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Format your Artwork:

Draw your comic, using whatever materials you choose. Make sure your artwork is the appropriate proportion for your pages. For example, a typical sheet of printer paper is 8.5" x 11". A typical mini-comic page is a fourth of that size, 4.25" x 5.5". However, the proportions of the pages are the same, so you can work at 8.5" x 11" and it will reduce nicely down and fit on your 4.25" x 5.5" pages.

One think you'' probably want to keep in mind when drawing your pages is to leave a gutter (empty space) around the artwork on the pages of at lease a quarter of an inch. Copiers don't generally print on the edges of pages, and hand trimming pages doesn't always produce a perfectly consistent cut line, so you will appreciate the "wiggle room" of some empty space.

If you want to have your artwork go right to the edge of the pages ("bleed"), you can do so by cutting the finished books to the edge of the gutter with a cutting board... keep in mind that this is very labor intensive, though! In fact, it's just the sort of obsessive-compulsive task that many mini-comics artists adore!

Layout Your Pages

Layout the artwork on the page template, Laying out on a computer is great if you know how, but the typical mini-comic is pretty low-tech. Usually, mini comics are laid out at the copy shop.

To lay out your comic, reduce the artwork to the size you want your pages (assuming you didn't draw directly on a template) and cut the artwork out and adhere it to the appropriate numbered page on the template using a glue stick or rubber cement.

Clean up your Pages

Once you get your pages laid out, you'' probably want to copy them again and clean them up before making your final copies. This way you can touch up any lines that show up in the copying that you may not want there... often the cut edges of artwork will show up and you can cover these on the copies with whiteout.

Keep in mind, however, that each generation you copy, the artwork loses resolution... a copy of a copy of a copy gets muddier and muddier and muddier, so the fewer times you have to make copies between your original artwork and the final publication, the better. Unless of course, you like muddy, in which case copy and copy and copy away!


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Making Comics

It is beyond the scope of this booklet to provide a lesson on the art of writing and drawing comics. At a basic level, it is very easy though. Whatever tools you are comfortable with for making marks on paper will do the trick. At the bare minimum, you'll want a pencil and paper. A pen, eraser and whiteout is nice.

For learning more about the art of making comics we highly recommend these books:

Making Comics by Scott McCloud
Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner

Don't get intimidated if you don't think you are particularly good writer or a good artist. Comics combine writing and art, and a bad writer or bad artist can still be a good cartoonist. One of the most popular and prolific mini=comics artists of all time, Matt Feazell, uses stick men in all his comics. The only way to get good at something is to practice... writing, drawing and cartooning are all learned skills that anyone can do.
The rule of thumb for drawing comics (or making any kind of art) is USE WHAT WORKS.

Kevin Cannon www.kevincannon.org www.bigtimeattic.com


Making a Mini Comic

Tools: Scissors, Tape, Rubber Cement, White Out, Copier, Cutting Board, Stapler

STEP 1: Plan your Comic

Plan out your page layout, and how you want the format to come together. Do you want to do an 8 page xeroxed comic? A 16 page silkscreened booklet? A 200 page epic the size of a postage stamp? It's good to figure out how you're going to put it together before you get started.

You'll probably want to lay out a template of the pages before you draw... and one way to work is drawing directly on a template. Keep in mind that if you do this, artwork will not appear as crisp as it would if you worked on a larger size and then reduced it. However, this is the fastest way to work.

(Rin's Note: Resizing is still the most fullfilling result, and I highly suggest it.)

You'll want to number your pages to keep track of the order... if you don't want numbers on the final comic, you can use a non photo blue pencil, which will not reproduce when copied.

Bob Lipski www.uptowngirlcomic.com

Page numbering can get confusing, especially with longer comics, since the page layout is not sequential until it is made into a booklet.

For more information on [age number construction checkout this recource as well.
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