South Seas

[Gary Leach]

Daniel:

> I wonder why editors want to
> recolour old comics, even including rarities like 'Race to the  
> South Seas'.
> I've understood that a recent Gemstone-reprint of 'Race to the  
> South Seas'
> (in 'Disney Treasures') has been pasted together from several sources,
> including art by Jippes. Personally I strongly dislike such a frauded
> version.

Then you'll love the version that will appear in Egmont's CBC. The  
goal was to present the nearest thing to Bark's line art as could be  
managed (it no longer exists as original art or reproducible stats),  
and preserve the printed color as far as was possible. It was no  
small task to achieve, since the ink coverage and color registration  
on the source material - the original give-away - was abominable. It  
required cleaning up the line art without retouching it AND get the  
color into registration AND correct any mistakes by the original  
colorist AND eliminate as much as possible of the sheer garbage  
caused by the original dirt-cheap printing process.

For the record - and it's on record - Daan Jippes and David Gerstein  
are credited with restoration on the version of "Race to the South  
Seas" in "Disney Treasures".

Gary
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