Best point! There are four methods outlined by Day9 in Starcraft based on the idea of “what is normal”. In visual culture we call these tropes…

1. Craftmanship – being really, really good at normal

2. Variation – sticking to the norm, but changing a few things slightly to give yourself an advantage

3. Playng the trope against itself – taking with is normal and expected and doing a 180 to surprise your audience

4. Theme – take the norm, or don’t, just as long as it suits your theme.

Oh man, printers. There are so many emails when dealing with printing a book. SO MANY, PEOPLE.

I just finished my cast on Development Hell over on ustream. I will post the video shortly.

I really enjoyed making these videos, and it was a crazy experience (as per usual) to do the live stream and just kind of go with it. Poor Wei exclaims like he’s dying every time he hears himself. “I’m never going on video agaaaaaaain!” He wails.

Honestly, we are technically awkward. Could it be more pro? Sure. Nonetheless, this is like my second video cast, and I’m pretty happy with it. It was a ton of fun, we had some great pre show and post show chats and I hope you will join me this upcoming Thursday January 27 at 7PM PST to discuss another comics related difficulty: dealing with development hell.

I think I enjoy talking about comics a little too much for it to be healthy… ^__^

Don’t forget, we’re still taking pledges and pre orders for 21 Journeys on Indie GoGo! Jeff made this crazy new video with editing and all that fun stuff that looks pretty good. Plus you get to see some of the art and learn about the artists in the book!