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Black, white and gray with Roy Crane
Posts like these may not be for everyone, but if you're interested in art technique and storytelling, Roy Crane was a master. He wrote and drew an amazing strip blending screwball comedy and high adventure, WASH TUBBS (later titled CAPTAIN EASY). Like Milton Caniff, he gave his famous strip to an assistant and went to create a new strip, which he would own himself (these newspaper artists were no fools and almost always made much more money than comic book artists). This was BUZ SAWYER. This sample is from 1949. Accompanied by his wife Christy and a local oil company representative, Buz is in Central America trying to forestall a revolution by swiping a load of guns and ammo.
Crane got astonishing results without color. Just black ink on white paper, for the most part. He used Benday and Craftint doubletone paper to get shades of gray, letting him show depth, foreground and background. His style is just cartoony enough to allow the exaggeration needed for newspaper reproduction, realistic enough to be convincing.
Tags: creator: roy crane, era: golden age
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