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Yeah I finished CreateSpace. I mastered CreateSpace. I became LORD AND MASTER OF GODDAMN CREATESPACE.

I finished uploading and editing and finishing the comic, and its now on it's way to me - 20 copies (because I couldn't really get any more right now and seriously, there needs to be a CreateSpace UK so I can order them from the UK and not the US of A to get them cheaper and faster) for me to take to the Cardiff Comic Con.

Things man, they be happening all over the place.

Additionally, I came up with a new character called Cake Radge. Here he is:

Other than this terrible news, I am doing other things but I don't feel like telling you about them now.


Like thinking about doing some more short stories. Dammit, my plan failed!

CreateSpace makes me spit blood from my eyes

I'm having a few issues shall we say with Create Space, Amazon's book creating website which users are able to upload their work to, then have copies printed on demand by Amazon in America/the UK. I created my book Scourge there and it took a while (also the realisation I never included page numbers), but it worked.

Comics however are a whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooole different thing all together. I didn't know what a DPI was so I Googled it - only to have the internet laugh snarkily at me as it said "DPI doesn't exist".

IF IT DOESN'T EXIST WHY IS CREATE SPACE SHOUTING AT ME ABOUT IT I HATE YOU INTERNET AND YOUR STUPID FACE

So after a while some less snarky websites told me something about PPI (at which point I broke out in a cold sweat, felt very dizzy and blacked out) which is apparently not the type of Payment Protection Insurance I may or may not have to deal with on a goddamn daily basis, but something to do with pixels per inch or some such balls.

Anyways, long story short the internet failed to help much at all, because whilst I managed to get some of my images for the comic to the correct (apparently non-existent) DPI number (which is 300 in case you weren't wondering), ten of the images still aren't DPI 300 enough for Create Space so its still shouting at me. I don't know what else I am supposed to do, short of screaming at people on the street and handing them crumpled copies of the ten comics Create Space doesn't appear to like.

What's not to like?

This one has a foot in it (sidenote: I HATE FEET)

Stuck on the train

 On my way to get a new passport because mine expired in 2009, but the train is delayed because of an accident between Cardiff and Newport.

They are trying to switch tracks for the train and go the other way to Newport waah.

This is my view now

I've never had sunburn before

Seriously, how do people cope with this? I went out with a friend to an anti racism demo last weekend, and apparently caught the sun - something I've never managed before because when I was a child my dad made my sister and I wear so much sunscreen we looked like ghosts, and as I got older I never really wore little enough to catch it (I was such a goth) or it wasn't nearly sunny enough.

Its very strange. People were giving me funny looks in work and everything. I bought some stuff when the aftersun another friend gave me didn't really work, which was okay but it started to peel and I'm like WHAT IS HAPPENING whilst everyone else just thinks its normal.

Anyhow ...

Other than this strange development, I have been also working more on the comic. I downloaded the Kindle Comic Creator which is very good and I plan to use it once the comic is complete. It looks a bit crap on a normal £69 basic Kindle (the kind I have...) but I'm sure for all those people who were willing to pay way more money than I was will enjoy the colours and everything.

Here's an accurate representation of how I felt when I got sunburn:

I only have myself to blame - I was wearing a vest top and absolutely no sunscreen. Although I did only manage to get burnt on my shoulders and part of my chest, because my hair was apparently covering the rest. Fast times at Sarah Harding-Roberts High!