L.A.W.L.S.

Sorry that there is no comic today. I’ve been up all night the past few nights doing TONS of work on the book. I’m constantly blown away by how much goes into one of these things. I would have thought that just because I’ve already done the art files that slapping the book together would be a simple as can be… I was wrong. I’ve been doing print tests checking font sizes, positions of design elements, modifying colors to get ready for CMYK Printing and much more. I’m glad to say that I’ve made a good bit of progress… but I’m gonna need this next week or so to work on it to make sure its perfect. This Friday I will be posting a ALT comic that I wrote today and next week will be a mix of guest strips and ALT strips. Hopefully I wont need anymore time than that to finalize this book… but who knows, the world of print is a vast one.

Anyway, I wanted to share some samples with you guys so you can see a bit of what has gone into the book so far:

Above is an example the legal page, a nice little written foreword that I just received from scott yesterday (came out really nice, he said some stuff in it), a splash page and an example of what the comics/commentary will look like. The book at the moment is a little over 150pages.. I don’t have a final count JUST because I keep deciding to add little things into it.. for example, since I’ve been working ahead of time on the sketch rewards from kickstarter, I will be scanning some of my favorites and putting those in the book as well:

I’m a little behind on scanning the most recent ones that I’ve finished so far.. but if you wanna see the ones that I’ve scanned so far, check them out here. Finally here is a better example of exactly what I changed on the cover:

Since I first drew the cover, I’ve grown A LOT artistically and my eye for design has gotten a bit more sensitive to placement and color and such. After having a discussion with Joel on the topic of my cover, he pointed out that I didn’t put the title “L.A.W.L.S.” on it… and that I would regret that if I didn’t. After giving it some thought I gave in and agreed. I had to make some changes to color as well. The blue that I previously used was great for RGB (Compute screens and inkjet printers) but looked TERRIBLE when you’d print it out CMYK… it kept printing WAY darker than I had expected. Overall I’m happy that I made those changes… the test print I have on my desk looks really nice. Though.. even that picture is a bit dated. After inspecting it longer I decided to update the art again, give it a bit more of a “serious tone” if you look closer at the comparison picture above, you’ll see that I’ve made changes to Josephs eyes and Cadence and Autumns faces. They all look a bit more mature/serious… and Cadence looks a bit more feminine now.

Anyway, I need to get back to working on the book. I still have a pile of commentary to write out and tons of little tweaks I’d like to get done tonight…Plus, this next week I’m going to be flattening all the strips and saving them for CMYK and actually saving them out a bit bigger so the art looks bigger, since I recently realized I didn’t need AS big of a bleed area as I originally planned for… which should be an amazing fun adventure! ><

See you guys Friday with a new strip!

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