Back in 1985, Mike Gold, president of First Comics said: “The world really is moving faster than a speeding bullet, and all communications media are changing every day. Even comics: better paper, better colour, better inks, improved reproduction techniques... the Superman of 1938 would hardly recognise today’s books.”
But in the past 45 years, the methods of producing the stories themselves haven’t changed very much. Better brushes and a wider range of photographic effects ... all in all, comics stories are produced in much the same manner Joe Shuster used to draw those first Superman stories. As R. Crumb (American comic book artist and social satirist who created Fritz The Cat and Mr Natural) once said: “It’s all just lines on paper.”
