Shatter (1st Series)

    (First, 1985)
™ and ©1985 First Comics, Inc.

Shatter was the first full-length comic created entirely on computer. Artist Mike Saenz used an early Macintosh to draw, letter, script, and even advertise this series in 1985. Only the coloring was done by hand. It was a startling and very appropriate choice of media for this futuristic crime drama.

Breathtakingly forward-looking in its technology at the time, Shatter now stands as a marker of how far technology has moved in just a few years. By the mid-1990s, computers had become commonplace for comic production work. To many, it seemed that the traditional letterer would be made all-but-extinct by computerized fontography. Computer coloring and digital effects are now standard on most Marvel titles. Ironically, it is still a comic’s actual drawing—the area Saenz most stressed in Shatter—that is still done almost exclusively by hand today.
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#1

June, 1985
Cover Price: $1.75
11 copies available from $0.88 		Peter B. GillisMike Saenz
#1 - 2nd printing

December, 1985
Cover Price: $1.75
1 copy available for $9.99 		Peter B. GillisMike Saenz