Plana, publishing illustration and comics with floss
Formal Metadata
| Title |
Plana, publishing illustration and comics with floss
|
| Alternative Title |
Plana publishing illustration and comics with floss
|
| Title of Series | |
| Part Number |
34
|
| Number of Parts |
46
|
| Author |
|
| License |
CC Attribution - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported:
You are free to use, adapt and copy, distribute and transmit the work or content in adapted or unchanged form for any legal and non-commercial purpose as long as the work is attributed to the author in the manner specified by the author or licensor and the work or content is shared also in adapted form only under the conditions of this license. |
| Identifiers |
|
| Publisher |
|
| Release Date |
2012
|
| Language |
English
|
Content Metadata
| Subject Area | |
| Abstract |
Plana started as an academic project by Luís Camanho for a small independent publisher on illustration and comics. Free software was embraced almost from the very beginning. It was an answer to economic constraints but also reflection of our empathy with the libre graphics world. As a consequence, we got interested in copyright and embraced the sharing culture, informing and encouraging our authors to distribute their work for free. With five books published since 2008 we would like to share our experiences so far.
|
| Keywords | Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) |
00:07
Spacetime
00:14
Projective plane
Social class
00:50
Product (business)
01:03
Information
Videoconferencing
01:09
Projective plane
01:15
Medical imaging
Software
Personal digital assistant
01:51
Multiplication sign
02:13
Touch typing
02:33
Software
02:39
Moment (mathematics)
02:46
Software
Website
03:03
Keyboard shortcut
03:23
Area
Software
Block (periodic table)
Software testing
Mereology
03:54
Covering space
Spiral
04:12
Computer file
File format
Website
04:57
Authorization
05:14
Planning
05:42
Web page
Computer file
Software
Shared memory
Authorization
Freeware
06:12
Library catalog
06:43
Multiplication sign
Parameter (computer programming)
06:57
Presentation of a group
Perspective (visual)
Element (mathematics)
00:01
hello and I am here today to present climate
00:05
funding is a small publishers dedicated to
00:07
publishing illustration and comics and space
00:11
in Porto in Portugal it started as a
00:15
personal project of school project by Louise
00:18
and the I met him during classes and decided to
00:23
join him and we never set out to
00:27
define goals for what we wanted to do
00:30
because it was very clear and we wanted to
00:32
publish publish a lot as much as we could
00:37
and now published beautiful books having
00:40
them in English as well as in Portuguese so we could
00:43
send them abroad and now within had at budget
00:47
so we would have fewer a copies of each
00:51
book and we wanted to have the most possible price
00:55
up price that people would pay for the production of the book
00:57
and also for the offers were and I'm from graphic
01:03
design of the research that has of video
01:07
information and we knew that if we wanted
01:12
to set up a project like this we would have to
01:16
have software for editing image handling
01:20
out the book and also we have to have direct
01:23
cases so you would need to spend some money
01:28
money that we didn't have that if we wanted to go
01:31
forth with our ideas and now even though
01:36
we wanted the low price and I
01:39
wanted to publish a lot we we decided to
01:44
go for proprietary software and on the
01:47
1st 2 books were edited with Photoshop
01:50
which I now think as a very lazy
01:54
thing to do but by the time was what we felt
01:57
comfortable with was what we had learned in school what
02:00
our colleagues were using what all the other
02:03
professionals were having for their work and
02:07
also what the printers were demanding some
02:11
that how it went and for the 1st time in
02:16
2008 I went to the LGM and
02:19
started to get in touch with the leader graphics
02:21
community and already on the 1st book we had
02:25
our logo and for that I used to being scared and
02:30
that was our 1st contact with the graphics
02:33
and software so the 3rd book was really the
02:39
moment when we decided to step back and
02:43
I accept that we didn't have a budget yet
02:46
to the software are anything else
02:50
and now we still wanted to keep on publishing so I will show you the websites of the 3rd book is a book that I did with the kind and about
03:05
it has a collection of short stories that talk about our experience while living in Rotterdam OK
03:20
added a bookmark because of the keyboard and it was not working anyway and now for this book we use
03:28
it as a testing area and we didn't
03:32
always free software we needed a block where we would talk about the book how we did it at all the little parts how we did the illustrations how we render the text and we wanted really
03:47
to share their experiences and also give
03:52
people the possibility of doing exactly the same so we did all text by hand and
03:58
then we used things give great feature of trade tracing but not to to get it in pictorial form
04:07
this is the cover for this we use the spiral curves which are great and now for the book we
04:15
decided to publish it with a Creative Commons license so we in the website have available all files and editable formats and you
04:26
can get it you can do it at home and you can also like and so I'll show you a few more pictures or it so this is our 1st book
04:55
2nd book and of this collection of stories
05:01
which already had been published by the author and we had just done more work having it laid
05:09
out as a proper comic book and translated into English so that he could be sent abroad
05:16
and here you have a plan of our book cover when it came out from the printers and its 1st perfect we used scribers and Inkscape and everything worked out really good and now that we think about it we really didn't need to go for proprietary proprietary tools because we do need anything in particular we we needed really simple tools just for editing the images and
05:43
doing the layout for the pages we don't even have much text this is our 4th book and have for the 1st book not only we use free
05:53
software as we talk to the authors and now we convince them to release all the book and with the Free Art License and the free Aceh license shares the same principles as the GPL but applied to artistic work so you can also go and get the original files the original drawings which
06:15
is we scanned and treated for the book and you can use them for year 1 on work and you only have to release it under the same license of course and
06:25
because of this we started to I get in contact with the artists comic book artists and illustrators working in Florida and we were invited by this local gallery to do their catalog for an illustration exhibition called dandy the featuring the work of
06:44
several artists we received the works very late so we didn't have any time at all to play something for the licenses but once again we use of argument Inkscape and everything was
06:58
fine were dining out our 6 book I was
07:02
really impressed by yesterday's presentation of laid out and definitely want to try it because we don't do very much with text it's mainly elements so yeah go and visit our website get our books and if you have any doubts or suggestions you can write as and have the books with me if you want to see them you can have a look so perspective
