{"id":1251,"date":"2004-12-09T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/09\/hereville-page-20-is-finished-again\/"},"modified":"2004-12-09T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T22:45:07","slug":"hereville-page-20-is-finished-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Hereville page 20 is finished (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Sim (a great cartoonist, despite his appalling misogyny and homophobia) once advised young cartoonists &#8220;once a page is done, don&#8217;t finish it.&#8221; It&#8217;s wise advice, and I habitually ignore it; the day after a <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlamatic.com\/series.php?name=hereville&#038;view=current\">Hereville<\/a> <\/i>page is finished, I always spend a while making corrections.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t try to fix everything I don&#8217;t like about a page (that would be impossible!); but there&#8217;s always a few glaring errors that I have to try to fix.<\/p>\n<p>For example, among other problems with page 20, Mirka&#8217;s huge, engorged forefinger &#8211; far out of scale with the rest of her hand &#8211; really bugged me in panel two. And the warped glass (including a stem that had a different center line from the rest of the glass) in panel three really got under my skin, too. (The glass is still pretty awful after my correction &#8211; I&#8217;m terrible at drawing manmade objects &#8211; but it&#8217;s better than it was).<\/p>\n<p>Would most readers even notice? I doubt it, but stuff like that drives me crazy if I don&#8217;t correct it. Anyway, for the edification of the curious, below is a &#8220;before and after&#8221; of the two above-mentioned details of page 20.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hereville20before-after.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/images\/Hereville20before-after.png\" width=\"304\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Sim (a great cartoonist, despite his appalling misogyny and homophobia) once advised young cartoonists &#8220;once a page is done, don&#8217;t finish it.&#8221; It&#8217;s wise advice, and I habitually ignore it; the day after a Hereville page is finished, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}