Ash can comic 2

One Hundred Thirty Fourth Post: Ash can comic 2

In the days before the Net artist used to photocopy their comics on a black and white photocopier. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started this way. But with today’s computers and artist can post there comic to the web and pay to have it published latter. But what is your just an amateur that wants to create a small work (It could be a comic book or other written work.) and have a small circulation. The same photocopier techniques could be used, except now there is a lot more access to the tools.

Today’s inkjet printers can turn out a decent printing, but to save money on toner it would be easier to use a document place such as Kinko’s. The problem with home printers is that most of them can only handle paper that is 8 ½ inches wide. The largest the paper comes is 8 ½ by 14 inches. If the comic creator didn’t need the space they could use 8 ½ by 11 folded in half and staple in the middle. That is the size of a lot of Manga. The document place would have larger 11 by 17 papers which printed in black and white shouldn’t cost much more.

I’ve never drew an entire comic book, but if I ever make a publication this is how I am going to do it. To have something sent to a print shop would cost thousands of dollars depending on the number of pages and amount of books printed. But being a graphic artist when you make something considering how it is going to be printed. Fancy graphics are nice, but if the only printer is black and white an inked drawing is much more practical.

The Army drops leaflets and flyers all the time. And when looking at the leaflets of Desert Storm 1, one will see that it is just simple drawn cartoons. The printing is enough to send the message, but the quality is just enough to get the message across. At the time of Desert Storm 1 computers where not a common. The graphic artist was probably using inked line drawings and using a resograph to print them out.(I might not have resograph spelled right, but it’s basically a simple printer that uses solid colors. It doesn’t print fancy computer graphics.) So computer graphics have not replaced the artist. Instead, they have given the artist more options to distribute art, but simple methods of printing are still useful when distributing comics or other newsletters.