So Hollie Smith and Rowena Sharp had a table space at Thoughtbubble, and asked if I wanted to contribute some stuff to sell with them. Having wanted to secure my own table, though simply not having the funds to secure one at the time, I was super excited about the idea of getting some work on show and agreed to get some things printed in time.
However, Due to work on other modules going on at the same time as this, I hadn't put much thought into actual content I was going to display. I knew I had a book that i'd done in first year for my Visual Narratives that I was interested in selling - 'Running on Full/Empty', but I was at a loss as to what else I could take.
I decided to make two new publications to take with me, one Hot Dog book, One comic. The hot dog book became 'Blue Vines' - A book I created following the day-to-day routine of a girl called Blue.
I was pretty pleased with the outcome of the book because It was drawn entirely with markers, and its rare i've ever managed to make something somewhat refined using analogous media before. I also made a pattern to go on the inside of Hot Dog Books, so the white wouldn't shine through the paper when it was folded up.
Because of them both being in colour, Running on Empty/Full and Blue Vines ended up costing me the most in productions costs - and ended up selling the least on the day. Collective printing for both came about £15, as I printed 15 copies of each.
As for the comic I decided to make as well, I developed and wrote a short, six page story called "Cat God" - about Sehkmet, Goddess of Warfare in Upper Egypt (Paralleled with Bastet, the God of warefare and protection from Lower Egypt) - trapped in the body of a domestic housecat in 21st Century britain.
I trialled with lots of different ways the story worked - I originally planned for them both to reincarnated as cats before settling on just the one cat, seen in the above development sketches - largely as I didn't think 6 pages would be sufficient to develop it front to back.
I knew I definately wanted the comic to be in Black and white, largely to save further costs on printing after printing Blue Vines and Running on Empty/Full. I made the comic with this in mind - digitally using a greyscale texture I made to add depth and values to the lines, so it didn't look too plain (kind of in a similar manner to how traditional comic & manga artists used screentones to help add depth to their pages)
I printed 25 copies of "Cat God", which even though were printed in black and white - still came to around £6 to be printed. I wanted to cover the comics with a slightly nicer stock than the printer paper to add a bit more value to them, which ended up being the total price of production to nearer £15.
All production took about a week. I was still folding comics pretty much up to the wick of friday night before the convention - which was definately not professional practice, but I ended up rocking up to the con with 15 copies of Running on Full/Empty, 15 Copies of Blue Vines priced at £3, and 25 copies of Cat God priced at £4.
I trialled with lots of different ways the story worked - I originally planned for them both to reincarnated as cats before settling on just the one cat, seen in the above development sketches - largely as I didn't think 6 pages would be sufficient to develop it front to back.
I knew I definately wanted the comic to be in Black and white, largely to save further costs on printing after printing Blue Vines and Running on Empty/Full. I made the comic with this in mind - digitally using a greyscale texture I made to add depth and values to the lines, so it didn't look too plain (kind of in a similar manner to how traditional comic & manga artists used screentones to help add depth to their pages)
I printed 25 copies of "Cat God", which even though were printed in black and white - still came to around £6 to be printed. I wanted to cover the comics with a slightly nicer stock than the printer paper to add a bit more value to them, which ended up being the total price of production to nearer £15.
All production took about a week. I was still folding comics pretty much up to the wick of friday night before the convention - which was definately not professional practice, but I ended up rocking up to the con with 15 copies of Running on Full/Empty, 15 Copies of Blue Vines priced at £3, and 25 copies of Cat God priced at £4.
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