I started a company called IN Production (part of IN, Islamic Network) to put out Muslim art. The first project is NaseehaMan, a comic book. The comics used to run weekly on IN. Unfortunately, the author, Zuhair Munshey, has passed away, rahimahullaahu ta’aalaa. But the comic book is coming out this week inshallah.

We have a website for IN Production, where you can catch up on all our projects (www.inproductionmedia.com) and specifically for NaseehaMan (www.naseehaman.com), but they are not functional yet. So I decided to start blogging about it here and transferring the entries when the sites are up. It’s just such an exciting process and a lot of people have been waiting around for the comic book!

- Tuesday, June 24, 2008: Printing Proof

Today I went down to the printers and got the proof. It was supposed to be a “bluebook”, which is basically a monochromatic draft of the print, but it turned out to be a low quality draft print with all the original colors. It looks good - there was only one glitch with the upc bar code on the back, but the bro just went into IN Design and fixed it.

It was also really cool seeing the insides of the press - it’s not a huge company, but not too small either - the machines are pretty big and they have several, hooked up to computers, etc. I also learned some stuff about how they print (multiples of 16 are optimal). We now ordered our initial print of 1000 copies on good paper, with a pressed cover.

As soon as I got home, my mom read the whole thing and my kid sister read it next (they were the only ones home at the time lol). There’s just something about a comic book - it’s pretty irresistible. I don’t think there’s anything out like it on the market now - and I can’t wait until it’s out. :)

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