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Man, figuring out printing stuff is hard! I got the cheap Lulu print version in the mail yesterday (the one priced at $7), and it is unusable. I'd figured just as much, since it was printed on unbonded 20# paper, so yeah -- basically it looks like wrinkly newsprint. But an 80-page full color comic printed on 28# laser is priced at $18-20, which is Way Too Much. I found one sketchy site that can do it for $10, but the minimum order is 6 at $20 each (it doesn't drop to $10 unless I order 40 copies), and I *definitely* want a test print first.

So I find myself going back to Ka-Blam. I can do it in 2 booklets -- a 40-page one collecting the first 2 chapters, and a 32-page one collecting the 3rd one. Each one will be about $4, which comes out to be $8 total...

But in other news, I'm now much less scared of the slightly-varying page sizes because I'm learning how to use InDesign! Need an extra 1/4" trim? No problem! I just have to tweak 2 numbers and re-export! And having Master Pages that I can just place images into? Soooo great.

(Although I don't quite get why everything is in picas. :-/)

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I'MMMMMM DOOOOONNNNNNEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!


::runs by with crazed look::



(Yes, this is referring to Tisquantum.)

((And no, I'm not actually done. But I've sent the last pages to beta. And so the final scene that I vaguely imagined a year and a half ago -- is done.))

(((When I first imagined that scene, I thought it'd be on the boat, about 20 pages in. And now it's page 71. ::huffs::)))


I can't believe I finally got here.

What's left is all the tedium of editing:
- add sepia to the first 11 pages
- fix little bits of dialogue here and there
- fix font sizes and stuff
- collate historical notes for printing
- draw covers for issues 1 and 2
- wait for the test print to show up so that I can do final sepia tweaks
- make the pdfs
- make the print order and hope it gets here in time
- realize there's so many things wrong with it
- suffer bouts of self-doubt for the rest of eternity
- never read the actual printed booklets
- sell at APE regardless