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(originally posted to Diaryland.com, 2003-10-02 - 10:54 p.m.)
Nothing great to report -- still working on "Captain Canuck", but now taking a break to lay flats on some pages for another colorist. The kicker is, I'm getting paid the same amount for the flats I'm laying as I am on the finishes for "CC". $40 per page is a horrible rate for finished pages, but it IS in support of Canadian comics, and the art is quite decent. Although the artist on "CC" has never done comics before, and it shows in the sameness of some of his compositions, it's actually not that bad.
Yesterday I got the comps (complimentary copies) on "Girl Genius" #9, though I had to pay $9 and change to get them since the person shipping them valued the package at full retail value -- d'oh! Since I'm not reselling them, it would have been fine to value the package of 10 comics at $5 (as opposed to $42). Repeat after me: "The GST sucks." :-P
They printed quite light, which has me curious. It looks like the printer dropped the overall saturation of the pages by about 15%. Even odder, page 1 printed at the right saturation levels, but every other page in the book took the hit... oh, the mysteries of printing.
If you're curious, you can check out "Girl Genius" at http://www.studiofoglio.com -- be sure to click on "Agatha Heterodyne and the Electric Coffin", which is the first 8-pager I colored for "GG" and is available to read on the net. Meanwhile, back to flatting!
Nothing great to report -- still working on "Captain Canuck", but now taking a break to lay flats on some pages for another colorist. The kicker is, I'm getting paid the same amount for the flats I'm laying as I am on the finishes for "CC". $40 per page is a horrible rate for finished pages, but it IS in support of Canadian comics, and the art is quite decent. Although the artist on "CC" has never done comics before, and it shows in the sameness of some of his compositions, it's actually not that bad.
Yesterday I got the comps (complimentary copies) on "Girl Genius" #9, though I had to pay $9 and change to get them since the person shipping them valued the package at full retail value -- d'oh! Since I'm not reselling them, it would have been fine to value the package of 10 comics at $5 (as opposed to $42). Repeat after me: "The GST sucks." :-P
They printed quite light, which has me curious. It looks like the printer dropped the overall saturation of the pages by about 15%. Even odder, page 1 printed at the right saturation levels, but every other page in the book took the hit... oh, the mysteries of printing.
If you're curious, you can check out "Girl Genius" at http://www.studiofoglio.com -- be sure to click on "Agatha Heterodyne and the Electric Coffin", which is the first 8-pager I colored for "GG" and is available to read on the net. Meanwhile, back to flatting!
