(Page Sold) Eltingville Club #2 Page 5

Scanning some pages that recently sold. This scan is of the raw inks for page 5 from the last Eltingville story. You can see traces of blue pencil underneath some of the inked lines, and the edges of a pasted-down lettering patch in panel ten. There's also Pentel pen correction ink visible, if you look at panel 4, Jerry's shoulder beside the bottom lettering balloon is all whited-out. There's many touches of white ink over Bill's face in panels 5 and 6, and on him and Jerry in the final panel (among many other places). All in all this wasn't a page I did all that many corrections on, some pages from this issue are so worked over I can't sell them because there's multiple elements on multiple pieces of paper, lots of replacement patch heads were necessary on the last four or five pages. Almost all of the Club member heads in the Ecto-1 sequence were redrawn and dropped in digitally. A disaster.

The published page was digitally cleaned and assembled by Sarah, not only to replace all those goddamned heads but to remove stray pencil lines, the edges of the lettering patch and any noticeable dirt. Normally the pages get scanned in black and white at 600 dpi for cleaning and print. This is a warts-and-all low-res scan that's more "true-to-life". Although originals tend to look crisper and darker in person, they rarely look as clean as they do in print -- unless you're looking at something like an artist's editions, where they want to reproduce the actual look of the original art as an object, with no digital work getting in the way of seeing the stray lines, dirt and corrections that exist on the board.

I've got two more pages to scan, which I'll post this week. I am scanning them as b&w art for my files, as low-res images and as 300 DIPI scans in case I want to post them as prints.

It feels like I drew these things centuries ago.