Putting The Letters In

Definitely a quiet month so far. But, the lettering work for The Next Stop is Lewknor Turn has begun, so if all goes well it should be out towards the end of February. I finally worked out the idea for the cover, which will of course involve a couple of new fonts. I’m also toying with the idea of making a variant cover with Stable Diffusion and some photos I took in December. The idea would be that when you click on the download link, there’ll be a chance you’ll get a CBZ with the variant instead of the normal cover. That essential 90s comics experience!

(trying to work out the actual page flow when you’re actually only producing a digital copy, but you still have to make it work as if it was printed due to how digital comics readers work is also proving to be a fun exercise!)

I guess the other big thing of the week was my last third-party Twitter client, Twitterrific (macOS) having its API key revoked by Space Karen. After almost a decade and a half of using non-Twitter clients to access the service…wow, it’s pretty user-hostile over on the actual website, isn’t it? I’ve gone from reading 1000s of tweets in a day to perhaps a hundred or so. Which is likely better for me. I just wish a few more groups would migrate over to Mastodon; it would be funny if what Musk ends up doing is bringing his mooted ‘open, accessible timeline’…but by other people who leave him to all those big debt repayments…