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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Munango-Keewati wrote:</font></div><div><html><br></html><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">I'm curious. Does anyone know what technology is used today in</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">producing this books? Years ago there would have been color</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">separations done by hand for each of the four colors. Is it all</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">digital now? Is coloring done on a computer?</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>Color is pretty much all done on computer now. The "traditional" methods are definitely a thing of the past, at least in commercial terms. It certainly is so with comics.</div><div><br></div><div>Gemstone would not have to go to the time and expense that once would have been required to redo the color, but time and expense are still involved.</div><div><br></div><div>And no, Barks did not color his comic book stories. Very few comics artists did (or do). A key reason for this is that publishers, for a good long while, saw coloring as production, not creation. Many still do. And even today they want artists drawing, not doing something that can be done much more quickly and at less cost by others.</div><div><br></div><div>Gary</div></body></html>