Temple Portfolio PDF

[dave hailwood]

Hi there,

I thought it was probably about time we tried to put together a portfolio of all our best work, as a PDF to be displayed on websites and put on CD to hand out at conventions.

Contributions should be 1-5 pages in size, with your own cover that contains contact details and a brief biography. You can put in sequentials, inking, pencilling, lettering samples, cartoons, pin-ups, scripts...basically whatever best represents your chosen field in the comics medium.

Each page would need to be 150 Dots Per Inch (if you're unsure what your pages DPI are, you can check them out in the properties) and 1200 pixels wide (so as to keep the PDF file down to a managable size, but still at a good enough resolution to not look pixellated on peoples monitors).

The deadline for submissions is May 1st, as that'll allow me to put the PDF onto a CD, hopefully in time for the Bristol Convention.

I'll also need a front cover for the portfolio, and a cover for the CD if there's any volunteers?

Feel free to attach the artwork you want to submit here (if you put it in the gallery, make sure it's clearly marked 'Temple Submission'), or send it to me at [e-mail]

Everyone's welcome to contribute, though please remember to make sure it's the best work you're able to produce. Once we have the issue completed I'll attach the PDF to this site and others, and also put out a few announcements.

If anyone has any feedback regarding content/putting the PDF together then feel free to speak your mind. If there's any other creators you think would be interested in contributing then please point them in the right direction.

Look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with...

- Dave Hailwood

[John Kirkham]

http://www.smallzone.co.uk

http://www.clownpress.com

http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk

http://www.indiereview.co.uk

[dave hailwood]

John - good plan with collecting small press links. It might be worth starting a separate topic just for them, so they don't get lost.

Regarding your email, doing flyers to promote the PDF instead of a more costly CD is probably a better plan, As you rightly pointed out there's no point going through the time/expense of CD burning when people can download the Temple PDF easily enough anyway. I doubt I'll get the chance to knock up any flyers myself though, as I'll be too busy putting the PDF together and plundering peoples websites. If there's any volunteers, post your efforts on the site and whoever's going to the convention (I might be. Not sure yet) can print some out to take along.

We're also still in need of a volunteer to do the cover for the very first digital Temple issue!

So far I've received contributions/offers to plunder their websites from:

Dave Evans, Tony Suleri, Jim Stewart and Stu Smith. Paul Harrison-Davies also hopes to contribute if he gets the chance (he's just finishing off a contribution to Best New Manga 3).

Tony, I'll probably put in the first four pages of the latest full colour Marren Kane adventure as your contribution, if that's okay with you?

Anyway, look forward to hearing from a few more folk and receiving work as and when you're able (remember - it doesn't have to be a full five pages. One page is fine too. Also, it can be work that's been published on your website if you have one).

[John Kirkham]

I'll put together the flyer, if you write the text, Dave.

Anyone else going to Bristol who's also willing to photocopy some flyers?

[Dave Evans]

I'll gladly copy some, and I'll pt some in the new comics as well.

[dave hailwood]

I'll try and knock up some publicity text if I get the chance - I went away to my parents for the weekend and returned to 26 emails, concerning various different projects. Once a few of them are out the way, I'll see what I can do - though as you said in one of your emails just putting this first issue together is the main target. If we get to do flyers in time for Bristol that's always useful, but not essential.

As you also mentioned, the joy of PDF's is that if we get it wrong the first time, we simply update that PDF and reupload it.

Thanks for the full sub you sent me John. Any chance of you and Dave Evans posting the covers to your front sections here as examples, as they both look very good and might help give other contributors ideas of how to tackle their front pages.

I'll check out the Temple blog on wed/thursday John, as I only got back late last night and haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Great idea.

[dave hailwood]

Forgot to say thanks Dave for the offer of printing a Temple ad in some of your comics. That'll be much appreciated. Once I've written some sort of advertising blurb I'll post it here so we can all add to it and refine it.

Hopefully I'll get it done at the weekend.

[Dave Evans]

As requested, here is the frontsheet I cobbled together for my bit.

Dave

[dave hailwood]

Cheers for that Dave, much appreciated.

So, for those people who're interested in contributing to the Temple Digital Showcase but aren't sure what a front cover for their section should look like, click Dave Evan's attachment.

[John Kirkham]

Actually Dave (H) you’re lucky you got anything from me. Went to the computer first thing Monday, turned the computer on and... nothing. Dead as Timmy Mallet’s career, after twenty minutes of every other word being an obscenity I phoned the local computer repair place. So after three days of worrying about losing two years of work I got the call his morning that my PC had risen from the dead, turns out it was the power supply.

Anyway here’s my Temple intro page...

[dave hailwood]

Cheers for that John, and I'm glad to hear you got your computer problems sorted. I once backed up all my files olny to discover, shortly after my computer's harddrive exploded, that all the blank DVDs I'd used were still blank (the moral is - don't buy the cheap crap!)

Thanks for volunteering (via email) to do the Digital Temple cover - I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Depending on how big the final issue is looking, I may act on your other email suggestion of doing a Hi-res and Low-res version of the PDF (which could be useful for those without Broadband access).

[John Kirkham]

oh, forgot to mention...

http://www.pdf-mags.com

Which is the place I got the hi-res/low-res idea from

[John Kirkham]

I've just put my whole contribution online so people have got a better idea on what to include:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sr-republic/temple-sample.pdf