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前陣子有朋友問我，美漫的大小大概多大呀？我想因為亞洲比較不流行很多人應該都沒實際接觸過，所以我拍了張比對讓大家知道一下。它實際的大小約26 cm x 17 cm。

大家知道美漫的印刷跟紙張的厚度在80年代末到現在其實是有演變的哦! 它在1998年前後曾有過用印刷的油墨跟蠟把它加強硬度，其實那一陣子在很多雜誌上也看到過，用那樣的方式有個缺點會出現在看漫畫用檯燈看時會有反光，紙也因為太薄的關係容易不小心弄破。那時個人不是很喜歡那樣的方式因為沒有實際的紙感，幸好最後DC 跟 Marvel 把紙的厚度跟印刷方式改回來了。

美漫的印刷精美度也跟這時間跟技術的進步變得更好看線條筆劃也更清楚，附圖是1990年2月10日出版的X戰警漫畫，有我個人從小就很喜歡的韓裔美國人Jim Lee 執筆的，從照片可以看出以前的印刷技術只能提供少數的顏色跟比較不明顯的線條。

Sometimes ago one of my friend in Asia asked me, what is the size of an American Comic? I guess since it is not popular in Asia which shelf is mostly Manga from Japan, a lot of people here probably never even actually hold one in their hands before. So I took a shot of comparison photo with a thing that’s familiar with everyone. Its actual size is about 26 cm x 17 cm.

The printing of American comics evolved with progression of time as the printing in the late and early 90’s aren’t vivid and rich with colors. During late 97 to 98 I noticed that they have skim down the thickness of paper and painted with gloss that felt like a wax is all over the paper this style of printing made reading difficult as it will reflect light in certain angle, it was popular application in magazine at that time too. But thank God that DC and Marvel made printing style changes after 1999.

Attached are photos of Uncanny X-Men penciled by my favorite artist “Jim Lee” you can see how printing has progressed and the way comic books looks so different now with so much more richness in colors and clarity.