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Always the Jester (DD4, Chapter One, Pages 38-40a)
🕑 Added 2021-09-24 16:06:00 +0000 UTC… in which the truest type of familial affection is demonstrated.
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Good news everybody!
Finally, FINALLY! I get to start work on Chapter Two. I am excited (there are so many fun/dumb things I want to do) and terrified (I'm certain it will be the most difficult chapter to bring together in a smooth, easy-reading, satisfying way).
Look forward to next week's update, when I probably will have discovered exactly what kind of trouble I've got myself into with this bonkers chapter.
Webtoon / Tapas
I've finished reformatting Chapter One for the Webtoon/Tapas vertical scroll. I'm excited to see how you all enjoy it.
Did I explain my rationale for reformatting for those services? It's not super-complicated.
First, it turns out I really like the vertical scroll. This surprised me. And I want every reader to have the best reading experience possible. For the last decade, I figured that meant reading the pages as they would be presented in a book, as two pages open before you. That's why I built the delilahdirk.com site to display pages like that. I still like that reading option, and I'm still going to use it for DD4, but I'm also making the vertical scroll available, because it's also a good way to read.
Second, look, I'll be honest, I think it will be a good way to grow the audience for this work and Delilah in general. More importantly, it will be a good way to grow the audience by also providing a good reading experience. When I look at the ways to present this work to readers, this seems like a good delivery method. Would I rather everyone sign up for a platform-agnostic RSS feed? Sure. But until the current generation of web users rediscovers the purity of RSS, it's time to try these webcomic intermediaries.
Patron Acknowledgement Pages
Thank you to everyone who gave feedback on the previous post about these acknowledgement pages. I did some typography explorations, but kept on coming back to the original typeface. Here's the first page:
I added rough grid lines, coloured some of the "ink" to tie it in with the paper better, and I manually nudged and messed-up some of the text entries. I'm a lot happier with how it looks now. It's still a bit of a legibility… challenge… but (and thank you to everyone who's on board with this aspect) that makes it feel more "authentic," which I like.
Next week: the final pages of Chapter One (happyface/sadface)! Also: what to look forward to from Chapter Two (happyface/nervoussweats)!
Comments
skyyefall
Also, as someone who discovered Webtoons and Tapas at the start of lockdown last year, I'm excited to see how "Delilah" translates over to the scrolling long form. Personally, I really enjoy that format and have found some artists who have done such cool things with it.
skyyefall
The acknowledgment page looks so good!
Tony Cliff
Ha ha! Thank you, Damien! I’m so glad to hear it. ❤️👋😘
Damien Prystay
The tiny "Sophia!" panel on the first of these pages is extremely cute; I love how expressive Nikos' body language is, even at that scale. Sad-moustache Andrew on the second page is also a delight!
As someone who has to read things like this for work, legibility is a challenge for most historic documents. Also we talked about Book one at our graphic novel discussion group last night!
The ledger is perfect! I love it!
