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meetings, and poring over the sketches and final pages to tweak the dialogue... After we’ve hashed out the story, either from chats or the rough script, Isa does a series of blue-line sketches that I approve. Then Isa inks the pages and sends them to our amazing colorist Gisele to flat. Once Isa has the pages back, she shades them and passes them on to me. I letter the pages in
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