Emil Ferris just said that 48 of 50 publishers she submitted My Favorite Thing is Monsters to rejected it outright. Can you imagine opening up that book, seeing the art, and being like, "Nah, pass"??
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Replying to @ben_towle
For a lot of the mainstream publishers, I think the production issues (not so much the cost as the difficulties)would be an issue. And most alternatives the cost. Not surprising it ended up at Fanta, one of 3 or 4 publishers that could do this.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Why would the production be more difficult than any other full color GN?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I don't know. Weirdly, her she was the only artist at the big Chicago Comics show whose work was reproductions rather than originals... made me wonder though if the pages are actually all in actual spiral notebooks. (Which, yes, would really complicate production.)
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Replying to @ben_towle @HeerJeet
I haven't seen the originals, but she has noted that the spiral notebook appearance was added digitally in production. And the final physical size of the book is just 8" x10.5" -- nothing particularly unusual.
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Replying to @skleefeld @HeerJeet
Yeah, she just went over that in her talk. The art's just on regular loose paper. And seems to be normal size--if not smaller than most comics originals.
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I think by "size" Heer might've meant "length" or "number of pages" rather than "page size". It's over 400 pages, right? Anything more than about 200 is gonna be a harder sell to a publisher, especially in color.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. Producing a book like that is no easy task and a risk. Props to Fanta for doing it.
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