Bruce Timm

Bruce Timm was another source of inspiration with his visuals being art deco inspired. And visually it suits the context of a 1930's setting with his miminalist angular style is heavily based on his passion for 50's 60's era comic books and art deco architecture.

Darwyn Cooke

Darwyn Cooke is another artist whio is quite similar to Bruce Timm with a clear inspiration from 50's and 60's era comics, though he does more comic based work whereas Bruce does mostly animation. His work on the Parker series proved most influential as it was a crime based novel so compositionally it would be similar to what we would aim to capture in our comic. His backgrounds tend to be quite simplistic in nature but again the viewrs mind can fill in the gaps and fully create what is being suggested by the line work.

Final Spread - test

Just testing my favourite spread, blogger is working again!

Testing typeface

Hey guys! Do you think this typeface works? Much love, Benj

Printing & reproduction

As our comic draws nearer to completion (yeeeeeah boys!), there's a few things we'll need to consider about the printing process.

• What is the page count going to be in total with all our pages, are we going to add extra?
• Is there going to be back covers as well as front covers?
  

• Are we going to print A5 or American Comic book format (17x26cm)?
• What type of paper are we going to print on?
• Are we going for high quality (e.g. from The Hub) or just normal Uni printers?

We probably need to get the whole thing together in InDesign by Sunday evening to print on Monday.

Take care guys =) See you soon

Info on my story so far...

Technicality wise I have used market deco from da font website as well as bellerose for title type. Also stroke on the bubbles is 10. Also Benj 'red' does not scream curses instead i have left it silent since i felt the images and monologue carry and convey his emotions more than a verbal outburst.

Carlo

There you go, Benj, here's the idea of Carlo's character, as I mentioned before, is a silly looking guy, big forehead, Lennon look-like glasses, rather big ears and silly hat. I guess he's wearing cheap suit, classic shape, nothing complicated.

For the purpose of our comic I'll be only using the part of the third page in the red square. I had to shrink the conversation between these two characters to save some space, it didn't really deserve page and a half, that wouldn't be necessary.

The rest of the third page is here, as I said, I squeezed it into three panels, rather dedicate a whole page to it.

And here's the fourth page and beginning of the fifth one: