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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by RalphNader2028@reddthat.com to c/Cartoons@reddthat.com

Shatter first appeared in the March 1985 issue (#12) of computer magazine Big K and was described as "the world's first comics series entirely drawn on a computer."

I was a lowly graphic designer for a healthcare brochure printing firm in San Francisco (my first professional job) when this came out and I bought the comics "live" as they came out. I still have these comics somewhere in a box around here. The story wasn't amazing, sort of a Blade Runner knock off, but I remember just being amazed that it was all drawn on a computer.

It's all common place now, but back then, the idea of a comic being drawn on the computer was mind-blowing. Which is why they even put that fact on the cover. lol

And as anti-tech as Lemmy is (which is ironic to me), you all would have hated it, I'm sure. "What? No paper!? No pencils!? No blood dripping from the artist's head onto the paper?! It's not real art!" lol

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[-] RalphNader2028@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The artist who drew the work using a computer back then, was Mike Saenz. He also created the cover for Chicago punk band Naked Raygun's first album Throb Throb, which I think looks way cooler:

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