If you pay a visit to the ‘Webcomics’ link, you will find that I’ve updated the first episode of “Gail Scott: Space Pilot” into something more in keeping with the style of the later episodes.
This has involved a new technique called digital analogue scanovision, wherein I edit out all of the old shading, captions and balloons from the scanned pages, using the Gimp, print the chopped up images onto nice art paper, then draw in the gaps behind the old captions and balloons by hand, and rescan the pages back into the iMac. Then I add the lettering elements back in using Comic Life 2 and the wonderful WebLetter Pro font by Blambot. The results are there to see in the “Who Is Mr Mentor?” section of the webcomics archive.
A byproduct of scanovision is that I also have these pages correctly formatted for the Amazon Kindle device. So expect a complete collection of Gail Scott comics to appear on Kindle soon.
As I am on the topic of the Kindle comics, I’d like to thank all of those people who have been buying the Gail Scott comics over the last few months. This has been very gratifying and is helping the whole project to look much more respectable. If you are enjoying these, I’d be very grateful if you’d post a short review on the Kindle site. That will attract more nice people to come along and read about Gail, Lynn, Sir Robert and Mentor and encourage me to get on with creating volume two. Thank you, all.
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