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Fine art bristols and illustration boards have been the choice among sequential art professionals and award-winning illustrators for years. These same surfaces are now available in convenient sizes requested by artists in the comic, cartoon and graphic novel industry.</p> <p class=body> <img border="0" src="../../images/advert/strathmore-300series_bristol.jpg" width="115" height="153" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="3">—<b><u>200 Series Bristol</u></b> is an economical, smooth bristol weight board printed with non-reproducible blue lines for comic and Manga applications. Printed surfaces for inner pages are available in sheets or pads, with printed cover surfaces available in 12-sheet packs—all sized 11” x 17”.</p> <p class=body> <img border="0" src="../../images/advert/strathmore-windpower_bristol.jpg" width="115" height="153" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="3">—<b><u>300 Series Bristol</u></b> is offered in a <b>Smooth</b> surface for both traditional and specialty pen and ink tools and in <b>Vellum</b> for pencil, charcoal, sketching sticks, airbrush and pen and ink; both surfaces work well with specialty pens and markers. Sizes: pads—5”x17”, 12”x12” and 11”x17”; and sheet packs—11”x17”.</p> <p class=body> <img border="0" src="../../images/advert/strathmore-500series_bristol.jpg" width="115" height="146" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="3">—<b><u>500 Series Bristol</u></b> is available in <b>Plate Surface</b> with an ultra-smooth finish for detail work using traditional pen and ink tools, specialty pens/markers and airbrush; <b>Semi-Smooth</b>, slightly textured, is suited for pen and ink tools, pencil and specialty pens/markers; and <b>Vellum Surface</b> has a toothy finish excellent for <img border="0" src="../../images/advert/strathmore-500series_illustrationboard.jpg" width="115" height="150" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="3">graphite/colored pencil, sketching sticks and specialty pens/markers and is also very good for charcoal, pen/ink, airbrush and light washes. Pads and sheet packs are 11”x17”.</p> <p class=body>—<b><u>500 Series Illustration Board for Wet Media</u></b> is of professional quality and designed to accept all illustration media, with a strong durable vellum finish for traditional drawing techniques. It’s internally sized to accept wet media and can be used for light washes up to wet-on-wet applications. Heavyweight sheets are available in 15”x22” and 22”x30”.</p> <p class=body>See your retailer and visit <a target="_blank" href="http://www.strathmoreartist.com/">www.strathmoreartist.com</a>.</p> <p class=body><b><u>Artograph - New Chief Operations Officer </u></b></p> <p class=body><b>Artograph, Inc.</b>, a manufacturing company of equipment for the Arts and Craft industry in Minneapolis, MN, has announced the addition of <b>John Davis</b> as the new COO. 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