This artist has a cheap scanner/printer combo like you get at Best Buy, but it's mainly for documents and not for art. The large format scanners are expensive, not to mention big and bulky, so this person has to scan half the document, then the other half and then connect the two halves in Photoshop or other graphics program to get it into the computer. Wouldn't it be nice if that artist had a smaller page to work with in originating his or her art? The artist could not only draw smaller, but instantly go from paper to scanner.
That was our idea when we created Panel Pages, based on an incident that happened with me wanting to scan a large page and not being able to without the common hassle of scanning both halves. While I've had this idea in mind for awhile, for some reason this incident really pushed me to move on it. It started with cutting paper 8 x 11.5, an inch wider and taller than the 7 x 10.5 size the pages are reduced to in Photoshop to be made print ready for the digital comic book printers like Ka-blam, ComiXpress or Rink.
On February 26, 2013 we set up a Kickstart to get funds to back this project and on Sunday March 17, we made our $1500 goal! And we still have twenty some days to go and are still getting funds. It was awesome to have people like Trent Kaniuga, Dan Fraga and Shawn Alleyne back this project. We also have an Indiegogo for people who want to use Paypal to help with this project. Thanks to all those that helped. We will do the best we can to get this done and done well.
We've been talking to paper companies including paper giant Strathmore and the art chain Utrecht, which makes it's own paper products so sometime in June we should be rolling out Panel Pages. See you then.
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