Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login
The John Byrne Forum
Byrne Robotics > The John Byrne Forum
Topic: Q for JB: Shipping Pages Post ReplyPost New Topic
Author
Message
Ted Downum
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 21 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 2371
Posted: 21 August 2018 at 7:22am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Chief: In the days when you sent artwork through the mail to publishers (I assume it's all done digitally nowadays), how did you pack the pages for shipping? Regular envelope, bubble mailer, box, sturdy wooden crate?

I ask because I find myself having to ship some artwork cross-country, and I'm wondering how susceptible it would be to damage in the mail--as opposed to a more expensive option like FedEx. The items in question are roughly 12" x 18", on art board, so more-or-less comic book size, which is what motivates me to ask.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
Back to Top profile | search
 
John Byrne
Avatar
Grumpy Old Guy

Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 132135
Posted: 21 August 2018 at 7:49am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

A few layers of cardboard and some brown paper.
Back to Top profile | search
 
Ted Downum
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 21 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 2371
Posted: 21 August 2018 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Thank you, sir!
Back to Top profile | search
 
Matthew Chartrand
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 17 June 2007
Location: United States
Posts: 1355
Posted: 21 August 2018 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply



 Did the art ever go missing?

Back to Top profile | search
 
John Byrne
Avatar
Grumpy Old Guy

Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 132135
Posted: 21 August 2018 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Not heading south.
Back to Top profile | search
 
Rebecca Jansen
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 12 February 2018
Location: Canada
Posts: 4410
Posted: 21 August 2018 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I handed over all kinds of taped and re-taped assemblages of cardboard with precious original art yet to be printed inside to UPS drivers 'back in the day'... it's amazing though now to think that there was no protective plastic inside, not even the thought of it, but now I think I would want to do that and not just depend on the packing tape to keep things dry in there. I remember printing out forms and taping them inside a baggie to these things too, never seemed to be a problem that they weren't in regulation pockets of some sort. I often used to call the pick-up for the next day when I hadn't quite hit the home stretch on something but then have to power through to meet it.
Back to Top profile | search | www
 
Adam Schulman
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 22 July 2017
Posts: 1717
Posted: 23 August 2018 at 1:25pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

I have to assume that Howard Chaykin was doing AMERICAN FLAGG!! for First Comics in the 1980s, he lived near their office, because there was so much stuff on those pages that sending them through the mail strikes me as a difficult, risky task. 
Back to Top profile | search
 

If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login
If you are not already registered you must first register

  Post ReplyPost New Topic
Printable version Printable version

Forum Jump
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

 Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login