Random Thoughts

I did a Jerry Moriarty t-shirt last week, but then I went through the transparencies I printed last summer and found another one.  So I had to do another print.

For this shirt, I did without any pins or anything to line up the different bits of the print.  (The bar vs the rest of the image, basically.)  And using a really bright light to illuminate the screen, I got things lined up better than ever in this white and gold on blue print.  Whee!

Since most of my metallic prints go all wrong (due to insufficient curing or over-curing) I wanted to do another variation…  Er…  red and silver on blue?

Yeah, OK.  That’ll have to do.

(This is a panel from the Jack Survives one shot by Raw Magazine by Jerry Moriarty, who is a guy that should have done a whole lot more comics.)

I wanted to try to screen print a pre-rastered image, so I chose this rather striking face from a strip by Caro in one of the early Raw issues.  The images from that comic have remained vivid in my mind since I was a teenager. Especially from the last panel.  (Not featured here.)  If you’ve read it, you’d remember it as well.

Here’s a business idea: Reprint those eight tabloid sized Raw Magazine issues in one humongous book.  It’ll be the book of the year.  I re-read all of them the other month, and they’re all pretty fantastic.

(And they’re selling for like $150 per issue on Ebay, so somebody wants them…)

Err…  Those two colours go well together (I just mixed them on the screen), but that green ear looks unfortunate…

Ok, this time for real:

Yeah!  Silver on blue!  That’s the ticket!

Whatever happened to Caro, anyway?  The only stuff I’ve read by him? were in those early Raw Magazine issues.  Is this him? It says stuff like “It is also the first time we can see it as an actor.” in Google Translate.

Anyway!  I’m declaring the “printing dithered images project” a success.