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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