Years in the making, How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page launched this morning on Kickstarter! (Watch a replay of a live session in which I answered questions and showed printing artifacts.)

The book is based on research into the history of printing I’ve been in engaged in for the last several years coupled with visits to libraries and archives and dozens of interviews with cartoonists. It covers 130 years of newspaper cartoon history, showing original art, printing artifacts, and newspaper reproductions, examining how an artist’s drawings make their way through the production and reproduction process into print. I hope you’ll take a look!