Hey , hope you're well.  

So now the Kickstarter for Digitopia 1.0 is over and thanks to your support we got fully funded!

The first order of business was to have a call with the newly formed team - I'm really fortunate to have such a talented and dedicated team making this comic.

So we've split the tasks up.

We've had a fair few of the backers send in their likeness of reference photos for Seb to start doing character sketches of them.

The rest of us have been working on the edit of issue 1. 

As part of hitting out stretch goal, we managed to get a professional comic book editor - Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou - on board.  

Getting a comic book editor on board has proven to be such a shrewd move - you know from my previous emails that surrounding yourself with people who are better than yourself at something is the key to making great books (or any product for that matter).

I'm a big believer of having an editor on the team - some people see it as a luxury, but I think it's an absolute necessity.  

In our two edit sessions so far, Hass has really pushed us to understand the core of the story - the 'why' behind the story.  

The questions he asks aren't easy to answer, in fact we've all spent many long hours between edits getting to the crux of the story.  

The difference between an editor and the art team, is that though you don't see the editor's work directly on the page - all the questioning and rationale behind the 'why you are writing a story' starts to flow to the artists' to bring it to life in a multi-dimensional way. 

So we're aiming to have finished the edit in the next few days and rework our trailer so it's not so Kickstarter specific.  

Also we're aiming to get the character sketches done and post some updates on that too.

Okay hope the sun is shinning where you are.

Speak next week again.

Thanks

Farhan