We received the proof copy today and it’s good to go! Except for one or two small things that you will never notice. Find them! Fun party game.
I can’t say enough good things about Kablam. Their prices are much more reasonable than Lulu’s, and there’s a lot less setup goofiness. Lots of that is from their insistence that each page be its own flattened TIFF file, which kind of throws off my Indesign groove. Still! Can’t argue with the results.
The best thing about Kablam is that their price for a 24-page full-colour comic is dramatically less than Lulu’s price for a 24-page black and white comic. So we’ve already resized Diaperman #13 (slightly more wide, you’ll never notice that either) and we’ll put it up in the Kablam store as soon as we approve the proof copy of that.
So! Diaperman #14! Written by Michael McAdam, drawn by Jeremy Thew, coloured by me. Five bucks! You can buy it online, or from us directly at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, which is the centre point of awesome for western Canada and possibly the world.
My art blog has been quiet lately! That’s because all of my art time has been taken up colouring Diaperman issue 14, but as of last night that’s all finished.
Michael has a few pages to letter still, but it’s close! And it’ll be available at our table at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. And our table number? D14. I know right.
Now I can work on other things: first up is my Comic Expo artbook submission, then a couple of new prints for this year, then a TDA ashcan, then TDA issue 1.
Then, once all that is finished, I’ll be doing a project all on my own! That’s a thing, hey.
Jeremy draws Sleepers’ Mom somewhat differently than I did. (Mine’s the one on the left.)
Michael explains that Sleepers is imagining his mom in the Black Whip’s costume, whereas in the new issue we get to see her as she actually appears. Which would mean that Sleepers is crazy and has a reverse Oedipal complex. Maybe he’ll snap and start Dextering the other characters! I’d read that comic.
I finished the cover for Diaperman #14. I’m up to page ten in colouring, and Jeremy’s up to page 14. We’ve set a due date for January 24, so things are ticking right along!
I’m almost all set for the Central Canada Comic-Con over Halloween weekend! Everything’s packed, and 25 issues of the Spanker comic are on their way! U.S. Postal Service, so hopefully things will work out with that. Hoo! Stressful.
