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On Ninjak, the book.

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       Hello everyone.    It's been a while since the last post, which was meant to close the blog, but. Recently the trade paperback containing the three issues I worked on came out, it's the final form of the work and there are a few new changes I want to comment on, along with the overall editing. Also about some things that were pending.  So, let's start with the...                                                                                                   Figure 1    Cover.   Unlike the comic-books, the tpb has a drawing done by me on the cover (fig. 1). It's one of two illustrations I did for publicity use at the beginning of the project, before any interior art was done, and as such was not intended to be a cover. Still, it does a pretty good job at it, and I take the change of approach as the acknowledgment of a mistake.      Interior.   The book delivers worst and glossier paper stock, but color is actually better reproduced than in the comic-boo
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On Ninjak 4, a farewell.

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  Hi everyone, Javier here.  Turns out I'm not in the book anymore, this is the last On Ninjak post. The blog has tried making visible some of the work that I've been doing on the series, let's end it in the same way.  My work on issue # 4 was already made, and it is included here, to finalize the post. The official issue #4 was released one week ago, so this one is a fan-fiction now, or a What If, even so, its existence should still be of interest to anyone interested in how comics work and are made. Two comics that come from the same script are a privileged window into storytelling on their own.    The only thing that I'd ask for is to do the first reading of every one of them separately, dedicating the necessary time to properly enjoy the reading experience that each comic provides. That experience is, in the end, what it's all about, and should be at the center of any possible analysis.    This has been a blog about comic storytelling, the posts c
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On Ninjak 3.

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                                                                        Fig 1. Hi everyone, Javier here.  The drawing above (fig 1) is the only cover I've ever done for a Ninjak comic, it was done in 2017.  This is an advance of next month's post, in which I'll talk about covers, among other things.   This time I'm starting with another comic-related matter. It is the first thing that the reader finds when the book is opened, and so many times it gets unnoticed, and rightly so. I'm talking a bit about the CREDITS .  L et's take a look at actual credit. Easy, number 1: Parker & Pulido, no specific credit (although in issue # 1 a 'words and art' sign was added), number 2, Pulido & Parker, number 3 Parker & Pulido again, # 4 Pulido & Parker , etc. The word is 'vague', the issue seems not to have so much to do with defining what each one does as with what each one does not do. Instead of what we are, what we are not.  I
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