Fiat Mechanical Tints

So, I didn't realize I'd be doing this, but after a weekend spent in large part at the New York Comic Con (NYCC to you pros out there), I've decided I need to open up a new section—I'd call it a column, but that sounds so pretentious when this is my personal blog and I'm the only writer in the bullpen—dedicated to comics and the like. Comic books. Graphic novels. Graphica. "Illiterature" (thanks, Graphica and Education conference!). Whatever the hell they are.

Anyway, so much of interest happened this weekend that I've come home with at least three posts I want to write, and I'm going to get right on those. But I felt they needed some space of their own here, a little niche they could fit into, so here it is. I've lived with and loved comic books as long as I've lived with video games, and though I'm sure there are some who'd cringe to hear me say this, the two have played similarly huge roles in shaping me. So, out of deference to the other of my two ghettoized medium loves, I thought I'd throw this new section up, stick the above graphic at the beginning of every pertinent entry, and . . . yeah. Pretty much that.

Do you want to know what a "mechanical tint" is? It isn't something you'll find a picture of on the internet, at least not by that name. At least not where Google Image Search can find it. But a mechanical tint is the system of stripes, dots, jaggedy lines, or whatever that printers used to use to represent tones between straight black and straight white in, e.g., newspaper illustrations. Since I couldn't find any mechanical tints on the internets, I went for a halftone with the Mechanical Tints logo over it. So there's that. Anyway. Aren't you glad you read this?