[Comicsstudiessociety] Print production of comics

[Glenn Fleishman]

Hello, folks,

My historic specialty relating to comics is in the print production of 
comics between an artist's drawings and the printed page. I've 
encountered and collected a wide range of material spanning the metal 
type/relief printing age, including engraved plates, flongs (paper-like 
material used to make molds to cast printing plate), flat stereotypes 
(plates cast from those molds), and even a newspaper stereotype of a 
comics page (a hemispherical lead alloy plate weighing about 40 lbs).

I'm eager to discuss this aspect if it's not off topic on this list, 
which it doesn't seem to be, and share information with other people 
also pursuing these threads. Most of the material I've obtained is 
ephemeral production stuff, things that have no intrinsic value except 
as an example. But I did purchase a sheet of weekday Doonesbury strips 
from 1973 in flong format (before they were cut up for casting for 
individual days) that includes strips that never ran or had to be 
modified before running due to Ehrlichman's resignation.

Most recently, I found a metal plate for sale on eBay that I can't 
determine the purpose of. It's incised, but isn't suitable for intaglio 
printing, which uses an incised process. Not being a relief surface, it 
could be used to make plates. If anyone has insight, I'm all ears: 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ebay.com/itm/354035653118__;!!KGKeukY!2kg89oAoLyzBeVx24M5zXZo6jjGDzwJUBBa_wJnAnlZ2aTyltTbFi_-WeS4FrLiR7j51YtofJzC-CpXpV-kDguoPpqE$  The seller appears to have no 
information about it.

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