As per Lyle's suggestion, since my workweek next week gets a tad hectic, I am posting the artwork for the proof-of-concept comic (a la .swf) that I was working on. I'll edit this post to update it when new pages are complete, and I'll put a link to the final, self-printing edition (we still have to reconcile some printer differences and A4/Letter quirks, but it's promising). Four pages are done, so far (one full duplex, digest-folded page total).

That's all so far. Special thanks to fonthead for the Orion font.

jason

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Graphically, the comic is a good example of the raster->vector conversion effect. I'm assuming you drew it by hand, then scanned it, then used Flash's bitmap-tracer? It's good for the artists to see how broad the visual style will have to be to prevent its suffering from the vectorisation.

As for the comic itself, you're certainly tipping your hat to Mr McCloud...

I get all excited in the pit of my stomach when I see physical representations of the Lo-Fi project. It is only by physically 'making this happen' that we will be able to make this happen'

Also, as far as vectorising goes, everybody should work in the medium they feel most comfortable in and not worry cramping style so it vectorises well.

If art comes from the artist bitmapped, either from a paint program or a scan, it will stay bitmapped, right the way through the production process and into the final book.

page 7: "newstands" should be "newsstands."

Page 6 is now up. I should really be asleep instead. Haven't drawn for this comic much because I've been working on JC!'s flyer and rstevens' Indie Rock Pete miniseries (which may actually see publication by the end of the year...), as well as the travails of real life.

In a couple weeks I'll get around to turning it into the self-printing .swf it always wanted to be.