[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-getting-vern-lettuce-ready-for-translation":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Partly what I've been doing today is plain ol' grunt work, prepping my \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> comics for publication in book form, as part of the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=DFC+Library&x=0&y=0\">DFC Library\u003C/a> series. When I was first making the comics, my editor told me not to worry about foreign translations, just to make it a great comic, which, actually, was probably the best thing. (I had way too much else to think about!) But it does mean that there are a lot of things in my strips that can't be used for foreign co-editions, namely coloured text. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vern_conv2-5c25913d6d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe way it works is that \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> will be printed in English, but then if a foreign publisher wants to publish them in another language, it's much cheaper for the printer (and therefore attractive to them) just to lift off a layer of black text instead of fiddling with layers of coloured text. So most of the time, I just need to lift the black lettering onto a separate layer in Photoshop. (Thankfully I've always kept the hand-inked black lines on its own layer.) But sometimes I need to rework a panel, like these ones.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/vern_conv3-f6f8a4cc8c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI thought it might be a problem, but actually, I think these panels look a bit cleaner and classier with just the black text. Relief!\\r\n\\r\nHey, did you hear that the DFC's \u003Cb>Jamie Smart\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://foo5.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">foo5\u003C/a>) has been contracted to make a children's book? Here's posted \u003Ca href=\"http://foo5.livejournal.com/159610.html\">news about it here\u003C/a>. Yay, Jamie! I loved his strip \u003Ci>Fish-Head Steve\u003C/i> and his \u003Ci>DFC Olympics\u003C/i> almost made me incontinent with laughter. \\r\n\\r\nAnother cool thing, \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/deadlyknitshade\">Deadly Knitshade\u003C/a> posted a link to this \u003Ca href=\"http://ow.ly/MHKh\">amazing rabbit graffiti\u003C/a> in Shoreditch.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cdel>Hey, someone was asking in the comments in the last post \u003Cb>if there is any way to subscribe to my blog. Does anyone know?\u003C/b> I syndicate post onto my Facebook account automatically (but I like the way it looks better in LiveJournal and I'm more likely to answer comments here on LJ). Can people pick it up other ways? I'm a little clueless about this.\u003C/del> \u003Ci>(Answered, thanks!)\u003C/i>","2009-12-16T19:22:00.000Z","getting-vern-lettuce-ready-for-translation",[],"getting vern & lettuce ready for translation",1776628733696]