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Yoc:
While answering a question on GC Archives using modern colouring Ross reveals his plans for EC and a new project called Sunday Funnies here -


--- Quote ---Bill,
I understand your preference for the old comics coloring.  As limited as it
was, it was the state of the art in the 1950s, and the old EC comics that we
all love were colored that way because it was the only way to go.  So you,
and those who agree with you, should buy the EC Annuals, which reprint
the comics on newsprint and with the old way of coloring.  The linework is
not as crisp and sharp, the colors are often garish, but the beauty of
the EC stories and art still comes through.

But technology changes.  We are now able to color these comics with an
infinite palette, and to reproduce the artists' linework much more
clearly.  If these new computer generated color techniques had been
available in the 1950s, I think Bill Gaines would have used it because
it makes the EC work even more beautiful.  So the EC material has been
printed three different ways:  with the old color, as originally published
back in the 1950s, without any color, as it was drawn by the EC artists (the
EC Library), and with the best color we can do with modern technology (the
EC Archives).

It has been my experience that the most dedicated EC fans are not satisfied
to have them reprinted only one, or two, ways.  They want them all.
Those fans will have the old comics in the EC Annuals, the black and white
art in the EC Library, and the best color we can produce in the EC
Archives.  There's room there for everyone.

Incidentally, I am launching a new publishing venture called the SUNDAY
FUNNIES, reprinting old full page Sunday comic pages in FULL SIZE and FULL
COLOR, just as they were originally published.  These will be monthly
32-page comic sections, printed on good paper.  You should love them!

Russ Cochran
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