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12/15/2008 (22 Comments)
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12/15/2008 (22 Comments)

by tiffany ross on December 15, 2008 at 12:00 am
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“What do I do now?” Lexx went back to the relay. For all the training he had received on hundreds of different social situations, none of that training had prepared him for this.
“Uh …” Chel considered what would be the best approach.
“Invite them inside for a tour or something.” Riley popped into their private conversation.
“Would you like to come inside?” Lexx asked politely. He gestured to the door.
Chel looked hopefully at her father, but she could not tell anything from his face. He looked calm.
“Interesting boy … indeed.” Victor was anything but calm inside. He was busily going over the best way to proceed with his suspicions that would not interfere with his job. Lexx looked harmless enough, but Vic knew better.
Keith wasn’t paying attention. He was looking over his shoulder at Swiftpaw. Keith really wanted a closer look. Swiftpaw’s immediate response to be stared at was first to crouch down and try to make himself invisible… without anything to hide behind. Then, he realized that Keith was not likely to do anything to him and was being friendly.
Swiftpaw slunk closer on his belly,then sat up, still a safe distance away, and waved his left wing at the boy.


And yes, for those of you who saw the earlier small update, I went back and put glasses on Chel. I actually had to go back and do that two weeks ago too. ;) Nobody noticed that one. It had been so long since I last drew her with glasses on that I keep forgetting.

Please scroll down for information on the dog tags I may do… if people are interested. Also, if you want to send in some Christmassy type things (or things for the contest) please do. There is only ONE entry for the contest right now.

└ Tags: Chel, Keith, Lexx, Riley, Swiftpaw, Victor

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Dec16

Alien Dice Graphic Novel Take #2 (54 Comments)

by tiffany ross on December 16, 2008 at 1:34 am
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Update: Voting concluded, Method 3 has won. Thank you for suggestions on layout programs. The big issue is that Ka-blam has me doing each page individually in images, although they can also handle pdfs. I will probably try out Scribus.

I’m going to try to get this book up to 200 pages, in color. That will make the final price of a color copy around $25 … unless I get enough orders to do a large print run, then it’ll only be $15.

Ok, I’ve finally finished going over the day 1 text and have begun laying out the book.. only I really need help on this part.  I know which one feels the best to me, but what feels best to me is of little concern.  I need to know how the reading experience would be for everyone ELSE, since you’ll be the ones buying it and I need to choose the best format to sell… since I have to pay for it. :D   PLEASE leave your opinions and note the finished size of book one will be standard comic book sized in full color AND a black and white graphic novel sized version. (The sizes are not up for debate, just the layout.) This is only for the first book, since the rest of the books will have actual, normal sized comic book pages halfway through day 3. :D

NOTE: NO strips or updates would be lost. I’m not sure where people are thinking it’s going to be lost. There are just blank gaps in method 2 on some pages, where nothing went anyway.

BTW, there IS A black and white graphic novel sized book of day 1 available through Keenspot. This one was done with the comic and the text divided. I got a lot of feedback from those who did purchase it that they really wanted the text near the comic instead of in the back of the book. :)

*Additional suggestions I’ve received:
*Make the book a flip book, with the comic on one side, then flip it over with the text on the other.
*Put the comic pages all together and the text all together in two separate sections.
*Making the images larger for method #2 is really not an option because it would result in a LARGE amount of wasted space. Three across and three down is as good of a fit as I can get to make the most use of the space.

I’m starting to think I really need Adobe PDF to do stuff like layouts. :D Photoshop is a pain to do text with and I’m sure I’m ineffecient.

*Option 1 has been removed to bring it down.. rather tightly … to between 2 and 3. I will make my decision based on comments up til this evening. And for clarification: NO images will be removed and the text next to the first image on option 3 is not the actual matching text. ;) It’s just to show text, not the right section or even the indentions I realized. :D

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