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Who Cleaned the Watchmen?

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, [...]

October 27, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 15 Comments

Green Lantern’s Unite!

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 [...]

October 15, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 5 Comments

FREEZE, Spread ‘EM!

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 [...]

October 9, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 2 Comments

Templating With the Best of Them!

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, [...]

October 1, 2009 Print Perfect 2 Comments

Can you DIG IT?!

Can you DIG IT?!

I’m going to take a little break from spurting off at the mouth and actually show you some hard graphic examples of some of the work that I do everyday on DC Comics monthly periodicals.  Since we are well into the column, I wanted to fast forward and show you some of the things that [...]

September 24, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 2 Comments

Editor’s! What are they good for?! UGH!

Editor’s! What are they good for?! UGH!

I ended my last column with a promise to tell a story about artists who found out what we do at DC Comics in the Pre-Press room.  This is a story of some artists that reacted much differently then Darwyn Cooke did when I told him about being a bullpen artist.  One night, we had [...]

September 17, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 1 Comment

“So it was YOU!?”

“So it was YOU!?”

Sorry I’m late with this week’s column.  As you probably know already, this has been one crazy week in the comic book industry.  News of Marvel/ Disney rocked the world for a while, and now news of Warner Brothers/ DC has hit just as hard.  I am not going to comment on any of that [...]

September 9, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 2 Comments

In the Year 2000 – Part IV

In the Year 2000 – Part IV

In the last part of my series on how we used to do production at DC Comics back in the early 2000’s, I will talk about art corrections.  I had previously talked about how we did lettering corrections, but the real fun part of my job and the other artist’s in the bullpen, was doing [...]

September 1, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 0 Comments

In the Year 2000 – Part III

In the Year 2000 – Part III

Continuing on with how we used to work on comics back in the early 2000’s in the DC Comics Bullpen, I have to reiterate how much fun it was work in this fashion.  When we got a book out of the draw, we never knew what kind of corrections awaited us.  It was really a [...]

August 25, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 0 Comments

In The Year 2000 – Part II

In The Year 2000 – Part II

Back in 2000, 2001, we had six production artists on the floor in the bullpen.  All the books filtered through our manager after the editors and proofreader marked up their corrections.  The manager sorted the books according to when they would be due to the printer, and when they were due in the comic book [...]

August 18, 2009 Features, Print Perfect 3 Comments
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