Bleed dimensions are 266x188mm, so I know that my printed book will end up as 260x182mm. Let’s say you have the same A4 sheet, and you’d like to size it to US standard with bleed by height (target dimension = 266mm – US standard height + bleed):Ĭracking. Of course at this stage I add my bleeds (3mm on each side, so 6mm to the height and width in total) to get my total drawing canvas – 244x174mm: comfortably inside the UK standard I was aiming for.Īs with the printing and using a ruler method this will work with any size so long as you have one target dimension. These days you can spend a little extra money and buy pre-ruled comic boards, but back in the old days, they did it by hand. 11'x17' sheets of heavy, high-quality art paper called bristol board, are used in most cases. omic artists draw larger than print size, and comic art typically gets reduced before it goes to press. I, personally, have no time for decimal places, so I round to the nearest whole number and end up with a live canvas of 238x168mm – that’s the size my book will be when it’s printed, and I’ve maintained my aspect ratio. Original Art Dimensions for American Standard Comics. Photoshop kindly informs me that I’m working to a canvas of 237.64x168mm. For the sake of argument I’ve decided that I want this A4 page to go from 210mm wide to 168mm so that I can get 4 spreads to a sheet: Now stick your desired dimension into the relevant box. Have you got photoshop? Or equivalent? Super.
I only did them because everyone always tells me that I don’t put enough pictures in the blog posts… You don’t think I’m sitting here with printouts and a ruler, do you? Jeez – those took ages to make and were super boring. Isn’t there an easier way to work this out? Here’s what that looks like (working with the assumption that you’ve allowed for bleeds as you’re drawing):Īnd that’s just gangbusters, because 246x174mm bleed size gives you a trim size of 240x168mm, which you’ll recall is the maximum size you can print at and still get 4 spreads to a B2 press (saving yourself lots of money).
Let’s say you’ve drawn on an A4 sheet, but want to print at UK standard. Work out how tall you want your book to be, take your printouts, rule off from the desired height to the desired scaling guideline and you’ll have your print width. All that means is that it won’t scale into a standard size. That’s fine, that’s not a problem at all.
It’s at 194mm trim and 200mm bleed.) But I’ve already drawn everything at A4! If you want to print something at US standard size, and you’re drawing it on an A4 sheet of paper, you have a dead space at the edge of the page that you can’t use (see where the leftmost dashed line reaches the top, but hasn’t reached the right hand side yet? Everything right of that is dead space – draw a line down from that point of intersection and you’ve marked it off.
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