AKIRA: Chapter 0

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 …

THE LAST DAYS OF COLOR GUIDES

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 …

FANTASTIC FOUR AT LAST

  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 …