I’ve been industriously inserting dialogue balloons and caption boxes into Spam and the Sasquatch for the last few days, using InDesign. It’s actually kind of fun, but taking much longer than I expected, which will delay the release of the book, much to my disappointment. But I’m learning a lot about how much time each aspect takes. In general, I’m feeling pretty sunny about it, with a few passing shadows. In recognition of that, here’s Spammy himself, with a couple of shadows (what is happening here?):
Tomorrow I’m off to VanCAF, the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival. I’ll report when I get back!
Karen Gillmore Art 
Spam looks very pleased with himself.
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As well he should be!
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Looks great!
Is InDesign easier than Illustrator? Or hand lettering on acetate or the original drawings?
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Well, they do different things. I’m a bit behind on learning to use Illustrator because it wasn’t covered in my school studies — we only did Photoshop and InDesign. And as I was already familiar with layout programs, InDesign was pretty easy for me to get at least entry-level proficiency. Illustrator, however, is useful if you want to do a lot of alterations to the fonts; I was just reading something this morning that made me resolve to catch up on my Illustrator skills!
You know, I didn’t even think of the acetate option; that would be interesting to try. Usually I plan the balloons as part of the drawing, but lettering makes my wrist kind of sore if I do a lot of it (though I kind of enjoy it), so for this longer work I decided to use the computer. I learned a lot while I was doing it, so that’s all good too!
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