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Matthew Dow Smith
@matthewdowsmith.bsky.social
Writer, artist, comic book creator. DC's Misfits of Magic (May 2025), Amelia Shadows, The October Girl, and many others. Literary agent: Moe Ferrara at Bookends Literary.
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Tuesday Tip 9/12

If there's something you know you want to be a "color hold" a line you want to be a color instead of black), save your colorist a ton of work and hassle and put it on a separate layer so they can just grab it and change the color.
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I miss that period in the mid-80s when Guice and Giffen were going nuts with--were they called "surprints"?. The hologram-as-nonblack-lines thing. The printing tech wasn't quite there, but the idea was great!

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Matthew Dow Smith
@matthewdowsmith.bsky.social
Writer, artist, comic book creator. DC's Misfits of Magic (May 2025), Amelia Shadows, The October Girl, and many others. Literary agent: Moe Ferrara at Bookends Literary.
2.5k followers1.1k following4k posts