comics

Client: university project

Format: A4

Output: 8pp

While studying for her degree, Pippa project managed the creation of a comic for West Mercia Police. A community partnership project based around the local policing bear, the project involved the creation of an eight-page A4 comic about the bear's adventures in solving crime and anti-social behaviour. The target audience were 9–12 year olds. Working in collaboration with a BA (Hons) Illustration student and a police sergeant, her role included:

• Creating a project timeline, distributing to all parties concerned, obtaining feedback and incorporating changes
• Chasing comic copy
• Briefing the illustrator once the copy had been obtained
• Organising meetings between all parties concerned to check progress
• Redrawing/colouring illustrator’s pencil drawings in
  Adobe Illustrator
• Laying out in InDesign, resizing and amending
• Sending out low-res PDFs to the client and illustrator for feedback and incorporating any amendments
• Liaising with West Mercia’s printing department
• Obtaining logos from both Hereford College of Arts and West Mercia Police
• Sending final low-res PDF artwork to the client for sign off
• Once approval obtained, sending press-ready PDF to print