So Dave decided to use all his experiences and love for the art form to create this pod cast. With them moving from the long boxes in the comic book nerd basement into pop culture with the success of their blockbuster movies. So, now here we are in a golden age with these characters we all know and love. This knowledge has made him appreciate and love this medium even more. Through this experience he has met many artists, writers and celebrities and learned a new appreciation for the art form he enjoyed so much.įrom the writing and drawing of a comic to the production of a movie or tv show based on these characters. Dave has worked at over 13 conventions since first volunteering and has worked in almost all conceivable jobs at a convention. In 2000 he began attending comic book conventions on a regular basis and in 2007 decided to begin volunteering at conventions. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Falling in love with comic books at a young age Dave has always been a huge comic book fan. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy.
Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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