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Published: 2009-05-23 00:12:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 1408; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 49
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ECTOPLASM, a comics anthology printed by Twelfthgecko Press, will be handed out for FREE at MoCCA this year. :3 ECTOPLASM features:Nina J. Franzen
Rebecca G.
Kiki Jones (duh)
Bo Ae Lee
Amy Lorenz
Dominique Martin
Sweetherring
Ed Sinthes
Slowphia
Jeremy Stein
Steve Yurko
Basically I got all these people together and asked them to draw me something creepy, and it's all being compiled into one minicomic anthology to SPREAD THE LOVE MAN.
This is the cover and I am hoping to print it in two layers -- the background and the skeleton under the ghost-blob will be the actual color cover, and then the ghost blob will be printed on transparent acetate and become a translucent overlay on top of the background. SO, if I can just afford like 200 sheets of acetate (lol NOT HAPPENING, maybe 100 tho), it will have the sexiest cover ever.
Oh well, either way, this has been super-fun and stay tuned for more news about ECTOPLASM and MoCCA. 8D
xoxo
Kiki
P.S. It will obviously not say "www.twelfthgecko.com" under the title, that's just there for the sake of the internets.
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ok question WHAT do you use to get these kind of affects???? I fail at photoshop so is there something else.....?
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I drew all the lineart by hand but all the coloring is Photoshop. The translucency is achieved by turning the layer translucency down and the glowing font is regular font, with a white outline on another layer under it, with gaussian blur applied.
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This looks like a fantastic project you've got going here
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Awesome cover. I'm so happy to be a part of this with all these awesome people. Thanks for extending my deadline too.
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Oooh, it looks creepy and shiny and colorfull and AWESOME. I can't wait to get it!
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i am so jealous of the people at MoCCA who can get this D:
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GOOD YOU BETTER BE
I am glad I dragged you into doing a nosebleed picture at the last minute lololololol <3
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put my email as heartival (at) hotmail.com
with the @... i just dont want spambots finding it hahah.
THANKS<3
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Ha ha it's okay, it will be printed in the book SO DON'T WORRY, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE A REALLY GOOD SPAMBOT TO READ A PIECE OF PAPER.
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nono, i mean, when i wrote it to you on here hahahaha
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That is one sexay cover XD <3 You really outdid yourself kiki~
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Thanks dude! ;3; btw I put you as "KrazyD" since I wasn't sure if you wanted The Internet to know your real name or not 8D;;;
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XD thanks You can put my real name XD; I'm not a hugeee stickler on being "incognito" like most people.
Afterall Kiki, WE'RE GONNA GO DOWN IN HISTORY! *most likely cause of something notorious like hijacking a school bus* XD.
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*hijacking a school bus with the authors of Hetalia and Red String on it XD lolololol
Ha ha okay and for that matter, do you want me to put your dA in the book? Because you only sent me name and e-mail so I thought maybe you did want to be incognito... D8
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You can if you want XD;;; tis true i have a dA but ;___; its not like a personal website website XD.
*then again, if people wanna see more of my work, why not rite?* XD;;
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Ha ha, well lots of the other people put their DA's! In fact I think I'm the only person with an actual domain name 8D;;;
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HOLY CRAP, this is going to be the neatest book ever. Do you still need monetary help for printing costs? (I'm owed about $150 from work)
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Monetary help would be AWESOME, basically it's working like this:
I have this fancy-schmancy business class laser printer that does beautiful glossy printouts. The downside, reordering a set of laser cartridges for it costs 700 effing dollars. (Don't have a heart attack just yet, I don't need $700.) I have all fresh cartridges SO I will be getting as many copies as I can until those run out, I am optimistically hoping for 300 copies (that may be mad optimistic though, the book is looking to be about 44 pages) before the printer dies.
When the printer invariably runs out of "ink" (or magic laser beams, however it makes prints), I am going to take whatever money I have and make more copies at a Kinko's or something. SO, that is where money from you guys would be helpful. Luckily almost all the work is black and white, so that should make for cheaper copies.
Basically I have to put the book together and see how many my printer will spit out. I'll also make a .pdf or something if any of you guys want to print some copies for yourselves. SO, yes, donations would be awesome, I was asking for $10 - $20 but if you want to give more that would be excellent also.
Ha ha ha okay SORRY I WROTE A NOVEL, I just wanted to explain how and where and when your money would be used if you want to pitch in. 8D;;;
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Alright, sounds good. Do you have a paypal?
(And novels are fine, don't worry.)
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I have paypal but it's not set up to take money yet...is PayPal best for you? Because I can go figure it out if that's the best for you D8
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Actually, the easiest way would probably be money order, but I don't know how fast the mail system is. Paypal is the next best thing.
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Money order is okay by me. I think it would probably only take a few days since you're in NJ and I'm in CT. So if you'd rather do M.O., let me know and I will note you my address~
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Are you going to sell these online later on, so your other fans can order them? or is this just a one time deal... =[ I'll be uber-sad if it is...
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Unfortunately I think we will end up giving away all the copies during the convention, BUT I might be able to print more of them afterwards. I don't want to sell them for money because too many different people worked on it and I think it would be difficult to fairly split up any money made from them. So, selling them online would be tricky but I might be able to mail them out for free...maybe?
I can always make prints of my pages that are in it, though, there's actually only three pages of mine plus the cover in the whole book, the rest are by other people.
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Well, at least there's a maybe.
It's time like these when it sucks to be stuck in north carolina...
The other work looks good too!
keep makin' great art! <3
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Yess I'm sure if you really want one I could get it to you. <3
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!
wow
that would be awesome!
but only if there's extra, or if you do decide to print more.
o///w///o but that would be awesome!
that's the reason why i look up to you so much, you care about your fans, and the people that support you.
I'm gushing happy juice right now.
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Ha ha, awww, it's not such a big deal lololol *blushing*
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=]
it's one to me,
you don't understand how badly i wanted to go =[
I tried to get to a anime-con this Sunday too . (meanie parents x.x)
having the possibility of receiving something like that from one of my favorite artists, and many other great artists too is special to me. I don't know why i get happy about things like that, but i do.
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