Comments on: SKULLS - Chapter 1 http://www.blackgate.com/2010/01/06/skulls-chapter-1/ Adventures in Fantasy Literature Mon, 21 May 2012 06:34:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: The Great Geek Manual » Free Fiction Round-Up: January 11, 2009 http://www.blackgate.com/2010/01/06/skulls-chapter-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1396 The Great Geek Manual » Free Fiction Round-Up: January 11, 2009 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:01:32 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=4608#comment-1396 [...] Gate is posting chapters of the sword and sorcery comic Skulls [...] [...] Gate is posting chapters of the sword and sorcery comic Skulls [...]

]]> By: Free Comic: The Skull – Grasping for the Wind http://www.blackgate.com/2010/01/06/skulls-chapter-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1393 Free Comic: The Skull – Grasping for the Wind Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:11:24 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=4608#comment-1393 [...] III. Black Gate has started, like Tor.com and others, its own series of free online comics. The Skulls holds more appeal to me than most others, because it is traditional sword and sorcery and its black [...] [...] III. Black Gate has started, like Tor.com and others, its own series of free online comics. The Skulls holds more appeal to me than most others, because it is traditional sword and sorcery and its black [...]

]]> By: John R. Fultz http://www.blackgate.com/2010/01/06/skulls-chapter-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1390 John R. Fultz Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:19:02 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=4608#comment-1390 Hey, John, Glad you're digging the first chapter. I just finished putting the final touches on Chapter 5. Here are the page counts so far: Ch 2 - 12 pages Ch 3 - 16 pages Ch4 - 14 pages Ch5 - 14 pages These original scenes were much shorter when laid out on traditional (portrait-style) pages. But when I "chop up" the pages and create landscape-style layouts (for computer screen viewing) the scenes tend to lengthen--less panels per horizontal page. Sometimes there will only be one or two images per "page." So turning all these portrait layouts to landscape layouts creates more screens that pages. The best is yet to come... Cheers, John Hey, John,

Glad you’re digging the first chapter.

I just finished putting the final touches on Chapter 5. Here are the page
counts so far:

Ch 2 - 12 pages
Ch 3 - 16 pages
Ch4 - 14 pages
Ch5 - 14 pages

These original scenes were much shorter when laid out on traditional (portrait-style) pages. But when I “chop up” the pages and create landscape-style layouts (for computer screen viewing) the scenes tend to lengthen–less panels per horizontal page. Sometimes there will only be one or two images per “page.” So turning all these portrait layouts to
landscape layouts creates more screens that pages.

The best is yet to come…

Cheers,
John

]]> By: John ONeill http://www.blackgate.com/2010/01/06/skulls-chapter-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1389 John ONeill Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:25:08 +0000 http://www.blackgate.com/?p=4608#comment-1389 Hi John, Great start. My favorite scene was when Nomicrus' ghoul started chewing on the bone in the background. Nice touch of morbid humor. :) Looking forward to Chapter 2 on Wednesday. This installment was a solid 14 pages, which I have to assume won't be the norm... any idea how long each installment will be? John Hi John,

Great start. My favorite scene was when Nomicrus’ ghoul started chewing on the bone in the background. Nice touch of morbid humor. :)

Looking forward to Chapter 2 on Wednesday. This installment was a solid 14 pages, which I have to assume won’t be the norm… any idea how long each installment will be?

John

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