Sijun Forums :: View topic - Victorian-esque comic thingie

Siftland · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2001 7:23 pm

I've been working on this story in my sketchbook. It's all out of my head and roughly halfway done (7 out of 15 pages). I brought them into photoshop and did and bit of tonal stuff...Anyway, I'm wondering whether you people like this or find it at all interesting. It's kind of just an experiment.

Here's the title page and a link to the first 7 pages:

Link to first 7 pages

jr · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2001 6:59 pm

color? we don't need no stinkin color!, good work zach, why don't you post some of the other pictures?

Teyon · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2001 7:09 pm

I agree! Color is great and all but monochrome images can be just as cool. I'd like to see more of this myself.

*Mighty Pea · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Feb 2001 Posts: 10

beautifull.

*m

Siftland · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2001 7:37 pm

Wow...That's one of the most flattering things I've ever heard about my work! Thank you!! You are quite kind!

I'm very pleased that I could help you. I just hope I don't mess the thing up by the time I finish it...hehe....

I want to print it in comic form when I get done...Which will be January. But I know nothing about this sort of thing. At Kinko's I can print 4 2-sided color 11x17 pages (the number I need) for 8 bucks.....Not cheap....anyone know of any tips or tricks getting comics (color is needed, in this case) printed fairly cheaply?....I don't really want to make a profit, I just want to ship in out to a few places...Nothing grand.

But I am happy that you like what I have so far *Mighty Pea...And that you connected with the writing/story so well...Frankly, it blows me away. Thanks again!

Indian_Prophet · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2001 7:49 pm

Well I've done a bit of comic work meself but doing comics by method of printing shops is not good unless you are only interested in making a few copies to add to a portfolio or something because you're not making your money back. Now if you want tt produce a comic to sell, thats another story. You will have to find a print press company and they'll prob only do a limit of 500-1000 minimum which in turn should only cost you roughly anywhere between 500-1000 dollars. NOTE if there is any color at all, you might as well double your production costs if not triple. You can easily go over at 3.00 dollars a comic which is not what you want. You want to keep it down to 60 to 1.00. In order you might be able to turn over a profit because you only have a small number of pages which means people won't pay too much for it. So if your just starting out...well...make it a black and white comic maybe with a few colors for the cover but even that is costly.

cptoonz · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2001 8:10 pm

Siftland,

That is an awesome story you have developing there...I dig it! I really like the style and the brown/monochrome thing (is there a formal description for that???) you have going on there.

The only "inde press" that I know of is http://radiocomix.com/index.html
and they only do b&w as far as I know...however, they might know someone that can do your monochrome, or work with you, it never hurts to ask...but that's my $.02, and its worth what you paid for it

Anyway, I'd love to see the conclusion and good luck!

Peace out,
craig

Siftland · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2001 12:31 am

Thanks! I'm trying to keep a constant throughout the comic as far as (the lack of)color.

Everyone does realize there is a link there to 7 more images right? I realize that the title page may not be all that impressive, but it's keeping a consistancy with the rest of the pages...So does that explain the lack of responses?...or do you not like it? If it's bad I'd like to know that as well.

Maybe I should post the whole thing in the thread...They are quite large though...

Thanks to jr and Teyon.