The Lerner Blog

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press After art lasers, prepress lasers, and 43-wides comes the 4-print. The term 4-print comes from the machine that outputs the proof, the Iris 4-print Proofer. (As with the 43-wide, this is no longer the machine we actually use to make the proofs.) The high-resolution PDF used to create the […]Read more "Stages of Production Part IV: 4-prints"

[Another post from now associate editor Greg Hunter.] Next week is Ray Bradbury Week in Los Angeles, in which the author’s ninetieth birthday (August 20) kicks off a series of Bradbury-related film screenings. None of which I’ll attend, being located in Minneapolis, but thanks to the Internet, I feel as though I’ve already experienced the […]Read more "Celebrating Literature in Public"

I don’t do this often, so I hope you’ll allow me a bit of a rant. I am not a Seth Godin fan. It’s not personal. It’s probably got less to do with whether Godin knows what he’s talking about and more to do with that we are in very different parts of the publishing […]Read more "Warning: Industry wonkery ahead."

As part of some science editing we’re doing here at TFCB, I’ve been reading about galaxies. Spiral galaxies specifically. I’m fascinated, partly because we live in a spiral galaxy—the Milky Way. (The image above is a NASA image of the spiral galaxy known as NGC 7331.) Galaxies are clusters of stars, gas, and dust that […]Read more "Make Your Own Spiral Galaxy"

By Carol Hinz Editorial Director, Millbrook Press After art lasers and prepress lasers comes the 43-wide. This stage gets its name from the 43-inch wide color imposition proof. (As an aside, this is no longer the machine we actually use to create these proofs, but the name has stuck.) (Journey into the Deep 43-wide; click […]Read more "Stages of Production Part III: 43-wides"

by Anna Cavallo We’ve had a very stormy week here in Minneapolis. This map shows observed precipitation over the Midwest from Tuesday morning to Wednesday morning, although I think it mainly reflects 9 p.m. Tuesday to 3 a.m. Wednesday. Look closely and you’ll notice that the left tip of the top red (heaviest rain) section […]Read more "Summer Storms"

…about this little announcement in PW. Welcome to the Lab,  Tessa, Brenna, and Maggie. Do have an absolutely clear idea of how this book is going to work? Nope. Am I confident that it’s going to be cool (and that getting there will be half the fun)? Yep. (photo courtesy Maggie Stiefvater)Read more "Why yes, I am excited . . ."

by Erin Finnegan, editorial assistant Has it been an entire year since my first post on this blog? I started interning here at Graphic Universe last July. Recently I’ve been upgraded to the position of Editorial Assistant. My first blog post here was about Otakon, a convention celebrating Japanese animation and culture held each year […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Exploring Otakon"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Did you read all about art lasers last week? All right then, we’re ready for prepress lasers. (Journey into the Deep prepress lasers; click to enlarge) Once art lasers are final, the layout goes to the prepress department. Many publishers don’t have in-house prepress departments, but we really appreciate […]Read more "Stages of Production Part II: Prepress Lasers"