Golden and Silver Age Comic Book Style
黄金期・銀の時代のアメコミ / 1938–1970 / Style / Illustration Styles
A grammar of exaggeration that came out of four colour printing on cheap newsprint. Heavy black outlines fence in every form, areas are filled by overprinted primaries and dot screens, and both motion and sound are drawn as shapes in their own right.
Heavy black outlines of even weight fencing in figures and backgrounds alike / Areas filled by overprinted primaries and a dot screen coarse enough to see / Sound effects hand lettered in capitals inside an outlined burst / Figures stepping out over the panel border, with speed lines drawn along the direction of motion
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Short story advertising drawn to survive printing on cheap paper · Explainers and promotions that must show one instant of motion
- Type
- Effects held in outlined bursts, dialogue set tight in caps
- Composition
- Panels sized unevenly, figures breaking slightly past the borders
- Material
- Heavy black contours filled by four-color overprints and dot screens
- Caution
- Laying on dots and primaries while thinning the contours means the drawing stops reading the instant the inks shift on press.
- Further study
- Jack Kirby's dynamism / Ben-Day dots and four-color presses / the Comics Code era
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