Posted on Leave a comment

LondOntLife Books #4 and #5 are ready to go

Quick turnaround from M&T. I guess that’s why they’re called Instaprint after all. Nice clean job, great quality. My only concern for the next book is most efficient use of the paper page as the size of these leaves half the 11×17 sheet as waste. We will have to consider the sizing next time: either smaller and more pages with all full page cartoons or larger – perhaps more of a comic book size.

In the cartoons, sizing the text on screen when the image can be zoomed solves one problem, but sometimes it reproduces in print at a fixed size as too small. Then again I am also always wearing my readers, and freely zooming the art to draw it.

In the end the major cost is the paper. Might come to the same end depending on display and distribution.

Washed my hands and signed and numbered each of the 20 limited run editions of the books. Need to update the ISBN info and get the print versions up on the LondOntLife bookstore website.

See you at London Comic Con.

Posted on Leave a comment

Book proof in hand

Unusual delays, staff changes, Covid… but we managed to check out the proofs for books 4 and 5. August is short, and September is coming up fast. Anyway, a few small changes in book 5 will be heading back to the printer after the weekend.

Posted on Leave a comment

Building the store. Aaargh.

OMG. Square is a PITA. One seriously needs a guide-priest to figure out the system. Whatever I need to toggle to set something is set three clicks away under a label I have to guess at. Okay, I’ll will continue to use the Inventory and payment system. Such a clean page design they all look the same and I just don’t know where I am. Took forever to deal with the two names – or whatever – somehow, accounts I had which insisted on displaying a different set of Items. I’m not so sure WooCommerce is any less complicated yet at the upper Admin levels. but in a few days a fresh storefront was built, rather than hacking about in the wilderness after a few months. Anyway, that’s my review. And don’t get me started on another rant. I mean the Block building system is a puzzle. I’m an old fart. I used a Mac Plus.

Posted on Leave a comment

We have new books for a frightening brightening 2022

There may yet be a few copies of It’s A LondOntLife #1 at Brown & Dickson. We are really negligent. We’ll have to check. But the last one we physically held went to a person at Free Comic Book Day May 7 2022 in downtown London.

We prepped and printed two books for Tingfest set for Spring of 2020 and soon, we will have two more books with cartoons from 2020 and 2021.

Some upcoming in-person locations: could be a rumoured TingFest 2022 and London Comic Con. The LondOntLife bookstore is here:

Posted on Leave a comment

Samupress has new LondOntLife Books soon!

It’s A LondOntLife #4 has been ready to go since last year. Without the local London Comic Con, without Words, without Tingfest, there really hasn’t been an outlet. We have had nothing but time to get on with the next book collection, It’s a LondOntLife #5 and we seem to be going with M&T as a local printer, but not ready soon enough for Free Comic Book Day. Books 2 and 3 – were print and packaged ready for that last Tingfest which was held off under that first wave of Covid – and will be seeing their first exposure on May 7 at Heroes. These next two books will be ready for events in the Summer and Fall.

Posted on Leave a comment

Those old things below

When we discarded Cartoonlife, of course we did a backup. That backup somehow remains linked to here, the renamed Samupress. Some of it is interesting enough to keep and sort to other pages or blogs, or linked to their books. Soon.