Start saving for The Complete Gaia!

Gaia will very likely come to an end next year, and I have already begun working on an anthology that will contain the whole comic,
The Complete Gaia!

I plan to sell The Complete Gaia as part of a Kickstarter campaign again. Of course nothing is decided yet, but I already have a quite clear idea about several things:

  • The Complete Gaia will be published in two volumes, with each of them having around 450 fully colored pages in A4 format (standard sheet of paper).
  • I definitely want to publish the books as hardcovers with a nice paper quality!
  • Apart from all the comic pages, the books will feature some commentary, sketches, and artwork from other artists on 40 to 50 pages. I will not publish a separate art book like The Art of Sandra and Woo this time since there just is not enough material available for such a book.
  • The special editions may come with stamps of the characters, the line “Will you come along?” in the first volume and the line “Yes, I will. Wherever you go.” in the second volume.
  • Printing in color is expensive, at least for small print runs. I found that the price per unit when printing 500 units is still high. But for 1000 units, it becomes quite affordable. It’s therefore my main goal to come as close to 1000 units as possible.
  • I therefore want to use a single print shop, preferably one located in Germany. This means shipping to the United States will be more expensive. But the cheaper printing due to the higher number of units should mostly compensate for this.
  • The books will weigh around 3.5 kg (7.7 lbs) together!
  • I will try my best to keep the total price including shipping below $100. But it should not come as a surprise that it will cost a bit to produce and ship two thick hardcover volumes in full color.

My favorite pages from The Way Back Home – Places 1 to 10

Last week, I posted the places 11 to 20 from my personal top list of all pages from the previous chapter The Way Back Home. Now I want to post my top 10. The following pages are listed in chronological order.

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My favorite pages from The Way Back Home – Places 11 to 20

I finally found some time to look back at the previous chapter, The Way Back Home and collect my 20 favorite pages from it. There were exactly 204 pages in the chapter, so this collection covers 10% of all published pages. This week, I’ll post the pages placed between 11 and 20. Next week, I’ll post my personal top 10. The following pages are listed in chronological order.

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Improvements to published pages

  • I have changed the dialog of San in the first panel of page 25 to: “A well-made forgery, created by Bhaal to deceive Eldor…”
  • Page 16 is now finally available in color!
  • I have improved the lettering of the pages 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 which were published during my Japan vacation.
  • I added the missing transcripts to all pages of the current chapter.

Back in Germany

After an exciting, eventful and exhausting vacation in Japan I’m now back in Germany. Unfortunately, I immediately caught a cold since it was awfully cold in the airplane on the way back home.

Updates will be irregular in the next weeks since I also have to work on the fulfillment of the Kickstarter campaign regarding the books for our American backers.