Doug Van Pelt

I feel like a real magazine publisher now...

A knock on the door revealed a Fed Ex courrier this morning, and then I remembered, 'Oh yeah! I asked my printer to overnight me one of the cover forms yesterday, so I could look at the cover.' Someone at the plant made a mistake and printed "Form #1" before all 16 pages of it were approved via proofs. I wasn't pleased with the way the cover was looking, and I lowered the cover price for Canadians, as the value of their dollar is closer to matching the US dollar now, and I omited one of the articles from this issue and needed to take that artist's name off the cover listing. This hardly ever happens, as everyone is usually really careful about getting each page approved in the "pre-press" stage before the presses print them. For some reason, this one was printed prematurely. There was a chance that I could be happy with the "cut the guy's hair out as his head is placed over/on top of the HM logo" job that I had done previously. I wasn't happy with it and spent several hours on Wednesday night fixing it -- eventually lowering the photo size so no one's head laid on top of the HM logo. I'll post a couple versions up here for ya'll to preview.





Anyway, I opened up the package and then called the printer and told them I couldn't accept this cover. Sigh. I wanted to, but it's not worth it to me to compromise the quality of this issue.
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