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I'm going to print on a new book, the the Sword of Tiegre and I hate designing back covers. So, I'm offering Free 2" x 1" slots on the back covers.

I keep all my books in print, so as long as there is demand, there will be a book and your ad will be on the back cover of the book.

What's the catch?
There is none. This is a full color 2"x1" ad for free.

If you want a larger space, then you can purchase additional 2" x 1" spaces for $5.

The Sword of Tiegre book is 8" x 10.5"
The book is going to be 52 black and white pages with full color covers and retails for $6. It will feature stories about Tiegre the Warrior Elf. Stories can be found online here: http://warmageddon.com/comics.asp?feature=2

Warmageddon books are PG-13, so we ask that your ads be PG-13.
Ad space will be made available on first come, first serve basis, so reserve your ad space by emailing me at ljamal@ljamal.com. Payments for larger spaces can be sent via PayPal to the same address.

If my math is correct there are a total of 40 spaces available. Time is short on this offer as I will be sending files to the printer no later than March 15th. Reserve your space as soon as possible, but I must have all ads no later than March 10, 2010.

There will be no refunds for paid spaces with ads that are not received.

Ads must be sent as 450 DPI, CYMK TIF with LZW Compression

You can pimp your ride, comics, art, Facebook page, website, projects, services, sell your comics, rent out your dog ... I don't care as long as it's legal and the ad is PG-13.

I'm borrowing this idea from Ed Dukeshire who did this in the pages of FoJ. The idea is that these ads will produce something resembling the old school display ads like this ....

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TAGS : ad space, comic books, old school, Warmageddon

12 December 2009 Warmageddon Editing: Pat Inglebert

Kyle Steele wrote a short 6-paged Warmageddon story featuring Tiegre. I located Italian artist, Pat Inglebert, from his 50 Girl 50 samples and asked him if he would be interested in illustrating the story. He was, we signed some contracts and now we are working on the layouts for the story.

For me layouts are absolutely necessary for building any comic story as they give you a peek inside the artist's head and let you know how he envisions the story. After reading a script, I have usually built a vision of the story in my head and while I try not to let that get in the way of the artist's vision, every now and then I will insist that my way be illustrated. This is not one of those occasions. In fact, there were very few changes needed, but I will step through them from pages 2-4 of the script.

For these images, I did my edits in Photoshop on layers directly over Pat's layouts. Then I merged the layers and created a new JPG to email to Pat. The images on the left are Pat's and on the right are my edits.

Page 2

Panel 3 has the main figures moved down to make room for all the dialogue. We read from left to right and top to bottom, so it's important to keep the reader moving across the top of the panel and into panel 4. Looking at the layout to the right you have the characters speaking leading into the profile in panel 4.

Panel 5 moves the main characters down to the right. This makes room for the dialogue to move to the top and then room to move dialogue from panel 6 to panel 5.

Page 3

Only one change on this page and once again it's to move dialogue to the top of the panel (in panel 5).

Page 4

Panel 1 has the boat moved further to the right. This free up more space so that dialogue can be moved up and so that one piece of dialogue can be moved from panel 2 to 1.

Panel 3 moves the character down on the page so that dialogue moves up.

Panel 5 is flipped to maintain the left to right direction of the row boat.

Panel 7 has the figure moved down so that the dialogue moves up.

I think the most important part of these layouts is the placement of the balloons (bubbles if you're Italian). Without the placement, most of the panel adjustments may have been missed. It's a very important consideration that is often missed with independent comic book production.

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