Lecture 005

4 Colorism, or, the Ashiness of it Al: https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2019/05/4-colorism-or-the-ashiness-of-it-all/ 4 Colorism, or, White Paper/Brown Pixels: https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2019/05/4-colorism-or-white-paper-brown-pixels/

The Ashiness

Problem: Green characters as Blacks

• Shirley Card: used to adjust color chemicals (calibrated to whiteness)

Color loss in comics

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DC printing

• at World Color Press in Sparta

• The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics

• 80's: Baxter paper (heavier, less absorbent)

• offset printing become popular with DC lead

• as they use better paper, white paper does not agree to white skin, and strips become indistinguishable