The inside story of comic book color
One of the books I colored for Marvel near the end of the color guide era was Warlock. He was the alien member of the New Mutants. This series was written by Weezie Simonson, and drawn by Pascual Ferry, and inked by Don Hillsman & Mark Morales. It was beautiful. I loved coloring that series. Read More …
In the ‘60s comic book color was 64-color big dot flat. It was hand-separated low resolution CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black.) printed on newsprint. It had to be low resolution because the ink would spread as soon as it went on to the cheap newsprint paper comics were printed on at the time. It was Read More …
Akira was a ground-breaking Japanese Manga by Katsuhiro Otomo that stormed the planet in 1988. It was the most significant comic I ever worked on, because it ushered in computer coloring. It changed the way worldwide comic audiences thought about manga, and how color can affect previously black & white art. It began in 1982 Read More …
After the Image Explosion peaked & Olyoptics had several companies spin off to go independent, (I’ll talk about that in a later column…) I scaled back and just did a little computer coloring while I began my long slow learning curve on Photoshop. By this time our old software was obsolete. Photoshop was so different Read More …
Here is a color guide from my first Fantastic Four coloring job. Fantastic Four #13 was the first Marvel comic book I ever bought. Jack Kirby inked by Steve Ditko. (Probably because of the Super Apes…) The Red Ghost and his Super Apes in the mysterious blue area of the moon! And the first Read More …
The inside story of a color in comics… Illustrated examples from my career of the evolution of comic book coloring techniques, and the stories that go along with every job.
