How a Comic is Printed - Separations, Guides, etc... 0

[kpaqu1]

Bill Black of AC Comics just posted a great video of how his comics were printed in the 1980s-90s. He goes into detail about color separations, color guides, negatives, proofs, printing, and prepress. Highly recommend to learn about what you can buy related to original art. He also shows off some great artwork towards the end by Mark Heike, Erik Larsen and Brad Gorby.

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[Ditch Fahrenheit]

Excellent video.

Thanks for sharing!

[Sharkey]

As someone who owns quite a few color guides, this is a great video - thank you for sharing it! 

[spidey300]

Very informative video. Thanks for sharing 👍

[jcjames]

Absolutely fascinating!

I have been looking for a video that shows this exact detail about inking/coloring books for maybe a year or more.

Thanks for posting this. Utterly fascinated by this process!

 

[kpaqu1]

Looks like this will be a series of blogs/vlogs: billblacksbasicblack.com

Looking forward to more "behind the scenes" stuff.

[Kevin76]

I spent 20 years working on web presses, it's 12 long hours, in a hot warehouse, working with quick tempered hot heads yelling at people if they make a mistake, when the press breaks down, you get covered in oil, ink and blanket wash solvent all covered all over your hands and arms, breathing in paper dust and the the supervisor walks up to you and says "Wanna work overtime? It's not fascinating work, it's a bunch of BS and any monkey can be trained to do it.