{"id":1266,"date":"2012-10-02T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamsvillecomic.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:08:48","slug":"adamsville-book-1-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/adamsville-book-1-is-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Adamsville Book 1 Is Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last evening I finished coloring and lettering the final page of book 1 in the Adamsville series! It was a really nice moment as I was up chatting with a few cartoonist friends and my wife was in the room with me and we all got to celebrate together. What a journey it has been. I am super grateful for all of the encouragement, and congratulations and cheerings on and dealing with me being a sentimental sap along the way to this point. Thank you everyone who has gone on this with me. It’s been a unique experiment to try and make a book completely away from the eyes of the open public when today’s default is make a comic and share it with people immediately.<\/p>\n

When I started this project I had a few things I wanted to see happen.<\/p>\n

1) I wanted to make this book my way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>This may seem like an odd statement, but when you are making a webcomic, as I have over the last five years or so, you get pressured by your readership to do a lot of things that are fun, in some ways helpful, but for me were distracting.\u00a0 I wanted to make a book in private and have it finished before I shared it with everyone.\u00a0\u00a0I wanted to have no pressure on what\u00a0my work flow was or what needed to happen and when.\u00a0 I felt this would maximize my productivity.\u00a0 That was goal number one.\u00a0 And that’s what I did.<\/p>\n

2) I wanted to finish it in a year<\/strong><\/p>\n

This more or less happened.\u00a0 I started rewriting this book in June of 2011 and started penciling and inking pages in July.\u00a0 I also had to take about two months off to stay focused on a few licenses I needed for the full time job.\u00a0 But all in all I finished in about 14 months.\u00a0 That I can not even believe.\u00a0\u00a0I will be honest.\u00a0 It was difficult, time consuming,\u00a0exhausting and awesome.\u00a0 Not everyone can do this. But I highly recommend you try to within the\u00a0confines of maintaining your life and responsibilities.\u00a0 Sarifices have to be made to do.\u00a0\u00a0For me it was sleep.\u00a0 I miss it and I plan to enjoy it for a short period before book 2 gets under way in about a month.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I owe a tremendous thank you to my color flatting help in Kev Brett<\/a>, Nick Perkins<\/a>, Van Roberts<\/a> and James Greene<\/a>.\u00a0 You guys saved this book from being something that would have just been way more labored.\u00a0 You kept\u00a0me able to\u00a0stay focused and let the train keep on rolling.\u00a0 I can’t thank you all enough.\u00a0 Truly.<\/p>\n

3) I wanted to give this book its best chance<\/p>\n

This may sound strange, but I wanted to give this book it’s best chance to succeed by finishing it first, making it absolutely the best book I think I could have made and then letting the world do with it what it pleases.\u00a0 My first goal though is make a book that’s hard\u00a0 for it not to find an audience.<\/a><\/p>\n

I had a set of goals when I started, and I have no idea what the future will be for it or me as a result of it, but what I can be excited about is I accomplished my goals and I take joy\u00a0in what I consider\u00a0a job well done.<\/p>\n

This book is what I wanted it to be.\u00a0 I think it’s fantastic and the kid in me (and adult) would have fought someone to get this book off the shelf. (OK I wouldn’t really fight someone…\u00a0 no fighting over my book kids)<\/p>\n

A lot is still set to happen.\u00a0 I have a round of edits I want to do on it to make sure it’s the best possible read I can give people.\u00a0 After that\u00a0begins the hunt for an agent and publisher.\u00a0 The plan at this point is to spend the next few months doing that.\u00a0 Hopefully it will find the right\u00a0publishing home.\u00a0 If it does not I will then start building the comic as a web comic and will look to self-publish.\u00a0 All of this will take time.\u00a0The publishing industry is a slow business.\u00a0 The\u00a0best thing to do is just pick up book 2 and get to work on it while all of this shakes out.\u00a0But if you want to follow along with that journey, please continue coming here as I will look to share my experiences with others about all of this. Hopefully it will be helpful for others as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last evening I finished coloring and lettering the final page of book 1 in the Adamsville series! It was a really nice moment as I was up chatting with a few cartoonist friends and my wife was in the room with me and we all got to celebrate together. What a journey it has been. 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