Today I spent a lot of time wrestling with the Kindle Comics Creator, trying to pour Rita into a format that could be sold on the world’s largest bookstore. It was a lengthy process, full of terrible image overcompression, bloated output files, manual twiddling of command-line programs, and annoyance.
This was the best I managed. At that point I’d been fucking with it for about three hours; I threw up my hands and went to sprawl in the living room and read some of the stuff I got at Emerald City Comic-Con.
These are a couple of books by my animation school buddy Gabe, collecting stories from his strip/series Life In The Analog Age. It’s about growing up as a nerdy kid in the seventies.
When I was done with that, I’d destressed from all that swearing at the computer I’d done earlier. And I finally got off my butt and threw book 1 of Rita into Comixology Submit, as well as checked out how it looks on ComicsFix, a new online comics retailer I’ve been invited to be on.
I am pretty sure I will feel like I “didn’t get anything done” when I look back on today, but honestly? I got some stuff done. It’s just that it wasn’t drawing the next page of Rita. And I might get some of that done tonight while at SICAGA, too.
I dunno. Still a bit cranky and out of sorts. Well, going outside and having some beer and socialization will probably help a lot.