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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: casamanca on August 24, 2013, 10:15:18 PM

Title: In need of high-res scans for talk on comic printing process
Post by: casamanca on August 24, 2013, 10:15:18 PM

Hello good people of The Digital Comic Museum! My name is Gabriella and I'm a graphic designer based in NYC. In October I'm giving a talk at the American Printing History Association conference -- the theme of the conference is color printing, so I'll be speaking on the four-color process used to print midcentury comic books. This is something of vast interest to me from a design perspective though I've never been a real reader or collector of comics. I've had a blast researching the topic so far!

Anyway, I'm in need of some high-resolution images in the public domain, both for the talk itself (to show closeups of the art and its benday dots, registration errors, newsprint texture, etc), but also for a poster that will be printed for the conference. These both will have to be blown up considerably so I'm looking for pages scanned at very high resolutions -- something like 1200 dpi would be ideal (600-800 could be workable).

As I'll only need a few pages, I thought I'd put this plea out there: would any uploaders be willing to help me out and provide higher-resolution scans (happy to give you credit in presentation/on poster)? If so, please let me know what you have on the site that would be available, and I can send a list of a few pages that would work for my purposes.

Alternatively, if anyone knows of sources that already exist for high-res scans of these comics, please let me know!

Thanks so much!

Title: Re: In need of high-res scans for talk on comic printing process
Post by: aibq on August 25, 2013, 06:53:22 AM

I'm currently scanning Gene Autry #3 (Fawcett). If you would like a few pages from it I would be happy to oblige.
Jon@aibq.com