#740 Speaking ill of the Dead

Amelius on Aug. 15, 2008

You know what I dislike? The fact that the upper-case i and lowercase L look exactly alike in the font for the page titles. We need some serifs in there! It looked like I was putting Roman numeral 3 in the title instead of the word “ill” and I had to lowercase the i to make up for it. Argh, argh!

In other bummer news, Diamond decided we're small potatoes and pushed the book's printing date back and now instead of September, it's coming out in October. It's still coming out and can still be ordered though of course, so that's good.

Other news, we got more shirts in the cafepress store for you to ogle at if you like.

And sorry I'm updating this on what appears to be Saturday. What a week, I thought yesterday was Thursday until I heard someone say Friday! I got completely blindsided by time, thanks to my stupid sleep problems. Plus I have to be completely honest, I hated working on this page sooo much, I just hope you can't tell! Hopefully I'll have an easier time with the next one. I think I'm just eager to get to some things and these transition pages are making it a hell of a wait, but they are necessary or else no one would know what's going on, y'know. I could have skipped this I'm sure. I'm not saying the art in this one is bad, but that's because I spent hours going out of my way to cure the suck that was my inkwork, especially with Phineas's hat. I also realized at the last minute that it looks like he switched hands with the poking stick in the last panel, because I cut off some of the bottom. This is just a sample of things that went wrong!
No more whining from me though, it is done and now I get to update it. And I waited until this page was done for my cupcake, but since I got a Night School page done I have a cupcake “buffer” as well. Hurray!