{"id":1957,"date":"2011-01-14T07:21:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2011-01-14T07:21:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T12:21:31","slug":"the-four-color-process-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/the-four-color-process-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four-Color Process Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about comic book coloring processes recently, just letting myself brainstorm how I would print a so-far imaginary color epic. As part of this, I&#8217;ve been researching older methods for getting a lot of colors out of a few different inks. So, I was particularly struck by this <a href=\"http:\/\/4cp.posterous.com\/\">Four Color Process site<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2010\/12\/7884.html\">Dan Nadel linked to<\/a> at the end of December. Here are a few images and a quote from their <a href=\"http:\/\/4cp.posterous.com\/in-defense-of-dots-the-lost-art-of-comic-book\">manifesto<\/a> (written by John Hilgart):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-01-14_image1.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;in [a] decisive, paradoxical twist, [the] four-color process created a form of depth even as it fought against illustrative realism. Whereas contemporary reproductions of mid-century comic art are truly closed and flat, old comic books are visually leaky and deep. Four-color dots perforate the flat surface of the universe, opening onto nowhere \u2013 some uncharted cosmos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more Click here for more --><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-01-14_image2.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of beauty and mystery in these blown-up images of old comic book pages.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2011-01-14_image3.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about comic book coloring processes recently, just letting myself brainstorm how I would print a so-far imaginary color epic. As part of this, I&#8217;ve been researching older methods for getting a lot of colors out of a few different inks. So, I was particularly struck by this Four Color Process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-four-color-process-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}