Glenn FleishmanSep 5, 2023

My next big project is about comics, artists, printing, and the future of cartoons:

How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page https://howcomicsweremade.ink

I’ll cover from how artists draw their strips (on paper and on screen) to print production to the outcome as reproduction, from the 1890s to the present.

Kickstarter, Feb. 2024; planned pub. date: October 2024. Sign up for an email when the project launches: https://buttondown.email/howcomicsannounce

Mark Kaufman, designing

How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page

Show threadHarry McCrackenSep 13, 2023
@glennf Glennf + comics? I'm sold!
Show threadGlenn Fleishman
@harrymccracken Thank you! I hope to reproduce a certain Des Moines printing plant brochure in it (pending license; although it may be in the public domain). We should talk, too. I am curious about anything banging around in your head that would fit the rubric—I expect more than you might think about your own knowledge!
Sep 13, 2023 at 12:34amWeb
Show threadHarry McCrackenSep 13, 2023

@glennf I'm struck by the sheer enormity of some early originals. I have a couple of Mutt and Jeffs I can barely store. Conversely, when I went to an exhibit of Calvin and Hobbes art, I was a bit disappointed that Watterson's drawings didn't look that much different than the printed versions.

Also, the non-repro blue pencil on Walt Kelly originals feels like part of the artistic experience.

The notes to colorists on some art are fun, too.