The People’s Publisher

Welcome to the blog for the Mix part 6. Hey that rhymes.

 I’m writing this from La Ventana Mexico, and I probably should be out on the water right now, the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, but when ya gotta blog, ya gotta blog. Hey it could be worse I know. I went to the circus last night in La Paz, and ended up “volunteering” to be the assistant for the knife throwing act. When I say volunteer I mean I was dragged into the ring by clowns. I’m not kidding. Clowns are intimidating. Luckily he was a very talented knife thrower, and I escaped without injury.

This week I asked the writer for The Mix, what his thoughts and observations were about this process of making these comics, so I should be able to share someof those insights with all of you next week. It is sure to be enlightening, and I think he must be excited to see the story coming to life as a comic, and I imagine that he is feeling pretty good about how things have been developing so far. I know I am.

We have had some really great pencils coming in , too many to show you at this time, but we are close to the halfway mark now on those. We have a couple of pages of the inks completed, and those look pretty great too. It seems like Miguel is really finding his stride now, and I really like the look of his new pages alot, really tight line work, and his character’s expressions are bang on. There has been very few revisions necessary, and I am feeling really lucky to be working with someone who seems to nail it on the first try almost every time.

The only frustrating part of the process so far has been trying to keep everything on schedule, and meet deadlines. Whenever one is collaborating on a project, staying on top of the work, and making sure it is consistently finished on time is crucial, because the team is only as fat as the slowest individual. Let’s face it, life has a way of intruding on the best laid plans, and the best intentions can be waylaid so easily. So far, things have not happened quite perfectly for this team, some of the deadlines had to be pushed back for various reasons, but, knock wood. that seems to be past now.