Glog

How Comics Got Their Color

A four-page spread I wrote for The Nib is now available on its website! I explained in words and images how newspaper cartoonists marked color up on their comics for engravers in the printing plant to apply color through a very complicated process in the days of metal printing. I’m at work prepping a book that will go into crowdfunding later in the year that will cover that and a lot more about how comics were made for different eras of printing and the production process that got them on to paper.

 How the article appeared in print—the first of two two-page spreads
How the article appeared in print—the first of two two-page spreads