HiEx book is finally underway

I knew from the start of making this comic that I had to draw the pages in high-resolution. What I didn't do off the bat was assemble the final print-ready pages when the web versions were done. This came in part from not knowing what company I was going to choose to print my comics. Each one I've seen requires a different file format, different trim/bleed dimensions, only prints in specific sizes, etc.   Also, the pages were drawn in A5 proportions, but in 7.5x11", which do not translate well when slapped traditional comic book page sizes, and the high-res pages were split with the artwork being in Paint Tool SAI files and the text and word balloons being in Photoshop files.   With all the copying, pasting, cropping, layer merging and consistency edits needed to be done, putting this comic together for print was going to be a mess, and it is something I have worked on in pieces for a few months now.

Then there was the proposed artbook I was going to make as a donation incentive. In the end, I decided to make the art book and the comic a thing put together.

Originally, I had skipped last week's comic update because of a new video game addiction, but that game was completed before the weekend, and the weekend was spent juggling between spending time with my mother, and learning Adobe InDesign, both to land a job in desktop publishing and to put this book together (Scribus was not working out for me). The 88 high-res pages done so far were all assembled in Photoshop and JPG files and the "Master Page" feature in InDesign made things so much easier.

Now with the pages set up and the art book text written, all that's left to do is to finish this chapter, work on the bonus comics, and make some new character drawings.

I'm looking at a completion date sometime in the summer, but with the time constraints I have, my webcomics may be facing a month or two hiatus in the near future to get this book done.