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Here’s some fun bonus materials for the making of junkyard chase: the designing of the logo. I knew I wanted to use two different fonts: one for each word in the title. The word [...]

After submitting the files to the printer you wait to receive the box. That glorious box filled with your sweat and hard work. And when it arrives you take it upstairs and it’s like your [...]

So now that we’ve selected a printer, we sometimes find that each of them have some different requirements. In Minute Man’s case, they requested that I pre-press my .pdf documents [...]

So we have our final pages (and boy do they look spiffy). Now it’s time to find someplace to print them. Being new to the production side of things, this was kind of a new process for [...]

So Jeong and I agreed on the layout pages, and now was the time for him to move onto the pencils (and eventually, the finished pages). So Jeong went to work, and this is where the role of writer [...]

We have our artist and they’ve provided our character designs. Now it’s time to get into the meat of the project – making comic pages. But how do you communicate the story you [...]

Now that we’ve selected an artist (in this case, Jeong Mo Yang), we start the collaborative process. The first step Jeong and I took were in character designs. I had my list of characters [...]

So you’re a writer with little to no art skills, or you just want to use someone else’s artwork for your comic (like me). This means you need to find, recruit, and work with an [...]

Previously we talked about the building blocks of our story: 1) Generating the idea 2) The elements of plot 3) Developing the characters 4) Writing the beat sheet All of these helps us to create [...]

In the previous entry we established our environment (the junkyard), and figured out who our main characters would be (a robot and a dog), and what their motivations were. Since we had all of [...]