Hey, gang! My latest minicomic is free to read right now! Draw, Draw, Draw is an 8 page examination of the roadblocks and fears that keep me from drawing on a more regular basis. Is it therapy? Maybe!
Check it out here
Well, had a setback already this month, as it seems the company I tried ordering some replacement rollers from was fraudulent. After placing my order for two SynTac 12069 Upper Pullout Rollers on November 3, I didn’t immediately receive an order confirmation and so I wrote to ask about it. My email was forwarded to a third party who told me the order has already been shipped and to wait patiently. Okay, thanks.
Weeks later and still no package, I tried writing them again to try to get a tracking number so I could verify the shipment, but received no response at all from those emails. So, after a solid 30 days I submitted my refund request through Paypal. At least that part was painless, the money is already back in my account. But now I’m left looking for another supplier. These rollers aren’t being manufactured anymore, and so are becoming harder to source. I can find them on ebay for $80-90 apiece, which is a lot more than the $25 each I had paid the unresponsive seller. I think I found another reputable seller with a more manageable price, but I have to wait until I get paid again in another week to try to place that order.
In the meantime, I’m going to go ahead and re-install the seriously worn-out rollers I already have, and start trying out some test printing this next week. I’ve got a lot of projects piled up, waiting to have plates burned and get printed, and I’d love to start checking those off this month! Stay tuned!
My new minicomic: “Make Your Own Minicomic!” features my long-time character Lumpy sharing tips and ideas to help you write, draw, and publish your own minicomics. This 8-page mini takes you through the steps of structuring your story to fit in the 8-page format, explains the pre-press process of laying out your comic for quick and economical duplication, and even gives you tips for how to sell and share your comics with others!
Make Your Own Minicomic is available at itch.io as a Pay-what-you-want DRM-free download in multiple formats.
Hey, gang! Just wanted to put up a quick update of a couple things that have been happening out in the Garage this month.
↓ Read the rest of this entry…Morning, gang! Happy Monday!
Today I’m just taking a quick moment to share another upcoming print project I’ve been working on, something to go along with the Make Your Own Minicomic I showed earlier. This is the ‘Make-a-Mini’ comic-planning journal, and it’s basically a little minicomic-formatted book for planning out and thumbnailing your minicomic ideas. Each page has a simple layout grid template to help you divide your pages evenly into columns or tiers, or unevenly by mixing sizes. I’ve been using these myself for years now, both in minicomic and digest sizes, and it’s how I script and lay out my comics, for the most part. I like to do them at final printed size because it forces me to compress my text and design ideas while making sure that everything will still be legible at the printed size. I will often update text as I’m drawing the final page, but not much.
These minis will be one of the first things I print in the garage once I get the Multilith running smoothly. The interior pages with the layout templates will be printed in light blue, with enough blank pages per journal to thumbnail up to four full 8-page stories. The covers will be printed on various colors of paper, as a visual clue to help remember which journal has which story in it.
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