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I have been pretty hard at work during my lunch breaks to make this book. It’s pretty slow going and you likely won’t see the first page printed until several months from now. My current plan is to release it after I’m done with the whole thing. I’d like that to be on July 31 of this year, but that doesn’t seem very likely. Especially with how my arm is acting up after only doing just the thumbnails of the pages.
I need a sweatshop of dedicated, highly skilled cartoonists who are willing to work for decent coffee and no prospect of any sort of profit.
Anyway, while this book is going to be published and available through Lulu.com, I am not creating it for the masses or for any sort of acclaim. I’m making it for my nieces and nephews, and maybe my own children if I have any.
From here on out, while I have a day job, that’s the audience for my comics.
But it should have fairly broad appeal anyway.
While you wait for it, you can bide the time by rereading The Dragon & the Radical, for which Blunder Classically is the prequel.
For Blunder Classically I am now sketching out the pages at full size to see if the script fits into the layout and leaves enough room for the imagery and action. At this stage, I typically put the sketched pages into plastic sleeves in a three ring binder so that I can read it like a book, protect my work and easily swap out anything that doesn’t work.
When I start creating the originals to be scanned, they get put in over the sketches. And then prints of the final files.
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