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The colorist for American Flagg! — and in real life Howard Chaykin's wife — explains how she came to the job when Lynn Varley could not handle both Ronin and Flagg! simultaneously, bringing a background in textile design and color theory rather than comics. She describes the severe constraints of the four-color printing process (only 63 color combinations from three primaries at three strengths each) and the additional frustration of having hand separations introduce errors. She is currently coloring the American Flagg! graphic novel using a full-color laser process, which she finds far more expressive, and discusses her deliberate use of antiseptic pastels for the Plex mall environment to convey its dehumanizing sterility.