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Jul 29 10 5:32 PM
Silver Age
FourColorProcess wrote:Years ago, Russ Cochran printed full size EC stories from original art as the EC Portfolios, right?
I was in Bill's office, on one of my regular visits. There was a package, a brown paper-wrapped package of EC art that he had pulled for [Woody] Gelman for the Nostalgia Press book [The EC Horror Library, 1972]. He said to me, "You know, if I hadn't kept all this stuff, I wouldn't have the art now to do this book." Of course, this was the first original EC art I had ever seen. I was immediately struck by how big it was, and by how detailed it was. I picked up a piece of Ingels art, and I looked at all the little fine pen scratches in it, and I thought, it's hard to see why they went to this much trouble to do something which they knew was going to be printed on very cheap pulp paper, and smeared over with rather loud and sometimes garish colors and so on, and still they put all this detail into the work. I remember the "Food for Thought" splash that Krenkel did, with all the incredible fine detail work. I went over to Bill's bound EC volumes, which he had in his office, and opened up to that page, and a lot of it just didn't survive reproduction: just kind of mashed together. So I thought, "Boy, wouldn't other EC fans love to see it this size?" But that was a little impractical because 18 inches by 13 inches, which was the size, was too big - I guess the printer that I went to, maybe his press wasn't that big, or something. But at any rate, I decided to go a little smaller, like 12 by 16, or something like that. Slight reduction from the original size, but I could still, by offset photography and the lack of color, present the EC art in something like its original form. My feeling was that it had never been seen in all its glory; that it had just been seen in comic books as it had been printed.
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