user-friendly, we’ll wrap up this KISS 101 series with a few nice [...]

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