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   fine jams and jellies since 1982 on March 7, 2016 at 8:53 am

   Oxygen? Who needs it! Food and shelter? Bah! Pedestrian! The Law of Thermodynamics? Please!

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     John on March 8, 2016 at 11:28 am

     Apparently, all those are unnecessary. The Beatles were right: All you need is love!

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   Dave Dell on March 7, 2016 at 5:34 pm

   Cinderella Love #1? Googled Cinderella Love Comic and got Cinderella from Fabletown With Love:
   http://www.vertigocomics.com/comics/cinderella-from-fabletown-with-love-2010/cinderella-from-fabletown-with-love-1

   Very interesting.

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     John on March 8, 2016 at 11:27 am

     Interesting indeed, but not the Cinderella Love I was talking about. There were actually several different Cinderella Love series put out by different comic book companies in the mid-20th Century.

     Here’s the one I was referring to:

     http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2785

     I’m not sure if you’ll need to register with the site to see the images, but you can read whole issues of Cinderella Love and thousands of other comic books there!

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   Dick on March 8, 2016 at 10:10 am

   The detail in some of the old versions is amazing: The bedstead, the view of the city out of the window, the car with the tire on the back, I wonder whether this was done to enhance the sense of reader involvement in those days of a less complicated communications reality.

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     John on March 8, 2016 at 11:21 am

     Dick, that sort of detail (sometimes more, sometimes less) is fairly common in romance comics. After all, the comics were telling stories and they had to give readers context for those stories. In the Last Kiss art that I did for many years, we’d mostly keep that background detail.

     In the newer art Last Kiss art—particularly the art that’s based on public domain art and has to be completely redrawn—the backgrounds are mostly eliminated.

     There are two reasons for that. One is that it’s much faster for the artist—and therefore less expensive for me. The other is I’ve found that it really makes the people in the images stand out and the images are cleaner and more vivid.

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       Dick on March 10, 2016 at 3:26 am

       John, why does art in the public domain have to be completely redrawn?

       I thought public domain (out of copyright or other protection) images or literary products could be used with no royalties or fees.

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         John on March 10, 2016 at 5:30 am

         Dick, technically it doesn’t. And I have been thinking of using some public domain art as is in order to save money and time

         However, getting the public domain art redrawn means that I get a much cleaner look to the art. This does aid in—I hope—reader enjoyment.

         Plus, when the art’s redrawn and sufficiently changed, the comic art becomes a new work and is no longer in the public domain.

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