Savage Dragon Creator Larsen Shares Digest-Size Process With Fans

Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen has pulled back the curtain a little bit on the special [...]

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creator Erik Larsen has pulled back the curtain a little bit on the special "digest-sized" issue of the comic that will be released in August, giving some context to the experiment. "Sometimes I just make work for myself. Savage Dragon #190 will see print as both a standard 32-page comic and a digest-sized 64-page comic. Every page is bring drawn in such a way that it can be reconfigured as two pages in the digest-sized version of the book. Fun times," Larsen wrote. He added that the digest size is the standard version but that he has both coming out "Because fans are anal and will want to have their collections be complete and uniform in size. There are also guys that have comics bound into books--and this would be a speed bump. It's just being courteous to give them the option of buying it as a regular comic book. At the same time--if you'd like a novelty-sized book--there it is."

Page Layouts

Even notwithstanding the fact that he's been experimenting quite a bit with layouts, colors and the like in recent issues of the comic, this isn't the first time he's played with the format. He also wrote, "A similar kind of experiment went on with #64. Many of the pages were designed so panels could be rearranged to run as a strip in Comic Shop News. Here's an example....Here's that same page as a normal comic book page."

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He also shared the images below, saying, "I had a wild hair at one point that I'd try and sell Savage Dragon as a daily comic strip. The idea here was that each tier could be a strip in a newspaper. Here's a page from Savage Dragon #104. And here's that page as strips."

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