Friday Archive Dive: Creating Comics in Adobe Illustrator

Today's Archive Dive comes from July 25, 2012, when Margaret Trauth, creator of Decrypting Rita, shared a tutorial on creating comics in Adobe Illustrator.

I figured it might be interesting to write a bit about my very idiosyncratic process of making comics directly in Adobe Illustrator. So here’s a start-to-finish about how a page happened.

Each page starts with me doing file->new from template and choosing the “Rita” template. I made this near the beginning of the story, and it’s slowly evolved along with the story. Up pops a new document window.

I figured it might be interesting to write a bit about my very idiosyncratic process of making comics directly in Adobe Illustrator. So here’s a start-to-finish about how a page happened.

Each page starts with me doing file->new from template and choosing the “Rita” template. I made this near the beginning of the story, and it’s slowly evolved along with the story. Up pops a new document window.

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Each page starts with me doing file->new from template and choosing the “Rita” template. I made this near the beginning of the story, and it’s slowly evolved along with the story. Up pops a new document window.