Re: About the Nerd Boy book

"Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
>"Bertrand Mollinier Toublet" <ber...@enst-bretagne.fr>
> skrev i meddelandet news:2mg...@uni-berlin.de
>> Joaquim G�ndara wrote:
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> I see two options: either you don't think everything that you have
>> _already_ published online is ready for paper publishing (what bad
>> self-esteem!)
>
>Are you kidding? Like I've said before, I do have bad self-esteem.
>I had to force myself to not exclude NB113 and NB233. They were poorly
>received by readers and don't make much sense. However, since I
>ultimately decided to keep them in...
>
>> and you select only what you deem worth of publishing and
>> create a best-of-y book.
>
>...I'm not doing anything near a best-of. I'm trying to figure out
>what makes sense in a book. I want people to be able to read it through,
>even without any prior knowledge of NB (this is the first book after
>all), without getting confused by things that only make sense on-line
>or within a specific timeframe.
>
>> Or you consider that the numbered NB strips as published online are what
>> this is all about, get the congenial approval of the few copyright
>> owners whose work you happened to use here and there,
>
>And a written agreement that they won't sue me for royalties. That's
>just too much work for a handful of strips that aren't even that good
>to begin with.
>
>> keep the numbering for consistency,
>
>I would, but I actually plan to move some stuff around. At one point,
>when I was having trouble thinking of new strips in the story arc that
>ends in NB284, I interjected some HammerHead strips. I want to move
>those out of the way.
>
>> stop worrying about the link dumps
>> (did you understand all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips ? I didn't...)
>
>I think I did, but they were all self-contained.
>
>> That said I'd be interested to know if you have solved the issue of how
>> to present a Nerd Boy strip on a sheet of paper. The strips that I
>> enjoyed so much I printed them look kinda empty on paper.
>
>I don't have much to work with in B/W, so I opted for a kind of framing
>that looks kinda like I've enclosed the strip in brackets.
>  _      _
> | _|__.  |
> |  ___   |
> |_ _._, _|
>
>It encloses the space pretty well and makes it feel less "empty". If
>you want to see an actual mock-up, I can put a PDF on my website.

Lose the numbering it makes no sense in a book. You could have dates
though.
Maybe you could make ascii borders for the strips? Just a few different
ones based on the characters or theme.
What font will it be printed in? I view it in fixedsys.
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