As I mentioned before, I’m trying to put together an Ashcan, or Minicomic of Marooned. The trick has been converting them to a B&W version that looks good enough while printed on these high end xerox machines. Doing a straight conversion using filters or modes just didn’t work for my taste. I finally decided to just use a very simple gray palette and minimally color them. Then I worked in a bit of the “new” design with a chalk brush for the sky. I printed out a test and I’m fairly happy with how it came out. I’d be happy to hear your thoughts.
My idea at this point is to make fairly small versions of them, with some notes about the comics and a color copy that is an all original drawing. Each comic would have something unique in it – whether or short extra comic or development drawings or whatever.
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I don’t understand the last paragraph…
Tom-
That looks good. I think you are on the right track. I’m looking forward to the finished comic.
Dan
Lemme clarify – by small versions I meant “small editions” – doh. Making a little prototype, it looks like 6 pages works well, the top page color and the 5 inside pages folded over, they give me like 20 pages to work with.
It would be just the right size to have enough comics and be stapled and compact enough to handle and mail easily. So maybe there’d be something like 16 strips in there, plus some bonus strip and maybe something special for the big page in the middle – not quite sure yet.
Make better sense?
spiffy!
I think it goes to greyscale rather nicely.
What is this high end Xerox machine you speak of? Is it that much cheaper than just doing B&W with a POD service? It seems like with POD, you’d at least be able to print in higher fidelity so that you don’t have to alter your artwork so much for B&W. Nemu-Nemu prints their collections in B&W. All they do is covert to grayscale and then mess with the S-curve a little. It obviously doesn’t look as good as color, but still looks nice.
Well by high end xerox – I simply mean the copy machines they have in Staples/kinkos/etc. They are super nice laser printers, but yeah, just laser printers.
What I might do once I get the first one done is find out how much it would be for the PODs – then maybe I can have a “next level” up of product. So it would be a bit nicer, but of course, a bit more expensive.
But this way, I can make them cheaply and easily – and rather quickly, on my own and consequently, I can sell them for a very reasonable amount.
I think I will even do some artist editions where I’ll buy a ream of nicer paper, and offer a sketch along with it for a few extra bucks.
I think this is a great idea!
There’s something inherently fun about mini-comics, I’m not sure why.
Perhaps because it takes me back to childhood when I’d read the mini-comics that came with He-man toys.
Yeah mini comics that came with toys were fun for sure. Thanks M!
Beautiful! I love it. I hope this doesn’t offend but I think I prefer it.
Not at all Daniel. There’s something to be said for simplicity.
Cool idea. They should be able to be shipped via first class mail which should be fast and cheap.