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alexarkadin wrote:

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hmendryk wrote:

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famac wrote:

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The credits relect a change in process for the Crime volume.

No, the credits do not reflect a change in process. The Superheroes book included stories that had never been colored before, most notably Captain 3-D. I colored them in a manner comparable to what was used in Simon and Kirby publications but it was my coloring. In recognition of this the credits became "Art Restoration and New Colors". However this same credits were mistakenly applied to the Crime volume as well. All the contents of the Crime story were restored from original comics and no new coloring was done.

Harry

Right on the title page of the Superheroes book: Art restoration and new colors by Harry Mendryk.
The story "Stuntman Crowns a Jungle Lord" was also colored by Harry I assume.

Yes along with the two other unpublished double page Stuntman splashes. I also colored the two last Fighting American stories in the volume. The Vagabond Prince story "Trapped On Wax". I am going by memory but I believe that is it. No I am wrong there was also the unpublished cover for FA #2 for Harvey.

Harry 
  

famac wrote:

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Here's a sample of the original comic versus S&K Crime.  Note flesh tones use the modern mix of magenta and yellow dots.  Also note a mistake was made on the color of the womans hair - in the original the hairs is a mix of cyan and magenta bars, while the restored version feature magenta bars with blue dots.

Also note that the colors are ultra small dots on the remaster compared to solid tones on the original.  The ultra tight dot matrix is the reason so many comics today can be over-colored.

Shame on you famac. I have gotten used to you constant attacks and inaccurate statements. But to take over a thread about someone else's book to do so?

Harry

famac wrote:

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Haha - that's the pot calling the peddle black. Anyway - people are talking about it on this thread.

Here is what you wrote on this thread, Harry:

"However this same credits were mistakenly applied to the Crime volume as well. All the contents of the Crime story were restored from original comics and no new coloring was done."

My constant attacks and inaccurate statements? All of the coloring in Crime is new. It's not the original coloring, but a replica of it - as plainly seen above. I understand what you are saying - you didn't change any colors (although you clearly changed the skin tones on every page) but the fact is the last two books are working from restored line art and color reconstruction - the Marvel method - and 'the Best of' was largely cleaned up scans.

I normally wouldn't respond in someone else's thread in this manner - but you must think people are stupid or something - that they can't see the truth right in front of them - and you just keep on pushing the same nonsense.

But the worse part about it is you and I have had the debate about line art reconstruction many times on this board. You were always the big purist - restoring line art was redrawing and "the Marvel books aren't the real art" - and now you are using the exact same method I have promoted in countless posts - but you just won't man up and admit it.

Famac,

My last post on this subject in this thread (I have no doubts that you will reappear on Titan threads).

1) Other than objecting to using Simon for promoting Gagne's book, my one comment in this thread that concerned the books I worked on was in response to you. I should have known better.

2) Why quote mine my post look at it all:

    famac wrote:The credits relect a change in process for the Crime volume.

LOL! Where do you come up with these ideas? No, the credits do not reflect a change in process. The techniques used for Crime were also used in Superheroes. But thanks for bringing it up because it gives me the opportunity to explain the Crime credits. The Superheroes book included stories that had never been colored before, most notably Captain 3-D. I colored them in a manner comparable to what was used in Simon and Kirby publications but it was my coloring. In recognition of this the credits became "Art Restoration and New Colors". However this same credits were mistakenly applied to the Crime volume as well. All the contents of the Crime story were restored from original comics and no new coloring was done.

And I am not quote mining. That is all that you wrote in your post. The "new coloring" that I mentioned in my reply was as used by Titan's credit, not as by you, you never used the term in your original post.

3) I never claimed that that I was not restoring colors. Sometimes I can use the original colors, sometimes I can't. Take a look at the splash for Burned at the Stake. Look at the light blue in the uniforms. Original color. You are inaccurate about the changing skin tones. Yellow dots were used, at least in many cases. It is just that they used the same angle as the magenta and the ink has faded. Using the same angle can result in Moire patterns so I had to change that. Despite your claims my fundamental methods have not changed in any of my volumes.

4) Man up about now using the Marvel method? I notice that all your comments lately have been about the color, not the line art. That is because the line art is 100% Simon and Kirby. Whereas some (many or most?) Marvel restorers recreate the line art. I have carefully examined in my blog two or three Marvel reprints and found recreated art in them. Heck one Marvel restorer even admitted to doing it in an older thread from this site.Theakston uses bleaching and I have never objected to the quality of his work, quite the contrary I have always found it completely accurate. It is the use of recreated art that I object to.

Now rant on to your heart's content. As I said in the beginning this is the last time I will respond to you in this thread.

Harry