Comic book freelancing tools and resources
We made some templates! It’s so obvious, when you think about it. Which says something about how little we think, I guess… Saddle Stitched Comic templates, plus bonus poster, postcard, and business card templates. Most of these have instructions for use on them, but in some cases those haven’t made it onto the template for…
Today in our ongoing series “Questions which should have a simple answer, but do not have a simple answer and actually could do with a blog post of tips and hints” I’ll be looking at the cost of printing comics, factors to consider, and ways to reduce your costs. Tomorrow, of course, I’ll be working…
Yer man Michael Phoenix (@mphoenixuk) asks a question about binding options. It’s a good question. I like it. I’m gonna talk about it. For the purposes of commercial comic printing there are three main types of binding. They are, in order of the order I wrote them down in: Saddle Stitched Hitsville UK, by John Riordan and Dan…
Following on from the last couple of posts on the subject of scaling a wild question appears (courtesy of @RobinPierce and @MD_Doodles – thanking you both kindly). It’s all well and good knowing that printing a comic litho at the US Standard size is more expensive than printing it at the CPUK UK Standard, but what does that actually look like? And as a backup…
An interesting question today from one Rik Jackson on the topic of drawing to scale. It’s actually a very useful question, the answer to which is relevant to artists when they’re beginning the process of sketching, so with Rik’s kind permission I’m doing a blog post on it. That blog post is this blog post – how…
Probably the most common comment we see coming through on our quote request form is “Gosh, you sound very well-spoken. I bet you’re devilishly attractive as well.” And it’s true, everyone involved is both stunning and witty. But that’s not really relevant to this post. This post is all about the second most common thing that comes…