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.