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Full Color Madness!
Hi again, it’s me, Corey Breen, columnist here at Master Digital Color! I am a Senior Pre-Press Artist at DC Comics and also a freelance artist running my own Illustration & Cartooning company called CjB Productions. I have been writing this Print Perfect Column now for one year. you can also follow me on my [...]
The Brightest Page!
Brightest Day #0 comes out in stories across the country today, and I wanted to share yet another great example of the kind of work we do right here in DC Comics’ Pre-Press department. For this particular issue, I had to create put together a page from a bunch of different pieces of artwork all [...]
Blow Your Mind Up!
On April 12th, Adobe will release Adobe Creative Suite 5, and the advancement in Photoshop alone will make your head explode. New features of CS5 have been leaking onto the web in the past month, and I don’t think enough people know how incredible this release will be. Forgetting the cost of a new OS [...]
I need a panel repeated… “STAT”!
Ever read a comic book and you come across a panel, and suddenly get deja-vu? You stop and stare at that panel and realize you have seen it before. In THAT very issue, no less. So you flip a couple pages back and find the same exact panel that appears later on. More often then [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]