Miss Peach 6/2/72 daily by Mell Lazarus - A Cautionary Tale

I wouldn't normally post art like this on CAF. It came part of a small set of strips I bought and although a minor strip, there is something to be learned here. I am showing it here to remind others but especially myself that you must be careful in displaying your art. Time and light are not friends to any piece of art on paper and markers will fade and paper will yellow. There are a lot of things you can do to prevent this including keeping your art in areas without direct sunlight and perhaps even withough secondary/reflective sunlight. Use quality framing material including UV protected glass or plexiglass and archival materials. I've always had my comic art on the basement walls so only low voltage LED lighting was on the art but now that I have moved there can be some secondary sunlight coming in through blinds and edges of a window. I have a few pieces of original art which I had made high resolution copies of and those are framed instead of the originals and unless scrutinized closely, they are indiscernible from the original. That is something I am going to try and transition the other pieces I have up into copies instead of originals. I'll need to find a good printer for this and perhaps a better scanner than I have as my scanner has its issues. Anyway, look at this piece of art that is a few years younger than me. The years have been equally as cruel to both of us but the art had a preventable fate.