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In case you couldn’t make it to Litquake on Saturday, here is the live recording of Lucas Laredo and Anna Rosales’ talk about their experience of being part of the Stanford Graphic Novel team. As you’ll see, they did us proud. Nice work Lucas and Anna!
Adding the spot tone using a Cintiq screen/tablet
Congratulations to the determined, dedicated, bleary-eyed, sleep-deprived, incredibly talented elite from the Stanford Graphic Novel Project 2010 who got our 192p graphic novel finally off to the printer yesterday. After a weekend full of post-production work on Illustrator and Photoshop, Monday night saw the handful of diehards switch seamlessly to Indesign to layout the final print-ready pdf, incorporating text tweak and colour edits along the way. This is only the third year of the Stanford GN project, but the progress the class has made is clearly visible from the jump in the production values, artwork and storytelling. Great job guys!
Now that Pika Don (“flash boom” in Japanese – the word used to described the atomic bomb blasts)’s finally finished, the next deadline is for the human trafficking comic I’m putting together with Fulbright Fellow, Olga Trusova. Olga’s been out in the Ukraine visiting NGOs and collecting victims’ testimonies for me to then turn into graphic narratives to give those that have been exploited a real voice. Too often even the most well-intentioned literature on human trafficking features the same visual motifs of girls in short skirts with pixelated faces walking down dimly-lit alleyways – despite the fact that sex trafficking is only one part of what is an enormous global industry. (Sweatshops, forced labour, piracy and fruit/vegetable picking are just some of the other categories). I’ll post some extracts on Friday to give you an idea.
