Henk Kuijpers - 1 Published artwork - Franka - 2x inkleuring + zwart-film in kader - Vlucht van Atlantis - 1992

2× coloring + black-film in frame. The Flight of Atlantis.

Two consecutive pages from The Flight of Atlantis (1992) presented as a blue copy with black-and-white film, matted together: a very tight graphic effect! This is how comics were colored up to around 2000; with watercolour a photographic reproduction of the original drawing was colored, and then that separate black-and-white film was laid over it quite precisely, of course. Afterward came the current digital method. There are now no necessary independent colorings: you can at most print the digital version. If you see this, it’s a pity. Digitally it has many advantages, but this intermediate phase, which was necessary at the time, is simply beautiful in itself.

The Flight of Atlantis pages 8 and 9 in a passe-partout, 50 by 40 cm, signed.

The winner of this lot also receives, produced for this auction in an edition of 150 unnumbered, a special color print on A4 paper, signed by Henk Kuijpers. The original of this print is also in this auction (see lot 150).