Leading off, above, is the first page of the Artisan Edition, followed below by the Table of Contents. Christie Scheele colored six of the seven issues, with Mazzuchelli himself on one. Although remastered, I do hope they provide the impact of the story's published colors. For comparison's sake, I've also included color panels.

That Mazzuchelli could pull off his vision - and it was a vision - is amazing (at least to this reader).Īs we commence, I've chosen some interesting panels and pages from the Artisan Edition. Suffice it to say that printing in the mid-1980s was a bit more primitive than color separations allowed by current computerized tech. Although I come from a family of printers, there were some parts of the process that I didn't fully comprehend. There are also several pages crafted of vellum, which I'll discuss a bit later. I don't believe it's as heavy or the same texture as original art board - which is the composition of pages in your standard Artist Edition - but it's nice. The book clocks in at a thick 9'x12' (approximately), and is published on heavy stock. I was not fortunate enough to get my mitts on the Artist Edition when it was published a few years ago, but I am eternally thankful to the original art gods that IDW chose this book to reissue in the somewhat-smaller-and-much-more-affordable format. My focus today is IDW's recently released paperback David Mazzuchelli's Daredevil Born Again Artisan Edition.

In putting together today's post, I found that the photographing (the book is too large for my scanner), scanning (of the reprinted story), and cropping took quite a long time - I kept stopping and reading on each sample! So if you've never read it, I'd encourage you to find a copy of the trade, or pay for the individual issues ( Daredevil #s 227-233) online. I am not going to review the 'Born Again' storyline, although I'd love to converse with any and all concerning just how awesome a read it is. And today's fare, coincidentally (or not) also by Frank Miller, is another. Notably, Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns would be one.

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