How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page (Hardcover)

(W) Glenn Fleishman. How Comics Are Made covers the entire history of newspaper comics from a unique angle how they were made and printed. This book combines years of research and dozens of interviews with cartoonists* historians* and production people to tell the story of how a comic starts with an artist's hand and makes it way through transformations into print and onto a digital screen. You'll see reproductions of art and artifacts that have never appeared in print anywhere* and some historic comics will appear for the first time ever in any medium in this book. And you'll find out about metal etching* Dragon's Blood (a real thing)* flong (also a real thing)* and the massively* almost impossibly complicated path that original artwork took to get onto newsprint in the days of metal relief printing. Foreword by bestselling author Michael Chabon.