POSTCARD ART: Eighth Posting

Comics August 19, 2021

Here is another post profiling the design and production of my art postcards. I have been designing and printing these for a few years now…see links to some previous POSTCARD posts below. On this occasion I am looking back at assorted batches. These have been made back since commencement of design and production in 2006…some subsequent batches from the following years are included.

Above and below, some of my art postcards on display. This exhibition accompanied the launch of the first issue of my comic BLOTTING PAPER. (Photo and artwork-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
I treat these postcards both as artworks as well as functional items of communication. They have been made by hand in limited numbers rather than commercially printed…no two cards are identical(see note below). (Photo and artwork-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
In some cases the flip side of the postcards carry a stamped greeting. No two cards are identical due to the variations in the printing…including hand-stamping, hand pressure, strength of ink, and position and alignment of the various letters, icons and details. (Photo and artwork-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
Equipment used for stamping details on the flip side of the postcards. (Photo-©2006 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
Production shot made in the studio with multiple cards at simultaneous printmaking stage…rather unusual for me as I usually only have one design in process at a time. Listening to music while I work, as always…this time Plastic Beach by GORILLAZ...Go Damon! (Photo and artwork-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
Production still from that same session. (Photo and artwork-©2012 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
Two more simultaneous postcard production runs…note the limited number of cards in a batch, the ink and paint materials, and the backing music…Bjork on this occasion. I always work to music and she is currently one of my favourite artists. (Photo and artwork-©2013 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)
Another time and another batch in process…this time with a bowl of fruit! I tend to get hungry during a an art postcard printmaking production run. (Photo and artwork-©2018 Dr. Michael Hill a.k.a. Doctor Comics)

All photos, postcards, postcard art and printmaking by Dr. Michael Hill aka Doctor Comics.

(All text, photos and artwork-©2021 Dr. Michael Hill).

 

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Co-creator and former Director of the Master of Animation, Master of Design, and Visual Communication Design courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, Dr. Michael Hill has a Master's degree in animation plus a Ph.D. in comics studies, prompting his introduction on ABC Radio as “Doctor Comics”. A member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Comic Art, and former member of the Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship and the Advisory Committee of the Q-Collection Comic Book Preservation Project, he has delivered public lectures on Comics, Anime and Manga and held academic directorships in Interdisciplinary Studies, Animation, Design and Visual Communication. Having retired from academia and completing the donation of his collection of research materials on Australian alternative comics to the National Library of Australia, he is now active in the artistic domain, writing, drawing and printmaking, creating art postcards and prints and his own graphic novel: Blotting Paper: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics.

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