On Demand Comics
3mo
Gannon Beck
It's been a while since I've done on-demand comics, but recently I had a few comics printed of my rough draft story.
I like to letter my roughs so that I can get a good idea if the story of is working or not. It's easier to make changes at this stage when I've only spent an hour or two on a page. At this stage, I'm looking to see how it fits together, make edits, and see what I want to change before the polished draft.
I'm not associated with them in any way, but I have to say that the service at Ka-blam is pretty great. There are no minimums, and it was pretty easy to follow the templates and instructions to get them the files. I'm not sure what other companies are out there, but on-demand is a good way to get your book into print.
Gannon, that looks amazing! Just seeing these two pages makes me want to read it.
Ayal! How have you been?
And thanks. I'll have to see about getting you a PDF once I've done an edit on it. Even though it's rough, there are more typos than I'd like.
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3mo
Dude... This is awesome!! These are really well developed, beautiful storytelling, reads at thumbnail size. Can't wait to see this on the rack! Great tip to print out a rough proof like this, I'd love to hear your experience from seeing the drafts printed! What have you taken back to the drawing board?
The experience of getting the drafts printed was really good. I only did ten, but as I hand them out, I'm telling everyone to let me know about the typos they find.
The quality of the printing is very good. I remember seeing Ka-Blam's printing many years ago and not being overly impressed. The technology has come a long way since then. It seems to me from a quality perspective, the gap has been bridged between traditional and on-demand printing, at least for comic books.
If you want to do comics, on-demand comics are a good place to start. One application of it is that if you put together a book of your work, you can hand them out to prospective collaborators and editors to get your name out there.
