Monday, August 15, 2016

Fake Comics Part Two - Coda


Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), Hugo Pratt (a), Gisela Dester (a), "Ticonderoga". Sgt Kirk # 29, November 1969.


Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), Hugo Pratt (a), Gisela Dester (a), "Ticonderoga". Frontera # 12, March 1959.



Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), Hugo Pratt (a), Gisela Dester (a), "Ticonderoga". Frontera # 12, March 1959.

If the idea is to transform a landscape page into a portrait one I would say that the solution is to put two pages on top of each other. This is far from an elegant solution and it may be argued that the layout is false again. Agreed... these matters are never easy and subjectivity rears it's ugly head with each step (what really bothers me is that, apart from yours truly, nobody cares; this art form deserves to die!). In any case I accept this solution, which, contrarily to what he chose to do when Ivaldi reprinted "Sgt. Kirk," is what they both did for the "Ticonderoga" reprint in Sgt. Kirk magazine.

The washes, if we can call those blots that, in the Italian edition, are just senseless textures. But that's another problem, of course. Only recently, with the rise of the graphic novel, publishers and editors who care, and better technology, did production values reach great levels.

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