There it is

By on April 10th, 2015
Posted In: News

Hoo boy. Well, at least everybody’s on the same page now! The same awful page.

Production work on the next print volume of Family Man is coming right along! I now have a final page count (200!), an endpaper pattern (books and moons!) and my next task is to decide on paper stock. Because this comic has a great deal of rich, saturated black as well as pure, un-tinted white, it’s a challenge to find paper thick enough to have black on one side and white on the other without showing through…but light enough to keep the book into a five-pound doorstop with a cracked spine. And because the comic has a lot of dark colors gently transitioning into one another, the paper has to be glossy to keep those tones from flattening out under a matte coating.

These are the thrilling details of book production that you don’t think about when you’re just starting out. I love to think about printers, binders, and other book-handling professionals from centuries past, all grumbling to themselves over similar issues.


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Discussion (6) ¬

  1. Anna
    April 10, 2015 at 1:07 am |

    OUCH!

  2. Nissa
    April 10, 2015 at 9:39 am |

    I think that may be Luther’s best face yet.

    • JK
      April 12, 2015 at 10:41 pm |

      I know, its almost meme-worthy!
      “WHEN YOU FIND OUT YOUR BOSS KNOWS YOU’RE SLEEPING WITH HIS DAUGHTER”

  3. Rachel
    April 10, 2015 at 11:28 am |

    OH snap!

  4. Victoria
    April 10, 2015 at 5:53 pm |

    I have never had such a instantly physical reaction to something I’ve read. At the second panel, my stomach plummeted, and by the time I reached the third to see Luther’s own reaction, my face had grown cold and tight the same way it does when I’m about to be physically ill. Dylan Meconis, you continue to amaze me.

  5. Amelia
    April 12, 2015 at 11:52 pm |

    A small, naive part of me keeps hoping that Nolte isn’t that upset about Luther and Ariana. “People are more honest when they’re drunk, right? He doesn’t seem so mad, right? Just drunk. Nobody’s going to end up in a bad way, right? Riiiight..?”

    But yes, that face is brilliant. Quite a punch to the gut.