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An artist working on this project must be able to deliver art in a certain format. It would be best if an artist can deliver digital files. This is not required - I can scan paper art, if need be - but digital files would be simpler to send and receive, and would save on time and postage. Depending on file size and connection speed, electronic transmission of the files would also be very efficient, though a CD-Rom through the mail would also work. Art should be produced at a size consistent with American comic books. A normal comic page is printed at 6.75 by 10.5 inches (which is trimmed down to a slightly smaller size). A 6 by 9 area within that is considered the "live" area. A digital canvas area for such a comics page would be 2025 pixels wide by 3150 pixels tall at 300 dpi. This should be the minimum canvas size for a page produced for this project. (Maximum would be 600 dpi - 4050 by 6300 pixels.) Those working on paper only should produce art at a roughly 1:1.5 width/height ratio. For those of you who like to work on large paper, 10x15 inches is a good measurement, but as long as the proportions are the same, any size is acceptable. Depending on the art techniques used, digital files should be in either pure 2-bit black and white mode, or 8-bit grayscale. Grayscale should only be used if genuine gray tones are used in the art; for dot and pattern-based tones, or for plain line art, 2-bit B&W files are preferred. Files should be delivered in a non-destructive form - that is, if compression is used, it should be of a type that does not degrade the image quality. TIFF files (using LZW compression) are an acceptable format. BMP files, PNG files and GIFs are acceptable. JPEGS are not a good file format to use. Photoshop and Corel Photo-Paint file formats can also be used. I use the CorelDraw suite, and the program ComicWorks. Having those programs would be convenient for artists working on this project, but is not critical. |