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[Ray Zone <r3dzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
11-2-98

RAY ZONE CREATES COLOR 3-D FOR D.C. COMICS

        Ray Zone, 3-D artist/writer and publisher of 3-D Comics, recently
completed work on a four issue run of color 3-D comic books for DC Comics.
These were the first DC 3-D comics to be produced entirely in 4-color and
3-D.
        The four color 3-D titles featuring DC's most popular superheroes
were released in successive weeks in October.   The first book in the
series, The DC Legends 3-D Pin-up Gallery, was created expressly for 3-D
and featured full-page images of the comic company's top characters.  DC
Legends was followed by Superman 3-D, Green Lantern 3-D and, most recently,
Batman 3-D with a Halloween tie-in featuring the character of The Scarecrow.
        Each of the books include bound-in custom DC 3-D glasses
manufactured by Zone for use with the DC 3-D titles.
        For fifteen years, through his company The 3-D Zone, Ray Zone has
been converting flat art to the red/blue form of 3-D imaging known as the
anaglyph.  In recent years, Zone has been working entirely from digital
files provided by the client.  In addition to 3-D conversion of "flat" art,
Zone provides 3-D prepress, printing and 3-D glasses manufacturing.
          Though the red/blue anaglyph uses the two primary colors to
create the dimensional effect, it is possible to create a full color 3-D
image with the process.  Most of the full color anaglyphs Zone has produced
prior to the DC 3-D comics have been for advertising purposes with such
clients as SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, American Movie Classics and
Nissan Automotive most recently.  For Nissan, Zone converted a flat 4-color
image of the Pathfinder automobile to color 3-D for inclusion as a 3-D
advertisement in the August 1998 "Mars 3-D" issue of National Geographic.
        To produce the color 3-D conversions for the DC 3-D comics, Zone
worked from the completed 4-color digital files provided to him by the
publisher.  Using Adobe Photoshop, Zone created the 3-D imagery, color
proofed the finished art on an Epson Stylus printer and returned the 3-D
digital files to DC.   The files were digitally proofed by Quebecor
Printing of Canada who then printed and bound the comics along with the
custom 3-D glasses inserted into each book.
        For the Superman, Green Lantern and Batman 3-D titles, editors and
writers at DC Comics in New York created ingenious narrative devices in
which the color
3-D is incorporated into conventional "flat" 4-color storylines.  All four
3-D titles are rapidly selling through in the comic book marketplace.
        Since 1983, Ray Zone has produced or published over 130 3-D comic
books. The Green Lantern and Batman 3-D issues feature an interview with
Zone discussing the history of 3-D comics and the genesis of the color 3-D
process

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