NY Times gets sloppy with their graphics

When I picked up the Sunday NY Times this morning...

...I was disappointed that the opening page of the Travel section didn't look like the version seen here on their website.

Instead, the print version looked like there was no Black ink at all in the illustration!

No contrast in the darker areas, and the blue lettering all but merged into the background!

Pick up a copy to see for yourself.

(I took a digital picture of the front page to show for comparison, but any attempt to color-correct for the true value of the newsprint itself actually improved the image beyond the printed version!)

That sort of thing tends to occur when "webheads" (as I call web-only designers) fail to even do a simple color proof to check how their "optimized for web" RGB images will look as CMYK printed pieces.

It's the sort of sloppiness that's becoming way too common these days.

I e-mailed the NY Times with my concerns, and am awaiting a response.

The SECRET Marvel Comics WebPage!

For several years beginning in 2005, Corbis (a photo agency owned by Bill Gates) handled licensing Marvel Comics images for editorial and advertising use.
It apparently didn't work out too well, since the partnership no longer exists, nor does the link (which was still operational until late 2009).
Design Commission, the company who designed the really kool web interface for the partnership's pages had a functioning mockup of the Corbis/Marvel webpages on their corporate website for several years.
"Corbis selected Design Commission to create a unique experience using Flash and XML, where users could explore a wide, yet deep, snapshot of Marvel’s archive in a fluid and engaging environment."
Unfortunately, it was recently removed, and their work on the Corbis/Marvel pages has been reduced to a mere footnote in the company's history.

It's now a lost piece of Marvel Comics history!

Is Toonopedia Gone?

One of the Net's best resources for comics-related info is...gone?

...a really-cool site loaded with info and pix on comic books, comic strips, animation, and almost everything related, is no longer at www.toonopedia.com!

We hope Don Markstein is OK and that this is just a temporary glitch.
Here's an interesting item...
I went to the Wayback Machine, hoping to see if they'd archived the site (as they do with so many others), and the following message came up...
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
Weird, eh?