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EVERYONE!
The Legion of Andy is a comprehensive tome of knowledge concerning the history of how ink has been applied to paper over the years!
As a graphic artist and printer for more than forty years, even I learned a lot!
Enjoy everyone!

Fantastic and oh so informative!

Part 1—Roy Lichtenstein—the man who didn’t paint Ben Day dots
Part 2—Halftone dots, Polke dots, More Roy
Part 3—CMYK / Four-colour comic book dots vs. RGB dots on screens
Part 4—Pre-history, origins—Ben Day in the 19th century
Part 5—Ben Day in lithography
Part 5.5—French comic strips of the 1880s, & a forgotten Ben Day predecessor in letterpress
Part 5.75—A Lithographic Protocomic (?) from 1885
Part 6—Ben Day meets the Sunday Comics in the 1890s
Part 6.1—Tarzan and the Ben Day Dots—secrets of 1930s comic strip colour
Part 7—Ben Day Dots 1933 to 1937—the birth of the comic book
Part 8 — 1930s to 1950s: The “Golden Age” of Comics — exit Ben Day, enter Craftint

https://legionofandy.com/2016/06/20/the-history-of-ben-day-dots-part-6-2-fun-with-registration/


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