[Comicsstudiessociety] Print production of comics

[Patrick D. Holt]

Because I happened to have Photoshop open, I was able to quickly find a
date on the plate itself, and it looks like either 1980 or 1990:

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[image: image.png]

Maybe this was used to print collected editions? Or given its Christmas
theme and size, maybe it was used to make special prints to be sold as
artwork?

Good luck, and let us know when you solve the mystery!

Patrick Holt
Comics studies dilettante
Durham, NC

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 2:26 PM Glenn Fleishman via ComicsStudiesSociety <
comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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,
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> 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:
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> The seller appears to have no information about it.
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