Without Blackbeard's obsession, the rich history of comic book narrative would likely be lost, at best converted to microfilm, which is not in colour and detestable to study, let alone read for pleasure.
Preserving the originals preserves, to a degree, the original pleasure and beauty of the form. And the technology today allows us to capture the colour of the original panes. But what format do we choose to save these in? One of the virtues of the analogue ink on paper format is that it does not demand special technology to perceive. The mix of chemicals producing the effect may be proprietary but that only affects the producer, not the consumer. Not so modern edocument technology.
So we need, in order to preserve our cultural history and moment, an open technology and open standard that does not discriminate but that makes available to any artist, any person, the archive. Otherwise, we bankrupt our culture.
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