A Room with a View!

Speeding into the next great era of DC Entertainment!
A Congrats to Dan, Jim and Geoff!

When I began seriously collecting comic books about 20 years ago (around 1989, when the first Batman movie was coming out), I knew I wanted to work in the industry.  The first comic books I opened, I knew that my career [...]

“Clip” Art

Sorry it’s been so long since my last column.  As you know, life sometimes gets in the way of side projects such as this.  January turned out to be a very hectic month for me, as after the holidays, my wife and I decided it was time to move out of our apartment in Queens, [...]

Post Holiday Blues

I have to admit, I honestly did not know what to write about for my next column.  Coming off a long holiday break, it became difficult to write this.  The end of 2009 was quite strange to say the least.  Going back to December, work got very busy with the holiday schedule that we were [...]

Let ‘er RING!

One of the main things we handle here in Pre-Press is lettering corrections.  Even though we have a lettering department right here across the hall from us, production artists handle a vast majority of the corrections.  If we continue to follow a comic’s production process, after a book is drawn, it is sent out to [...]

…Just Keeps Knitting, and Knitting, and Knitting!

A vast majority of the corrections I come across in Pre-Press are done at the very last minute, just about when the book is due to the printer to be put on the presses and mass produced to be shipped out to stores.  It’s always nice to be able to work well in advance of [...]

The Process

Before I start today’s column I want to thank everyone for their tremendous support over my column!  I have been waiting to talk about that project for so many years, and to finally get a chance to, and to be recognized for it across the comic book internet websites, was really a pleasure and an [...]

Who Cleaned the Watchmen?

One of the biggest projects I’ve ever had the pleasure of working on at DC Comics, has to have been Absolute Watchmen.  When the Absolute editions were announced, Watchmen became one of the biggest undertakings that Pre-Press got to handle in it’s history.  Each issue of Watchmen was to be collected in an over-sized volume, [...]

Green Lantern’s Unite!

Last week I talked about how to template your two page spread.  I talked about all the steps that you need to take to scan, art correct and create your spread into a DC Comics valid file according to their specs for interior comic book pages.  This week I wanted to share with you what [...]

FREEZE, Spread ‘EM!

So hopefully, you now know how to correctly template an interior comic book page the DC Comics way.  You’ve scanned all your pages in and templated all your pages, be it bitmap or grayscale.  “But Corey”, you say, “I drew a double page spread in my book, how do I template that?”  Well, now I [...]

Templating With the Best of Them!

I’ve been dreading writing today’s column for a while now.  To be honest, I wasn’t sure how I wanted to tackle the subject at all.  I can’t stress enough how important today’s column is if you want to be any kind of artist in the comic book industry.  If I haven’t scared you off yet, [...]