Fury of Firestorm #10 Page 20 by Yildiray Cinar. Inks over his own bluelines.

On something of a whim, Moby got a few pages from The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men with art by Yildiray Cinar. These are Yildiray inks over his own pencils, but on separate boards with the pencils printed out in blue lines. This issue features Raksashi, the nuclear woman from India!

For those who do not know, in printing there is a shade of blue (called non-photo blue) which does not show up in copies or in the negatives used to create printing plates. Artists use non-photo blue pencils when doing their layouts, and editors use them to mark corrections that must be made, etc. so that the notes and such do not show in the final product. But if you collect original art you can sometimes see where the artist might have started to go one direction and then finished in another, or you can see how they composed a scene or set up perspective and so on. But sadly today a lot of comics are drawn digitally and then printed onto the bristol boards in non-photo blue ink. These are called ‘blue lines’. This is sometimes done to save on shipping or in order to keep the original pencils without having them inked over and the pencils destroyed.

What is nice about using bluelines is that there are sometimes original pencils and also original inks and if you can collect both it gives a nice before and after effect if displayed side-by-side. A nice contrast that offers so much for someone to study and enjoy.

Below are some more from this same issue, click on them to see a larger version.

Moby has most of this issues original inks from this issue and some are for sale and some not, please feel free to contact if interested in a page or two.