I never truly intended to publish e9m (or TSOALR for that matter) so i drew the comic originals on my computer machine at 72 dpi, which is not suitable for printing. I experimented with Adobe Illustrator drawling for a while but had become so accustomed to the technique I use in Photoshop that I went back to it and started drawling each comic at 300 dpi, and then shrinking them to 72 dpi for web publishing. So very soon (on or about comic 400) I shall have 100 high-res comics for print publishing. And then there will be a book. Suitable for reading.
I use a program called Inkscape for my drawlings these days. It’s a vector graphics app which has a handy dandy function for tracing bitmaps. Once traced, the resulting vector can then be scaled as much as you like! Might be worth a look to see if you can quickly upscale some early E9Ms…
Incidentally, where are comics 190 and earlier? I was going to grab an early one to try it on and couldn’t access it! Also, it might be an idea to see if you have original versions without speech bubbles…
Woot! Finally a potential E9M book. I wanna pre-order now!
Dear Reader: comics 1-190 were going to be loaded “later.” When i changed the format from Larry’s gracious hosting on the toyzville site I could not get Comicpress to work right and went with stripShow instead. I had always intended to upgrade to Comicpress and do a much better site and didn’t want to have to upload every single comic multiple times, so when I got to 190 I quit. It is something that is on my list of things to do.