How Comics Were Made: A Visual History From the Drawing Board to the Printed Page
Announcing a new Kickstarter campaign for a book project I’m collaborating on. I am fortunate enough to be working with the author, editor, and printing historian Glenn Fleishman on this deeply researched, heavily illustrated, and diligently crafted book on how comics get from the mind of a cartoonist to a sheet of newsprint or your computer screen. This is a fun and interesting tome filled with rarely or never before seen historical artifacts, interviews with cartoonists, comics historians, and print production experts. The feeling of joy you derive from reading comics is a mere blip in the long, arduous, and time consuming journey a comic makes to get it from the cartoonists hand onto the printed page or into your inbox. Glenn has been traversing the country himself on research junkets, meeting with me at the Small Press Expo in Maryland over the summer, heading off to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at The Ohio State University, The Charles M. Shulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California, and even a trip to his local newspaper production facility. He’s also been conducting interviews with a bevy of heavyweight mainstream, and alternative cartoonists such as Gary Trudeau, Derf Backdorf, Lynn Johnson, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Bill Griffith, Brian Walker, and Matt Bors, and academics, historians, and…
