Not all books were colored in the method spelled out here. The issues done by the NOW staff were painted blue lines using watercolors and dyes, brush and airbrush. Almost all of the covers I did were done this way. I think Volume 3 Issue 5 was the only one not painted.

Volume 3 Issues 8 and 9 were colored with a special set of markers. I can't remember what they were, but it was at the request of whoever was doing the color separations. As the markers ran out, the tones became inconsistent and basically looked crappy.

The color separations in Fangraphix Issue 4 (1985) was done by Tony Caputo and I by hand. This was done by pasting a stat of the art on a board and then taping three layers of acetate on top. Each layer represented cyan, magenta and yellow. On those layers we would adhere different screens of zipotone for tones and rubylith for solid color. If there was a tone for black, that was adhered right to the stat. This was extremely tedious, but was a good education on color breakdowns and helped when I colored the later books. Aah, the good ol' days before computers.

The digital coloring is complete for Volume 3 issues 19 through 23. This will comprise Comic Collection #8. Below will give you an idea of the difference. In the image, on the left is a scan of the original comic page and on the right is the new coloring.Besides the improvement in quality, mistakes are being fixed along the way. And every page has several mistakes. For most of the books, I indicated the coloring. This was done by making photocopies of each page to printed size. I then colored the photocopies with Prismacolor markers because they wouldn't smear the photocopy ink or bleed on the paper. Each area of color was then marked referencing a color chart from the printer. Each color had it's own id number. Tony Caputo allowed me to do 3-4 gradients per book. The fewer the better because they cost extra.

Many of the mistakes in coloring were due to the printer not following my marker indications exactly. So, sometimes you'd get a character's hand colored the color of their arm sleeve. And then there are the books that weren't colored by myself, and all I have to do is refer you to issues 16 and 25 of Volume 3. In the image below, on the left is a panel from issue 16 colored by the NOW staff, and on the right is the same panel that I did from issue 25.In the panel colored by the NOW staff, you can't even tell the dad is wearing a tie, and all of the cross hatching in the background, which takes time to execute, disappeared in a dark blue blur. Needless to say, I wasn't pleased. After crap like that, I was not the friend of the NOW staff.

[UPDATE: Sale is over, but stock that's left is still available.]

I guess this means there'll be no Snart movie. Below, inks I did for the cover of NOW's Ghostbuster comic.[UPDATE]: Finished coloring Volume 3 Issue 21, and now working on 19 and 20. Beer #24 is quite tasty.

UPDATE: One week later. Krausen has dropped (almost ran out of head space) and the beer is starting to clear. Two more weeks to go before transferring to the keg.Saturday saw the proud birth of beer #24. Isn't it adorable?Looks darker than it is - SRM is about 8.2. Also made a bread from some of the spent grains - lots of fiber and tastes like the wort.Working on coloring Volume 3 Issue 22 and the new book. Also finished a drawing I owed Barry Petersen.

Finished doing the digital coloring for Volume 3 Issue 23. The issue looks good better than the original NOW printed version. As I get a group of issues done, I'll release an ebook - free to download from the Snart Store. Next will be issue 22, and, yes, I am working backwards. I don't know why, I just am.

The Print is Dead Sale still continues until the end of March.

Currently working on digital color for Volume 8, which will be published eventually as a 100-page ebook of all new Snart stuff. Also, the digital color for Volume 3 Issue 23 for another comic book collection to eventually see the light. And updates to the RSA fan site.

If you hadn't heard, my store is nixing all print as of the end of March of 2014. After that, I'll only have digital book for sale.

After March 31, 2014, I'll no longer be selling anymore printed books, just digital ebooks only.

Supplies are limited!

My dad bought this car, a 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 four-door small-block 289, when I first started driving. He drove it a lot because it was fun to drive and it was used for all kinds of filthy errands like returning all of the returnables (a dime in Michigan) after a party. This picture is from 1982 after a large gathering of the cousins. I put this car in a ditch only one time.

Did a quickie interview over the holiday.