Thank you Adobe!

Final Production File – -Fireworks PNG
(This is a sample of the final production strip, complete with set (Golden Gate), character (Alan Musselman), and the dialogue and dialogue balloon. The file is layered and fonts have been turned into paths.)

Last night I gave a presentation at Adobe in San Francisco, detailing how I use Adobe’s graphic and workflow products to create Town Called Dobson.

I want to thank Luke Kilpatrick, David Hogue and Alan Musselman for letting me run amok at Adobe. We had a great time and a giggle or two. I also want to thank everyone who came out, especially those online. Those of you in the UK and Australia, thanks for joining in. Elaine, you can go to bed now.

Below are some links, notes and files to go along with the presentation.

The text of the presentation comes from a guide I put together talking about how to publish a political webcomic.

Guide to Publishing A Political Webcomic

I get asked alot about where I got the fonts I used. Well, it is BlamBot baby!
Blambot Fonts

When building a webcomic site, you need a CMS and a cool theme. I use WordPress to publish and Comic Press for a theme. It is custom built to handle webcomics. I do not use Comic Press, but not because it isn’t up to snuff, I have a lot of sub-branded strips (Spicy Fish Prophecy, etc) and I use categories for those sub brands. Last I looked, Comic Press uses Categories in a different way.

I used Keynote to build the intro presentation. You can grab the PDF below.
Keynote Presentation (3.0mb PDF)

I used poor Alan as a new character for the demo part of the presentation. The image below is a layered Fireworks PNG file for you to rip apart.

Alan Musselman Lab – Fireworks PNG

I use a template for the daily strip. This file is a layered template to demonstrate how I build the daily strip.

Daily Production Template – Fireworks PNG

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