Making progress!
We are living interesting times. The USA has chosen its next president and our comic zine will be sent to the printing next week. We have already drawn the content of our work, and before printing we need to decide the order of the pages and what should the cover be like. Of course, there’s still PR-work, Taidekuja-event and the publishing event on 29.11 at least. We were also present at the Oulu Comics where we had a table promoting our project. We are all very exhilarated about this!
In this post I decided to tell you about some challenges and tough decisions we have faced during this project and how we solved them. We discussed whether there should have been references in the comic bubbles or only at the end of our work in one page. The bubble reference solution would have represented the more academic approach, but it would have decreased the entertainment value. Eventually we decided that it is enough to have the references at the end which works best for the comic format .
Also, we wondered what printing house we should use and whether we use colors. Later it was revealed to us that there’s a group of printing houses that our university is only allowed to use, so we chose the cheapest one. Don’t worry, the quality won’t suffer! We decided also to use only black and white because it was cheaper. Believe me, we don’t have an infinite amount of money in this project. The covers will still be colorful. We also saved money when we were allowed to use our university’s printer to print our posters seen at the Oulu Comics. In addition, I couldn’t use the Ames –comic font for my own work because the campus computers didn’t support it, and I didn’t have Photoshop at home. Luckily one of the members of our team could insert the text into the bubbles because the work was in Drive, so that problem was solved too.
Happy autumn and remember to follow us also in Instagram!
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| Our posters at Oulu Comics! |
-Jere Kesti-Helia, PR-team
