COMIC BOOK CHOSEN FORMAT

So today I made some pretty important decisions on the format. Throughout all these posts I've been looking at format of the books I've bought and the style of format from my scans. Whilst sourcing these books I came across a particular book that caught my eye. It's nothing overly special, it's just a hardback edition of a HellBoy comic but it's made by Dark Horse Books. Had a look a lot of their hardbacks and they're all uniformly printed to this really cool matt finish. I'm aiming to professionally print my art book so I'll have to get some discussion with a printing firm to closely match the material as it's what really makes the finish.

As you turn the page you see a matt sheet which is rough in comparison to the cover and printed on a much lower quality stock but still looks the part. Further into the book the pages are semi-gloss which is proving great contrast and really holding those blacks and dark shades well.