OUGD504: Print Lecture - Nobrow Studio

by Roxxie Blackham on Friday, 22 November 2013

▴ Exhibitions and private views in their studio as part of promotion and marketing strategy

▴ Event for launch of mag at Jaguar Shoes Bar in Shoreditch
   - Nobrow 2 mag
   - Nobrow 6

▴ Book fairs and comics festivals

▴ First book they published, not in small press, using offset lithography was Nobrow Magazine
   - Covers were designed by Stuart Volakovich
   - Limited colour pallet ties all the illustrator's work together and makes a curated object
   - First 5 were limited edition, only printed 3000 of them
   - Only 2400 copies of Nobrow 3
   - Nobrow 6 consisted of half comics, half illustrations

▴ Nobrow Press - smaller story books
   - Opportunity for smaller projects
   - Illustrators to produce comic books was unusual
   - Received criticism for not using cartoon artists
   - Bjorn Rune Lie & co - 'The Wolf's Whistle'

▴ 'Rise and Fall'
   - Told they couldn't sell in book shop as it didn't have a spine (a staple bound book that is placed spine facing out basically becomes invisible in the book shop - needs to have the cover facing out)

▴ 'Hildafolk' by Luke Pearson
   - Hilda and The Midnight Giant - hard back, cloth spine
   - Hild and The Bird Parade
   - Produced in co-edition so that it can be sold to publishers in other countries
   - Sold to Casterman - the publishers of Tintin

▴ The more copies sold at the same time makes printing prices cheaper

▴ 10 colour offset lithographic press

▴ Always used spot colours - pantone colours
   - This means that you will print the correct colours

▴ Chromatography - black os made up of a mixture of colours

▴ German illustrator
   - Paints onto drafting film with screen block - maroon colours
   - Paints each CMYK colour separation individually
   - Use of CMY, with K being dark blue instead of black

▴ Ben Newman

▴ Printed onto tape for holding packaging together

▴ Worked with the illustrator for Adventure Time on 'Forming' book

▴ Flying Eye Books
   - Imprint for children's books

▴ ELCAF - East London Comics and Arts Festival

▴ 'Thought Bubble Arts Festival' tomorrow in Leeds

▴ Office in New York

▴ 14th June - ELCAF next year

▴ Andrew Rae - illustrator
   - 'Moonhead'

▴ John McNaught - cover of Nobrow 9

▴ Angrelemme comics festival

62 Great Eastern Street, EC21 3QR
www.nobrow.net

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