Our school class visited the Seattle Times on a field trip in the 1960s and I remember them showing us the embossed cardboard "flong" of an Alley Oop cartoon.
Incredible! As a kid, I would have been fascinated by that because flongs are so physically interesting-they look like a sort of 3D comic. (I still am as an adult!)
A few years ago, I came across a few of these flongs while exploring some archives of my local newspaper, and none of knew the term. I had some idea of what they were, but didn't know the details. Thanks for the video and the information.
I had no idea comic printing plates were made with what was basically an early form of photolithography. Very different technique from what is used for computer chips, but the principle seems identical.
Our school class visited the Seattle Times on a field trip in the 1960s and I remember them showing us the embossed cardboard "flong" of an Alley Oop cartoon.
Incredible! As a kid, I would have been fascinated by that because flongs are so physically interesting-they look like a sort of 3D comic. (I still am as an adult!)
A few years ago, I came across a few of these flongs while exploring some archives of my local newspaper, and none of knew the term. I had some idea of what they were, but didn't know the details. Thanks for the video and the information.
I had no idea comic printing plates were made with what was basically an early form of photolithography. Very different technique from what is used for computer chips, but the principle seems identical.
I got my first job in print in 1985 just as this technology was dying.