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Offline Roygbiv666

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Public Domain Handbook?
« on: April 18, 2021, 10:16:28 AM »
Standard Comics Backers Handbook

A DC Who's Who/Marvel Handbook style comic featuring your original characters!

Have you ever wanted to have your character featured in a comic book? Imagine your character drawn by a professional artist and featured on the cover and interior of a comic book. Got a redesigned public domain character and history, but no place to share them? Get them in the book!

Backing the project nets you a colorful digital drawing of your character (hero or villain, it's up to you), an entry page, and copies of the Handbook!! Plus a wonderful digital wallpaper of the Fish Lee wraparound cover featuring all the characters in the book!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598069532/standard-comics-backers-handbook

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Public Domain Handbook?
« on: April 18, 2021, 10:16:28 AM »

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Re: Public Domain Handbook?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2021, 10:45:50 AM »
Hi Roy,
I'll give this project a plug on the DCM FB page for you.
It sounds like a great idea for a book!

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Re: Public Domain Handbook?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2021, 05:14:17 PM »
I've had two stories published in an indie comic, one story featured mostly public domain characters and one original character, and the other story featured original characters.  I know Fish Lee's work from the same comic I was published in.  The problem was the first story was published in black and white instead of color and the second story had two pages with spelling mistakes.  I sent the corrected pages to the editor but he did not use them.  The editor did not inform me nor the artists I worked with that he was not going to publish them as we wanted.  Anyway, I have these characters that I can include in your comic guidebook.  I can write up histories for both lead characters as well as a villain from my second story.  That's three characters.  Is that too many?  How do I go about submitting them?  That will cost me a lot, I guess.  Maybe I should only submit one character.  I own all the rights to my characters Princess Marshmallow, Morio the dove and Professor Lagomorph and artist Greta Fantini even sent back the original art she drew.  Since I may be able to use one of her drawings for your book, how much would that cost?  I'm not real sure about this.  Maybe I'm getting in over my head. 
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Re: Public Domain Handbook?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2021, 11:54:53 PM »
Roy, I forgot about this until a few hours ago!  I just wrote up a brief history of my character Princess Marshmallow.  I also made a copy of one of the story pages and cropped it.  The only problem is that she is standing in front of a background that may have to be removed.  I don't know how to remove the background and just keep the character.  Anyway, do you have any slots left in your guidebook?  I can contribute some money to your project, although I see that it has reached its goal.  But I won't need an artist to draw something.  I will need some help in removing the background on the drawing I want to use for your comic.  Let me know how to go about submitting a character and if you have slots left.  I could write up another profile for Taanda, White Princess of the Jungle, a public domain character I used in a story that was published in an indie comic.  If two slots aren't available but one is, I'd rather just go with Princess Marshmallow.  If no slots are available then maybe I can contribute to the next issue.  Thanks if you can respond.       
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Re: Public Domain Handbook?
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2021, 01:23:51 PM »
Roy, I forgot about this until a few hours ago!  I just wrote up a brief history of my character Princess Marshmallow.  I also made a copy of one of the story pages and cropped it.  The only problem is that she is standing in front of a background that may have to be removed.  I don't know how to remove the background and just keep the character.  Anyway, do you have any slots left in your guidebook?  I can contribute some money to your project, although I see that it has reached its goal.  But I won't need an artist to draw something.  I will need some help in removing the background on the drawing I want to use for your comic.  Let me know how to go about submitting a character and if you have slots left.  I could write up another profile for Taanda, White Princess of the Jungle, a public domain character I used in a story that was published in an indie comic.  If two slots aren't available but one is, I'd rather just go with Princess Marshmallow.  If no slots are available then maybe I can contribute to the next issue.  Thanks if you can respond.     

You can crop images in paint 3D using the Magic select feature.....

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Re: Public Domain Handbook?
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2021, 01:11:19 AM »
I know how to do a simple crop.  It was removing the background that I can't do.  I don't have a fancy photo editing program or the know how to use one.  Anyway, I didn't get my character in his book because Roy didn't want drawings made by other artists.   
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