With the Opening of His New Film about Alien Contact...
by Stephen Spielberg, we thought it only appropriate to "bookend" it with his first alien contact film from almost a half-century ago...
Tomorrow: Sighting!
Written by Archie Goodwin, penciled by Walt Simonson, and inked by Klaus Janson, this adaptation of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Marvel Comics Super Special #3 (1978) was a unique experience for the comic creatives!
With no actual danger/threat and little violent "action", but lots of spectacle involving deliberately-nebulous spacecraft with few visual details, Simonson and Janson had to figure out how to visualize alien vehicles that appeared to be made of...light!
In the 1970s, there was no computer color to enhance artwork and do the tricks we're so used to seeing today!
But colorist Marie Severin was more than up to the challenge, producing some of the best work of her career, aided by the fact this was printed as a slick-stock magazine, not a newsprint comic, and that the people who did the hand-cut color separations were given extra time to follow her color guides exactly!
(A luxury rarely-afforded with regular comic books!)
The end result you're seeing is a triumph of artistic skill by every participant over near-impossible to achieve (at the time) graphic requirements!
In the 1970s, there was no computer color to enhance artwork and do the tricks we're so used to seeing today!
But colorist Marie Severin was more than up to the challenge, producing some of the best work of her career, aided by the fact this was printed as a slick-stock magazine, not a newsprint comic, and that the people who did the hand-cut color separations were given extra time to follow her color guides exactly!
(A luxury rarely-afforded with regular comic books!)
The end result you're seeing is a triumph of artistic skill by every participant over near-impossible to achieve (at the time) graphic requirements!
Sit back and enjoy the ride!
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