Comments on: A Tip from Tony! http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538 Publisher Services for the Independent Comics Publisher! Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:52:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nathan http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538&cpage=1#comment-3065 Nathan Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:46:46 +0000 http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538#comment-3065 "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. " -Linus's Law Seriously, get as many of your best men as possible on edit duty. This really can make a huge difference in quality. I've picked up comics so riddled with blatent typos that I felt like I wasted my money. One heavily implied that the creator was dyslexic; I have no issue at all with learning disorders, but they aren't an excuse to let work go unedited. Besides, don't you want to give your readers the best you can for their money? You simply can't do that without polishing your work off with some finishing touches. By the way, Tony, I've noticed that your use of commas can get a bit... shall we say, creative. Keep an eye on that; your tips are far too solid to be tarnished with stray punctuation. I'm just trying to help. :) “With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. ” -Linus’s Law

Seriously, get as many of your best men as possible on edit duty. This really can make a huge difference in quality. I’ve picked up comics so riddled with blatent typos that I felt like I wasted my money. One heavily implied that the creator was dyslexic; I have no issue at all with learning disorders, but they aren’t an excuse to let work go unedited.

Besides, don’t you want to give your readers the best you can for their money? You simply can’t do that without polishing your work off with some finishing touches.

By the way, Tony, I’ve noticed that your use of commas can get a bit… shall we say, creative. Keep an eye on that; your tips are far too solid to be tarnished with stray punctuation. I’m just trying to help. :)

]]> By: Thomas http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538&cpage=1#comment-730 Thomas Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:54:38 +0000 http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538#comment-730 Tony is "RIGHT ON" with the reading backwards tip. I'm just about the worse speller in the world and this backwards reading thing has saved my butt many times. But on top of that, I get my wife, the best speller in the world, to proof it again. So I guess what I'm trying to say, if you can't spell in the first place, reading it backwards might not help after-all :) Joking!!! So... Proof it! Proof it! Proof it. Forward! Backwards! Upside down!!! Whatever! AND like Tony said, after the initial setup, "There is a page substitution fee for all these changes we have to make". Thomas @ Ka-Blam Tony is “RIGHT ON” with the reading backwards tip. I’m just about the worse speller in the world and this backwards reading thing has saved my butt many times. But on top of that, I get my wife, the best speller in the world, to proof it again. So I guess what I’m trying to say, if you can’t spell in the first place, reading it backwards might not help after-all :) Joking!!! So… Proof it! Proof it! Proof it. Forward! Backwards! Upside down!!! Whatever! AND like Tony said, after the initial setup, “There is a page substitution fee for all these changes we have to make”.

Thomas @ Ka-Blam

]]> By: Tony Furtado http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538&cpage=1#comment-708 Tony Furtado Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:18:04 +0000 http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538#comment-708 Thanks, Taylor. You'll be amazed at what you can catch proof reading your book this way. I'm horrible at editing my work. I need quite a few eyes to peep at my pages but, proof reading it backwards has cut their task down quite a bit. :) Tony Thanks, Taylor. You’ll be amazed at what you can catch proof reading your book this way. I’m horrible at editing my work. I need quite a few eyes to peep at my pages but, proof reading it backwards has cut their task down quite a bit. :)

Tony

]]> By: Taylor Lymbery http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538&cpage=1#comment-705 Taylor Lymbery Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:04:39 +0000 http://ka-blam.com/printing/front/?p=1538#comment-705 Great tip, Tony! You are right, the more eyes the better. I missed several basic misspellings in the last book, so I think I'll take your advice and read it backwards. Good idea. Great tip, Tony! You are right, the more eyes the better. I missed several basic misspellings in the last book, so I think I’ll take your advice and read it backwards. Good idea.

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