Electronics-Themed Comics
November 1946 Radio-Craft

November 1946 Radio-Craft [Table of Contents] Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Craft, published 1929 - 1953. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

Here are a couple more of the much-liked "Radio Term Illustrated" comics, these appearing in the November 1947 issue of Radio-Craft magazine. I probably spend way more time on colorizing these comics than I should. You might think it's easy to just fill in areas with color, but most of the comics are drawn in a manner where outlines of larger objects do not terminate against another line. Being able to use a fill tool requires sealing off the area first. Then there's the case of where an area uses a series of closely spaced lines or cross-hatches. An area fill tool doesn't work well there, either, so the best way I've found is to outline the area with a Bezier curve tool and copy / paste it over itself so it is a separate object, then use a color transform tool to shift the entire area to the chosen color. Even with all that work, the comics rarely turn out the way I'd like them to.

Electronics-Themed Comics

Radio Term Illustrated
"A Good Conductor"
Page 32

Radio Term Illustrated
"Plate Supply"
Suggested by: Gus Britzman, Houston, Mo.
Page 76

Posted April 19, 2022