Funny Papers: Cold War Edition
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Learn MoreIn 1950s and 1960s East Germany, the state regulated comic magazines like Mosaik to keep out Western influence. Readers got stories about science and history, printed on cheap domestic newsprint.
Christopher Sperandio made 17 aged newsprint textures based on the comics of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik. The number honors June 17, 1953. That day, a strike by East Berlin construction workers grew into a nationwide uprising against Soviet-backed rule. Soviet troops crushed it. West Germany kept June 17 as a national holiday until the country reunited in 1990.
Each paper is a layered Photoshop file. Put your linework above the paper, set it to Multiply, and adjust the effect layers.
- 17 old newsprint textures in warm tones, from pale cream to deep tobacco brown.
- Two effect layers sit above the paper on every file: Texture and Ink Effects. Turn them up for more wear or switch them off for clean paper.
- 2850 x 4350 pixels at 300 DPI, about 9.5 x 14.5 inches, large enough for print.
- Pairs with the first Funny Papers pack and with Impaled for comic titles.
- 17 layered paper texture files (PSD)
- Made for Adobe Photoshop