By D. Lynn Smith Earlier this month Kymera Press and yours truly were in San Jose at the Alternative Press Expo. This is a small convention, but it still has the fun that we've experienced at other conventions. Usually, I wouldn't attempt to write anything while being this busy, but my friend … [Read more...]
A Shout Out to Men Supportring Women in Comics
By D. Lynn Smith When I decided to found Kymera Press, I was somewhat hesitant because of all the press about online rape and death threats women in comics were receiving. I was afraid that might happen to me as well. However while some women continue be harassed, I have not been harassed at all. … [Read more...]
What Do I Look For in a Comic Book Artist?
By D. Lynn Smith I recently answered some interview questions, and one of them was something like what advice would I give to artists wanting to work for Kymera Press. I talked about getting your work up on sites like Deviant Art and not being shy about displaying your work. But I thought it might … [Read more...]
Translation of Comics
By D. Lynn Smith Earlier this year, my friend Lorraine Watson started a discussion on Facebook about dialog. Since it was very interesting, I thought I’d give a synopsis of that conversation here. Lorraine asked, “Do you know if word and/or bubble placement changes for comics written in languages … [Read more...]
What Fun Home and Bitch Planet Have in Common
By D. Lynn Smith A while back, Fun Home won the Tony for best musical. And guess what? It’s based on a graphic novel written by Alison Bechdel. Here is what Fun Home is all about... “In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late … [Read more...]
Playing with Fashion in “Gates of Midnight”
By D. Lynn Smith All of the art and lettering for Gates of Midnight #5 is complete! Paul, my wonderful husband and production editor, is busy putting it together into a book form and getting it ready to submit to comiXology Submit and the printer. Amelia Woo is working on the cover for Issue … [Read more...]
A Glimpse Inside the Comic Book Production Office – Part 2
By Paul Daughetee Last week I went over the hardware a production office needs to put a comic book together. Today we'll be covering the software and processes involved in getting your comic ready to print or to submit to an online publisher. SOFTWARE Here at Kymera Press, we use Adobe products … [Read more...]
Comic book editor Valerie D’Orazio opens a window into the industry
By Autumn Daughetee For weeks, we here at Kymera Press have been exploring the different professions necessary to create a comic book—from the writer to the inker. Last week we explored the role of the editor in the creation of a comic book. I’ll continue that exploration with my interview of the … [Read more...]
What does a Freelance Comic Book Editor Do?
By D. Lynn Smith As I mentioned in a previous post, I didn’t have an editor on issue #1 of Gates of Midnight, and I made mistakes that weren’t caught until my husband read the finished pages. We then had to go back and make corrections, which meant paying my artists for additional work. That … [Read more...]
Letterer Jessica Jimerson Loves Working with an All-female Creative Team
By Autumn Daughetee Over the past weeks Kymera Press has explored the roles of the many members of the comic book creative team, including the writer, the penciller, the inker, the colorist and the letterer. This final entry is an interview with the extremely talented Jessica Jimerson, the letterer … [Read more...]
The Letterer
By D. Lynn Smith We already talked about the writer…the person who puts lots of words on the page that the reader never sees. What the reader does see is the work of the letterer. The letterer is responsible for every word and balloon you see on the page, whether it be a caption, a thought … [Read more...]
The Colorist
By D. Lynn Smith When you open up a comic book, the first thing you see is the color. It might be full color, black and white, or sepia like Gates of Midnight. Regardless, your first impression of the work comes from the color and that what makes the colorist so important. I’ve always strived to … [Read more...]