Big Damn Project

I stayed up late last night playing with this: It’s my own zine devoted to 7 Days. I actually really enjoyed the process, figuring out the layout, picking out which of my crappy doodles I was going to use for image fillers. The Flash interface takes a little bit of getting used to — it’s no Pages, that’s for sure. My only gripe is that there’s on way to do a page two. That is to say, your issue will be as long as you make it. I understand that’s how the Internet works, that there are no physical pages. But these are zines, and zines were traditionally restricted to 8.5 x 11s (or some such). I think it would have been neat, is all.

7 Days OpenZine Cover

I have thought about turning this into an annual thing, maybe not once a week, but putting all of 7 Days into OpenZine format. One problem with this is I’m running out of 7 Days related doodles. What I have in the zine came from when I fancied I would make an online comic instead of do the web fiction thing. They were tests, me getting to know the tablet and Pixelmator, and how each of them worked. Some of the pictures were scanned, and color put behind them, the picture itself transparent enough for the color to bleed through (see both the BDP banner and the 7 Days banner). Others are just tests of body and perspective in Pixelmator. It was more a question of “can I handle a web comic?”

The answer turned out to be, “no.” But I got some neat doodles out of it, so there’s that. If I do come back to this, it’ll be with new doodles for each chapter. We’ll see.

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