Craftint Paper is Poison!

 

Poison!

I've written before about how much I enjoyed drawing on craftint paper (also known as duo-shade paper). The paper has a shading pattern printed on it in unreproducible blue which becomes visible when a developing chemical is brushed onto the paper. Here is another look at one of my 1980s drawings that was on craftint paper:

Up at the top and down below are two panels from a page from 1990's The Huntress #18 by Joe Staton and Bob Smith drawn on craftint paper. I knew that (unfortunately) craftint paper is no longer produced, but I had heard since about 2010 that the reason for its decline was that the same effects could be easily achieved using paint programs on computers.

But Marcus Wai (a commenter to the posting of the Huntress page) pointed out that the cancellation of craftint came before the computer capability and in fact was because touching the paper that had been treated with the developing chemical had the capability to make people sick. Here is the posting page if you'd like to see the full Huntress page and the comments for yourself.

Craftint paper is poison!