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Archive for June, 2010
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Yes, that’s the cover to Gifted. Well, as close to a cover as you get when you’re planning on “going digital.” There’s a lot of talk about that nowadays, and we did some of that on the third episode of the Super-Fly Comics podcast and today it kind of exploded with the announcement that the latest Iron Man annual will be available on Marvel iPad/iPhone digital apps the same day that it’s available in comic shops.. It’s all great talk to have about the future, and I again find myself in the position of someone who feels one way as a shoopkeep (I’m worried it will hurt my business) and a creator (I’m excited at the possibilities in reaching a global audience on the cheap).
In any case, expect me to keep mucking about with site layout as I try to get a handle on the new theme. The other night I reconfigured a bit of the Gifted script as I get closer to the idea of digital publication. What it means is that I had envisioned the series as 6 22 to 24 page issues, and those types of issues have to be told in a certain format. However, if this is going to be published more long form with bigger “chapter breaks” then that means that some of the story has to be tweaked a bit, especially if we’re going to be publishing in a one page at a time pace. Right now that translates into 65 pages of script, 22 of which have been penciled and lettered, three more just penciled. I’ve got probably another 66 pages of which that will now need to be reconfigured for digital publication (basically, three more issues of story). I’ll now endeavour to convert a page to art-ready script a night, so we’ll see how that goes.
All hands, brace for impact…
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So what’s up with only wanting to blog when I’m all cranky & irritable & emotional and period-y? It sucks and makes me sound like a douche.
Anyway, in trying to get my writing life back on track I created a schedule for publishing Gifted online. When I say “online” I mean here because why go anywhere else, right? Right now we have 25 pages of art, most of which are lettered and processed to a point where I like them. In the end, I have to tell myself that’s what matters. That and finally putting someone out there for a mass audience so it can be greeted with the kind of scorn, derision, ridicule and indifference that the internet can provide. Of course, this means I have to get my artist in line with this new schedule. I think we can make it happen, and I think that once the reality of publishing set in I think things will change.
Or they’ll fail horribly and I’ll have to go back to square one. Again. I guess I just have to try something, and even if it doesn’t work out and I have to find another artist, or the schedule goes off the rails I’ll know that I tried something.
I don’t want to come off as pessimistic, because I believe in this story, I believe in the art and I think it’s getting better page after page. I think we can pull this off, but like every creative endeavor I have doubts. Mostly self-doubt, but doubt none the less. It’s going to happen, it will happen, and I need to remind myself that no matter how it starts it has to start sometime. It might as well be now.
Or July. Definitely July.
Probably.