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Miracleman #16 p.8 - Olympus - Alan Moore & John Totleben

Artists: John Totleben (All) , Alan Moore (Writer)

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Title:	Miracleman #16 p.8 - Olympus - Alan Moore & John Totleben
Artist:	John Totleben (All)
Artist:	Alan Moore (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,835
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	8/9/2010
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Miracleman and and the Warpsmith Phon Mooda teleport Earth's supply of nuclear weapons into the sun. Thanks to Jim Warden I was able to put the original art for this page back together after buying part of it in an auction. The page is made up of a series of xeroxes of original art,There are several touch-ups on the actual board, in particular, many of the UN members and their headsets. In creating pages for Miracleman #16, John Totleben said, "The panels from that sequence were done as penciled drawings on separate pieces of paper, then photocopied to get the dark, grainy look and then pasted up onto the page. I don't remember what became of most of the original pencil art but it's possible they could have been sold with the rest of the bits and pieces from those pages, or even thrown out. The process is actually a somewhat primitive version of the modern "digital inking" approach where super-tight pencils are digitally enhanced in Photoshop to create black line art from the gray pencils. I wanted a different look for some of those pages -- a grainier, semi-tonal look to give it something of a "documentary" feel. I suppose nowadays it would be possible to get that effect more easily with Photoshop filters, but back then it had to be done with either screened photostats or the photocopy approach I used. Also, on the older photocopiers, tonal images would degrade in an interesting way when copies were regenerated several times (copies from copies from copies, etc.) -- the newer machines don't do that quite as well. The copies on those pages are probably third or fourth generation copies to get that particular effect. So it's another one of those weird antiquated things that could probably never be done again in quite the same way thanks to the advances and advantages of modern technology!"

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Mario B.
Member Since 2004

Posted on 8/9/2010

wooooooooooooooow

Jason Harris
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/10/2010

Nice pick up Keith

Sean Price
Member Since 2008

Posted on 8/10/2010

A pleasure to see these pages.

Edmond Yanga
Member Since 2008

Posted on 10/18/2010

What an Amazing page!

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