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Writer of Penny and Aggie, Fans (also called Faans), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and A History of Webcomics. Experienced webcomics editor, currently seeking full-time work and working on strange and interesting new things...Saturday, January 29, 2005
Letter Imperfect.
Done Today: Lettered.
Lettered a lot, actually, finishing 14 FANS pages and prepping about 32 more. In the home stretch now, and these things are always better done in batches.
I'm the only person I know who still uses QuarkXPress to letter comics, which is kind of embarrassing, because I once wrote a guide to cartooning which recommends QXP as a lettering tool. I guess I'll need to roll up my sleeves fairly soon and see what's better out there... I've given myself till spring to come out with a revision to that e-book. Isn't it time, though, that somebody came out with a program designed SPECIFICALLY to letter comics? Is there such a program? I've never heard of it.
Also, finished Part 9 of "The History of Online Comics." It's the money chapter!
Also of note: You know, it's just impossible to convey all the fanboyish reasons why you enjoy watching Justice League Unlimited to your female non-comics-reading schoolteacher roommate.
Lettered a lot, actually, finishing 14 FANS pages and prepping about 32 more. In the home stretch now, and these things are always better done in batches.
I'm the only person I know who still uses QuarkXPress to letter comics, which is kind of embarrassing, because I once wrote a guide to cartooning which recommends QXP as a lettering tool. I guess I'll need to roll up my sleeves fairly soon and see what's better out there... I've given myself till spring to come out with a revision to that e-book. Isn't it time, though, that somebody came out with a program designed SPECIFICALLY to letter comics? Is there such a program? I've never heard of it.
Also, finished Part 9 of "The History of Online Comics." It's the money chapter!
Also of note: You know, it's just impossible to convey all the fanboyish reasons why you enjoy watching Justice League Unlimited to your female non-comics-reading schoolteacher roommate.
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That sort of reminds me of John T. Sladek, a brilliant SF writer whose career was like a concentrated essence of R. A. Lafferty — all of the brilliance and quixotism, with even less mass-market success, if such a thing is possible. Despite years of critical plaudits and the admiration of his peers, it is entirely possible that the most widely-read books he ever wrote were Using XYWrite III and the operator's manual for the Baker fork-lift truck.
Although XYWrite was hopelessly outdated by the time of his untimely death in 2000, I wonder if he continued to use it to write his books. Needless to say, I'm sure that he continued to use a Baker fork-lift truck as a writing tool.
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Although XYWrite was hopelessly outdated by the time of his untimely death in 2000, I wonder if he continued to use it to write his books. Needless to say, I'm sure that he continued to use a Baker fork-lift truck as a writing tool.
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