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Colorist
In comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black-and-white line art. For most of the 20th century this was done using brushes and dyes which were then used as guides to produce the printing plates. Since the late 20th century it is most often done using digital media, with printing separations produced electronically. Although most American colorists work directly for comics publishers (either as employees or freelancers), there are a few coloring studios which offer their services to publishers. American Color, Olyoptics, Digital Chameleon were the companies notable in this field. History Originally, comics were colored by cutting out films of various densities in the appropriate shapes to be used in producing color-separated printing plates. The typical colorist worked from photocopies of the inked pages, which they colored with special dyes. Dr. Martin's Dyes was a brand notable in this field within the comic strip industry. CMYK codes were written on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordie Bellaire
Jordie Bellaire is an American comic book writer and colorist who lives in Ireland and works for DC, Marvel, Valiant, and Image comic book publishers. She has colored '' Pretty Deadly'', '' The Manhattan Projects'', ''Moon Knight'', '' The Vision'', ''Magneto'', '' Nowhere Men'', '' Hawkeye'', ''Batman'', among other titles. Bellaire is credited with starting the "Comics are for everybody" initiative to make the comic book community more inclusive and compassionate. Colorist Appreciation Day Following a Tumblr post by Bellaire in early 2013, fans declared January 24 to be "Colorist Appreciation Day", in order to celebrate how much the color adds to the artwork of any given comic. In her post, an open letter titled "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more", directed at an unnamed fan convention, she talks about how important the colorist is but how little recognition they get, saying "Colorists are the unknown amazing backup singer that makes every track awesome" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatjana Wood
Tatjana Wood (née Tatjana Weintraub,Tatjana Wood profile Who's Who in American Comic Books, 1928–1999. in , ) is an American artist and . Biography Tatjana's father was |
Josette Baujot
Josette Baujot (17 August 1920 – 13 August 2009) was a Belgian artist and colorist. She is most commonly associated with fellow Belgian comics writer Hergé (Georges Remi) and his ''Adventures of Tintin'' series. Early life She was born Josette Marie Louise Nondonfaz in Spa, Belgium. There she studied drawing and portraiture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège. She married Joseph Baujot in 1944, with whom she moved to Argentina. The couple bought a vineyard there and had a son. Her life changed abruptly when Joseph was shot dead while hunting in 1953. It was reported that he had been shot by members of the French or Belgian resistance who had tracked him down; however Joseph lived long enough to inform police that he had been accidentally shot by his friend. Josette returned to Brussels after his death. She eventually found work at the Hergé Studios. In Brussels she met cartoonist Joseph Loeckx, also known by his nom de plume Jo-El Azara, creator of the character Taka Taka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Hollingsworth
Matt Hollingsworth (born 1968, in California) is an American comic book colorist. Biography Hollingsworth graduated from The Kubert School in 1991 and began getting regular work from Marvel Comics and DC Comics. In 1993, he was hired to the Dark Horse Comics staff as head of the painted art department. After a year, he returned to freelance work and helped launch the award-winning ''Preacher'' from DC's Vertigo imprint. He has worked on many titles for DC/Vertigo, Marvel, and others, including ''Catwoman'', ''Batman'', '' Daredevil'' and ''Alias''. He won an Eisner Award for Best Colorist/Coloring in 1997, for work on several comics including '' Death: The High Cost of Living''. He was nominated in 2004 for ''Catwoman''. In 2006, he provided the colors of the '' Eternals'' book written by Neil Gaiman and pencilled by John Romita, Jr. Hollingsworth signed an exclusive contract with Marvel in April 2010. In 2012, he teamed-up with writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Baron (comics)
David Baron is an American comic book colorist from San Diego. Career Baron began his career at the age of 15, working for the coloring house InColor. He was subsequently hired by Wildstorm FX. After several years there, he left to pursue a freelance career. His work has primarily appeared in books published by WildStorm and DC Comics. Notably, he was the primary colorist on '' The Authority'' during the Mark Millar and Frank Quitely era, spent several years coloring '' JLA'', and has recently colored several issues of DC Comics's weekly series, '' 52''. David Baron was under contract with DC Comics until July 2009. Bibliography *'' Green Arrow and Black Canary'' *''Justice League Elite'' *'' JLA'' *''Team Zero'' *''Batman Confidential'' *'' JLA: Classified'' *'' JSA: Classified'' *''Global Frequency'' #1-11 (with writer Warren Ellis and various artists, 12-issue limited series, Wildstorm, 2002–2004) *'' 52'' *''Countdown A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Oliff
Steve Oliff (born February 20, 1954) is an American comic book artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry since 1978. Biography Oliff broke into professional comics by attending comic book conventions and meeting people. At one convention he met publisher Byron Preiss. Preiss gave Oliff his first major coloring job (on a Shadowjack story in ''The Illustrated Roger Zelazny''). More work with Preiss's publications followed, including a job on a Howard Chaykin graphic novel, which in turn led to Oliff getting his first Marvel Comics' job, coloring Bill Sienkiewicz's first ''Moon Knight'' story in '' The Hulk!'' magazine. From there Oliff went on to color hundreds of titles in a variety of coloring formats. Olyoptics and ''Akira'' His company, Olyoptics, was one of the first to use computers to do color separation. Although other companies at the time were experimenting with computers, Oliff and his crew were the first to blend the color guide artist with the separat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeromy Cox
