Belated Valentines post. Here's the cover from issue #7 of my Captain Jack series, drawn in 1986. Scanned from the transparent printer's proof. In those days I made my color separations in the cheapest possible way, mainly by making three acetate overlays, labeling one "C" one "M" and one ""Y" and then plastering them with zip-a-tone.
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For my first colour tee-shirt, I made four b/w xeroxes of the orginal art. Using white paint I removed everything that wasn't supposed to be one-colour from each of them, creating black, red, blue and white separations. It was a lot of work, but you can't do it any cheaper than that!
I remember the cover seps you did for SHORT ON PLOT. Although I'd seen and been doing seps for MU, I hadn't before seen one done the way you did it, and I was initially baffled by all of the sheets with little blobs of zipatone on them. When I realized what was going on (and a great big sunrise 'dawned' on me), I was, in equal parts, impressed by the production knowledge and skill you employed, and astounded that anyone would have gone to that much trouble in using so much zip spread out over so many sheets -- some had only a tiny patch, some had large sections of zip, and each page noted with the production color and percentage.
And, of course, it all worked brilliantly.
And, of course, it all worked brilliantly.
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