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Comics Syndication in Metal

If you ever wondered how cartoons went from an artist’s drawing table into hundreds of newspapers every day during the era of metal printing, this preview chapter from How Comics Were Made explains it all for you! The finished will be full of visually rich explanations like this, showing processes and artists’ work from the 1890s to 2020s.

You can download this preview chapter as a PDF or follow along in images below. Find out more at the Kickstarter campaign.

 

Preview Chapter

Introduction

Rough sketch of the opening page of the chapter

The first half of the overview process showing in artifacts

The second half of the overview process showing in artifacts

Cartoonists at work

Cartoonists at work

The engraving process: negatives

The engraving process: negatives

The engraving process: exposure and development

The engraving process: exposure and development

The engraving process: tinting

The engraving process: tinting

The engraving process: etching

The engraving process: etching

The production process: making flong

The production process: making flong

Shipping flong

Shipping flong

Newspapers: making a stereotype plate

Newspapers: laying out

Newspapers: proofing

Newspapers: making a full-page flong

Newspapers: making a full-page flong

Newspapers: casting a stereo page

Newspapers: casting a stereo page

Stereotype plate for newspaper page

Printing

The readers

Sources and Acknowledgements

 

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