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my knight in shining armour

A completed (56p) Like A Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name / Yakuza fan comic by Dirchansky. Comic features major game spoilers. The story mainly features Shishido Kosei/Tsuruno Yuki, pre- and post- game canon. Contains blood, trauma, violence, etc. (everything that you'd expect from the game). Created with Krita (see process).

cover for My knight in shining armour, featuring Shishido carrying a bloody Tsuruno over his shoulder.

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Printed zine

photo of the printed zine front cover

photo of the printed zine front and back cover

photo of the the side edge of the zine, showing yellow and white paper signatures

photo of the spine edge, with kettlestitch

photo of interior cover cardstock with diecut of a hand reaching through bars. There's a lion plush next to it

photo of the interior cover cardstock with a diecut of a lion and crane silhouette. There's a lion plush wearing aviator style sunglasses nearby

photo of an interior page spread with black and yellow colour

photo of an interior page spread of black ink scene that spans both pages, printed on white paper. A lion plush wears sunglasses on their head nearby.

photo of an interior page spread of black ink scene that spans both pages, printed on yellow paper. A lion plush is nearby, with sunglasses that have fallen off their head

Specs

  • Pages (including cover): ~70 (mostly B/W, but 8 pages are full colour); includes extra pages of bonus and freetalk stuff compared to the online version
  • Size: 5" x 7.75"
  • Binding: handbound kettlestitch using 30wt linen thread
  • Trimming: very poorly hand trimmed with a cutter blade...
  • Cover stock: 65lb cardstock
  • Interior stock: 20lb copy white, 20lb copy yellow
  • Printing: black and white pages printed on my home laser printer; colour pages printed self serve at my local library branch
  • Diecut: Cricut joy xtra

MY OWN SCRUNGLY PRINT COPY!!! I botched the hand trim job (I used a dull blade on the right side and it tore up that edge really badly HAHA. The top/bottom were trimmed with a new blade and turned out MUCH better. I experience this with printing Here We Are too (a 170p+ book) — the emotional devastation of binding something together, only to have the final (bad) trimming step wreck the whole thing. The binding took a while because there was so much thread tangle (for 8-ish signatures, 2 of those "signatures" are the front and back cover). Cricut design software is SO BAD.

I had too much fun laughing at myself while staging this photoshoot with Tsuruno and Shishido-inspired things. The sunglasses on lion represent the most genius galaxy-brained thing I did on this project. I decided to try to save money and not get the covers printed in full colour. Partway through printing my printer toner said it was OUT and I had to REPLACE IT but luckily I found a workaround to reset the message and get a few more pages printed before I have to pay $$$$$$ for new toner.

If you are a rare type who reads my ramblings and are potentially interested in a print or digital copy, you can submit your non-committal interest here! I don't make promises...but I can become motivated by the power of Shishido and Tsuruno fans...