Blah. So one of the things that's going to be a bit of a concern with taking Multiplex to print is the fact that it's created in RGB, and print requires the art to be CMYK.

What I'm doing is maintaining an RGB workflow on the artwork, until the very end, where I'll be converting the art to RGB. The colors will shift a little; reds and blues will be a little different, but mostly it should look the same, and it will still look good. But blacks are going to be a bit of an issue.

The black in the RGB files is 0/0/0 (R/G/B), while black in a CMYK file is 0/0/0/100. But when you convert colors from RGB to black, you get a MIX of all four inks. This will result in some richer blacks, which should be fine for the artwork itself — but it's kind of dangerous for the lettering and panel borders. If there's the slightest misalignment, the lettering will look fuzzy. So, I have to go into all of the old strips and recolor the lettering and borders to a spot color, which will convert cleanly to 100% black only (by setting it up as an "ink alias" in the color conversion. That's what I'm doing right now. It's terribly tedious.

Anyway. I hope to get another bonus strip done later today (maybe, maybe not). Multiplex will be back to a twice a week update schedule for the near future, so I'll be able to put the time I've spent in the last two weeks on that third update towards the book instead. (The last two weeks have had a lot of new backgrounds and changes of clothing for the characters, too, so they've been more time-consuming than usual.)

With luck, the Chapter 3 eBook will be available by the end of next week, and I'll be on to Chapter 4!