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ABOUT
'insideout' is a playful 27 page comic-booklet about the contradictions of affection (with ghosts).
This work was
created during my residency with Proboscis UK in August 2008.
This comic was designed to be easily printed and collated into a booklet without any staples.
DOWNLOAD HI-RES COPY - Print, fold, read and share, all in high definition!
CONSTRUCTION INSTRUCTIONS - A step-by-step guide with pictures and video.
READ ONLINE - For you lazy duddies.
Diffusion eBook
The comic book was created using the 'Diffusion eBook' format developed by Proboscis UK - playful hybrid digital/material publications combining the tactile pleasures of tangible objects with the ease of sharing via digital media. These eBooks address limitations of traditional publishing and the constraints of economics and costs by providing a staple-free format for publications that can be downloaded, printed and shared across borders. Proboscis offer a free online library of extensive works published within the eBook format as well as an online platform permitting public authorship of eBooks.
Adventurous Ghosts
When it came to developing the 'eBook' format, I was inspired to reflect its encouragement of sharing creative processes and ideas in the comic book's subject matter and style.
The comic's aesthetic is almost completely created with soft pencils. In commercial comics processes, the penciling stage is one of the initial processes in creating a work's visual aesthetic. Here, I've chosen pencils, sometimes with my construction lines even peeping through, as the final aesthetic to capture and showcase this project's ambition to share process.
It was with the transparency of process at the forefront of my mind that I was inspired to have the protagonists of 'insideout' appear as ghosts, and it was with the aim of being open to embrace and share ideas and processes that I modeled the narrative to concern these ghosts' conflicting attitudes towards demonstrating and receiving affection and their fear to venture outside the door of their haunted home.
Completely Free
In the spirit of this format's advocation of creating and sharing ideas, I've decided to -
+ release this little ditty completely free;
+ release this work's hi-res images for use under the creative commons attribution-noncommercial-share alike license; and
+ open up some insight into my materials and process.
I hope this makes audiences realise how easy it can be to put together a little comic book and excite readers to try it themselves.
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