‘How Comics Were Made: A Visual History of Printing Cartoons’
Glenn Fleishman:
If you love newspaper comic strips, you will love my new book
How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board
to the Printed Page. I’ve combined years of research and the
diligent collection of unique comics printing artifacts with
dozens of interviews with cartoonists, historians, and
production people to tell the story of how a comic starts with
an artist’s hand, and makes it way through transformations into
print and, more recently, onto a digital screen. I need your
help to make it happen!
The book will be a glorious full-color celebration of the art
form, heavily illustrated from the 1890s to the present day with
materials that you’ve never seen before, drawn from my personal
collection and museums, cartoonists and their estates, and
institutions around the United States. It will also feature
never-before-published strips and versions of some popular comics.
I’m a sucker for labor-of-love books, and remain fascinated by the history of printing technology. So of course I’m backing Fleishman’s Kickstarter campaign. But I’ll bet a lot of you might share the same interest. Here’s a brief taste: “The Week in Doonesbury That Wasn’t” on YouTube.
The campaign is just short of 75 percent funded with three days to go.
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Glenn Fleishman:
If you love newspaper comic strips, you will love my new book
How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board
to the Printed Page. I’ve combined years of research and the
diligent collection of unique comics printing artifacts with
dozens of interviews with cartoonists, historians, and
production people to tell the story of how a comic starts with
an artist’s hand, and makes it way through transformations into
print and, more recently, onto a digital screen. I need your
help to make it happen!
The book will be a glorious full-color celebration of the art
form, heavily illustrated from the 1890s to the present day with
materials that you’ve never seen before, drawn from my personal
collection and museums, cartoonists and their estates, and
institutions around the United States. It will also feature
never-before-published strips and versions of some popular comics.
I’m a sucker for labor-of-love books, and remain fascinated by the history of printing technology. So of course I’m backing Fleishman’s Kickstarter campaign. But I’ll bet a lot of you might share the same interest. Here’s a brief taste: “The Week in Doonesbury That Wasn’t” on YouTube.
The campaign is just short of 75 percent funded with three days to go.