Jeromy Cox (born October 23, 1970) is an American colorist. He has worked on several notable titles including Detective Comics, Spider-Man, Promethea, Mage, Avengers Academy, DMZ, and Grendel. Biography His coloring career began at WildStorm, and went on to include work for all major comic book companies, including Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and IDW Publishing in addition to coloring several covers for Heavy Metal and work on numerous independent titles. Cox is also a penciller, inker The inker (sometimes credited as the finisher or embellisher) is one of the two line artists in traditional comic book production. The penciller creates a drawing, the inker outlines, interprets, finalizes, retraces this drawing by using a pencil ..., and writer of his own comics, including Zombie Love and Vampyrates. In March 2014, a demonstration DVD of Cox's coloring techniques was released by PhotoshopCAFE. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Jeromy 1970 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Culliford
Janine Culliford ( née Devroye; 29 March 1930 – 5 July 2016) was a Belgian colorist of comic strips. Nine Culliford was the wife of the comic strip creator known as Peyo (the pseudonym of Pierre Culliford, 1928–1992). She colored his illustrations up until his death. She is especially notable for coming up with the idea that the Smurfs ''The Smurfs'' (french: Les Schtroumpfs; nl, De Smurfen) is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. ''The Smurfs'' was first created and int ... should be colored blue. After the death of her husband, she continued to color the comic strips produced by the studio founded by her son Thierry who has been continuing the work of Peyo. She died on 5 July 2016 at the age of 86. The 2017 film '' Smurfs: The Lost Village'' is dedicated to her memory. References 1930 births 2016 deaths Belgian comics artists Place of death missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olyoptics
Steve Oliff (born February 20, 1954) is an American comic book artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry since 1978. Biography Oliff broke into professional comics by attending comic book conventions and meeting people. At one convention he met publisher Byron Preiss. Preiss gave Oliff his first major coloring job (on a Shadowjack story in ''The Illustrated Roger Zelazny''). More work with Preiss's publications followed, including a job on a Howard Chaykin graphic novel, which in turn led to Oliff getting his first Marvel Comics' job, coloring Bill Sienkiewicz's first '' Moon Knight'' story in '' The Hulk!'' magazine. From there Oliff went on to color hundreds of titles in a variety of coloring formats. Olyoptics and ''Akira'' His company, Olyoptics, was one of the first to use computers to do color separation. Although other companies at the time were experimenting with computers, Oliff and his crew were the first to blend the color guide artist with the separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Color Separation
Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). Any natural scene or color photograph can be optically and physiologically dissected into three primary colors, red, green and blue, roughly equal amounts of which give rise to the perception of white, and different proportions of which give rise to the visual sensations of all other colors. The additive combination of any two primary colors in roughly equal proportion gives rise to the perception of a secondary color. For example, red and green yields yellow, red and blue yields magenta (a purple hue), and green and blue yield cyan (a turquoise hue). Only yellow is counter-intuitive. Yellow, cyan and magenta are merely the "basic" secondary colors: unequal mixtures of the primaries give rise to perception of many other colors all of which may be co Modern techniques While there are many techniques for reproducing images in color, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Chameleon
Digital Chameleon was a comic book coloring and inking studio based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They have countless credits for a variety of publishers, and are attributed with being the first studio to make the use of the computer software program Adobe Photoshop widespread in the comics' industry.Hollingsworth, Matt"Color Guides," MattHollingsworth.net. Accessed Apr. 6, 2009. In addition to their work in the comics field, Digital Chameleon also colored animation, CD covers, posters, magazines, and advertisements. Digital Chameleon closed its doors in 2003. History The company was formed in 1991, by Christopher Chuckry (president), and Lovern Kindzierski (vice-president, creative director), with partners Ed Beddome, Tim Riddoch and Dick Thomas. Colorists at Digital Chameleon included Kindzierski, Laurie E. Smith, George Freeman, Bernie Mireault, and Carla Feeney. Partner Beddome left the company in 1993, and co-founder Chuckry left the company in 1996. After Chuckry's dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Freeman (comics)
George Freeman (born May 27, 1951 in Selkirk, Manitoba) is a Canadian comic book penciller, inker, and colorist. Freeman's comic-book illustrating career began with Richard Comely’s independent Canadian publication, ''Captain Canuck''. He subsequently worked on several superhero comics, such as DC Comics' ''Green Lantern'' and ''Aquaman'', and Marvel Comics' ''Jack of Hearts'', and '' The Avengers''. He drew a story in ''Batman Annual'' #11, written by Alan Moore. In addition, he was one of several rotating artists on the short-lived horror comic anthology ''Wasteland'' by writer and actor Del Close and writer John Ostrander. Freeman alternated with artists Don Simpson, William Messner-Loebs, and David Lloyd on drawing one of the three horror stories in each issue, the fourth artist providing the cover. Freeman also illustrated the short comic Blizzard House, written by Nicholas Burns and published in the Arctic Comics anthology in 2016. In 1991, Freeman co-founded Digital Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
