We always talk about the penciller and sometimes we even talk about the inker, but rarely does the colorist get talked about these days, and it’s a shame because the colorist is as much responsible for the look of a comic book as anyone else. (You also get what you pay for - each issue of Secret Wars cost $0.75 back then) These days, from the pencils to the inks to the colors to the letters to the cover design and art work, comic books are a first class artistic endeavor because that’s what the modern audience expects and demands. Comic books were much more disposable back twenty years ago, and the idea of keeping every issue you ever purchased safely sealed away in mylar wasn’t as pervasive as it is now.
(In fact, let’s thank the Secret Wars colorist for their work - Christie Scheele and Nel Yomtov, thanks!), it’s more to point out the differing philosophies behind comic book production between the early 1980s and today. The purpose of this article isn’t to call out the coloring in Secret Wars as being bad, or to slag off the people who did good work back then. The green glow of the computer monitor on Robin is also a nice touch. The cave wall and the cave paintings have a unique look and that’s all from the colorist. Backgrounds, light sources and shading are where modern day colorists really do their strong work these days and the above page shows that off pretty well.
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