Monthly Archives: January 2016

Production: Bindings, bindings bindings!

Yer man Michael Phoenix (@mphoenixuk) asks a question about binding options. It’s a good question. I like it. I’m gonna talk about it. For the purposes of commercial comic printing there are three main types of binding. They are, in

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Process: Getting your comic printed.

You know what this site is missing? A blog post on the process of getting your comics printed. That’s what it’s missing. That seems like something that needs fixing. Step one – Get a quote. Yeah, it’s that bit of

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A visual guide to page scaling.

Two posts in one day. Blimey. Don’t get used to this kind of thing, you guys… Following on from the last couple of posts on the subject of scaling a wild question appears (courtesy of @RobinPierce and ‏@MD_Doodles – thanking

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In praise of the UK Standard size

Following on from our earlier discussion of drawing in scale for print (which was just riveting…) let’s talk a little bit about another peculiarity of printing in the UK, and why you might want to consider the UK Standard size

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On drawing in scale for print

Hello all, happy new year! (Is it too late to say that? It’s mid-January. It’s probably too late to say that.) An interesting question this morning from one Rik Jackson on the topic of drawing to scale. It’s actually a

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