Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

Words and drawings, mostly at the same time, mostly true. Author/Illustrator of MOONBOUND, TRINITY and BATTLE LINES

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis I didn’t! That’s awesome! It’s amazing how far this field has come (thanks in part to your work)

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis And if it’s not, email me and we can get into specifics of a jury rigged cardboard jig for sheet feeding.

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis Can you shrink it down at all? Wide margins are your friend here. You can drop in registration marks (simple crosshairs) in photoshop or illustrator. Do some tests with one leaf (front and back) and see how off the laser printer is…might just be good enough as is.

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis Laser printers are less consistent. It helps to use a manual feeder. And given that each print will be cheaper, you could maybe afford to print overs and just save the best for binding

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis Are you printing inkjet or laser? And what’s the edition size? Either way you should throw some registration marks on. There are some tricks you can do with making your own jig that will help keep an inkjet feeding in register.

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@CBMDP For some reason the thing that miffs me the most about those gastime tvs is that they stop the video as soon as you stop pumping gas. Like, what if I wanted to hear the end of Maria’s take on Shang Chi??

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@CBMDP Welcome to the real America

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@MNealDoherty oooh, Billionaire Wilderness got me so fired up. Enjoy your summer!

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@muellerspace That makes me so happy to hear! Thank you!

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis @Philjimeneznyc Straight lines and any geometric shapes are waaaay easier to work with in ProCreate.

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis And that's on an iPad mini 5. I now hate going back to my Cintiq. Being able to work on the couch with my family changed everything. It's ideal for layouts in particular, and inking. Lettering is still better in InDesign

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis I still use Photoshop for finishing the pages, but I gotta say, ProCreate has made drawing comics so much easier. I work at 600dpi on roughly 7"x11" pages and that gives me 15 layers

[The Dread duck Pirate Mark Brooks 𓅊 @MarkBrooksArt]

Damn, I feel seen. Only some of you will get this. The beginners are gonna be pissed and confused.

[Elisa Gabbert @egabbert]

It’s fine if my next book doesn’t come out until 2024, right? We’ll all still be alive and there will be paper and everything…right?

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@Nsousanis The first word that came to mind was "ambit"...maybe to broad for your needs, but it has a satisfying lope to it, and I like that "bit" is in there as a discrete unit of information

[Elisa Gabbert @egabbert]

Feeling like a failure is the first position of writing. You do your little moves and then return to first position.

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@wellerstein I think the last time you posted shots of these I immediately went to eBay and tracked a set down. It's like if Tarkovsky had directed Bert the Turtle

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@noahgshannon If those notecards don't work out at least you'll still have a nice rug

[Nathan Dugan @NathanDugan]

This is a bad deal. Montana needs a progressive property tax (where more expensive homes pay much higher taxes by %) and a real estate transfer tax on luxury mansions, not a system that rolls back mansion values to 2019 levels while capping their tax. https://t.co/N50GmGSVeP

[Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @fetter_vorm]

@noahgshannon Reminds me of Melville: on that same tip but more sympathetic to the plight of nerds everywhere