Hello ! I am just checking in on the progress of the next project, which is the Print-on-demand book. I am ordering a perfect-bound, comic book sized paperback from lulu.com of my short story, "Swept." I illustrated 15 pages, and produced a humorous, and embellished fiction romance about a man who can't settle down in one place because he gets swept away as soon as he's comfortable.
As I am looking around at the blogs today, it seems like most of the class is a little behind in this project with deadlines and the timeline our teacher gave us, which is great for me because I found Spring Break was a little too short, and it's Spring semester so with all the colds/flus/allergies going around, I was under the weather and feeling ill slowed down my progress as well.
As soon as I have the pdf link available I will post it; however, seems like there may be a problem accessing lulu.com has a page that says "Access Restricted." Hmmm... I will have to explore that later, I'm off to my next course!
link:
www.lulu.com
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
"A Survivor's Encomium:" The Zine Edition
All my classmates know, that for the zine project I expanded my minibook, "A Survivor's Encomium" to a 11 page zine. Thanks to the suggestion from our teacher!
Making a zine turned out a lot harder than I thought. Or how it looks! I had some challenges with margins, white space, putting together completely straight text, and printing. The overall result was: Room for improvement. There ended up being a typo on one page and no back cover because of the size of the paper. I couldn't figure out how to give a classy looking backcover since all the cardstock I could find is regular size.
For putting together the zine while ill it turned out pretty good. For distrobution, I exchanged zines with my colleagues and gave one to my teacher. My family ends up with a copy and I have two left over to give out. I am mailing one to the writer S.L. Wisenberg and to my former teacher, poet Simone Muench. For the next project, I am going to do a print-on-demand work. It's a longer work, that gets professionally published by lulu.com or another similar company.
My original thought it to send out after illustrating a short story I wrote and am fond of called, "Swept." It's a comedy/romance about a man who has a hard time staying in one place.
Making a zine turned out a lot harder than I thought. Or how it looks! I had some challenges with margins, white space, putting together completely straight text, and printing. The overall result was: Room for improvement. There ended up being a typo on one page and no back cover because of the size of the paper. I couldn't figure out how to give a classy looking backcover since all the cardstock I could find is regular size.
For putting together the zine while ill it turned out pretty good. For distrobution, I exchanged zines with my colleagues and gave one to my teacher. My family ends up with a copy and I have two left over to give out. I am mailing one to the writer S.L. Wisenberg and to my former teacher, poet Simone Muench. For the next project, I am going to do a print-on-demand work. It's a longer work, that gets professionally published by lulu.com or another similar company.
My original thought it to send out after illustrating a short story I wrote and am fond of called, "Swept." It's a comedy/romance about a man who has a hard time staying in one place.
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