Coloring Samples, Part 2

Continuing from where I left off...

Here's a Herb Trimpe-Don Perlin page from SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #5. This issue was notable for Steve Englehart taking over the book, which had been a chaotic mess up to that point, and looking on it as a challenge to turn it into something worth reading. He did! My challenge here was to do something nice with "underwater" tones.

Here's a page by Frank Robbins & D. Bruce Berry from CAPTAIN AMERICA #191. To some extent, I tend to think Robbins has a "fun" style, though I'm convinced he was totally wrong for doing superheroes.

Another page with Cap (not to mention Giant Man & The Wasp), actually an Iron Man page from TALES OF SUSPENSE #58 by Don Heck & Dick Ayers!

A Jose Gonzalez page from VAMPIRELLA #76!  I guess by now ya'll have got the idea that, like Dick Ayers, I have an aversion to "OVERDONE" color (his term). Photoshop should be a TOOL, not a controlling power. However, I do think airbrush rendering can be done nicely, provided it's kept under control. This page was designed for B&W, so any color added to it by nature should be mostly flat, bordering on pastels.

Something unusual-- an unpublished X-MEN page by Werner Roth & Sam Grainger. I guessed it was intended for issue #58, as that was the month the lead feature was expanded back to full-length and the back-ups were dropped. However, "Citizen X" on his website clued me in that a Beast & Iceman story had been announced for #49, before the decision was made to reunite the group.  More info at his website!

A spectacular Don Heck cover for THE AVENGERS #37 that went unpublished, replaced instead by a dynamic (but UGLY!!) version by Gil Kane.  For the 70's reprint, that in turn was replaced by a new one by Jack Kirby & Dan Adkins (ironic as it was usually the other way around). This had so much detail on it, it proved to be a real challenge to figure out what was what. I'm particularly proud of the result!

An Alan Davis Silver Surfer page from FANTASTIC FOUR: THE END #3. Obviously, this called for more airbrush effects than usual, between the Surfer and the depths of space!

A page from 1993's SILVER SURFER / WARLOCK: RESSURECTION #1 by Jim Starlin.  I've been a fan of his since his CAPTAIN MARVEL run, but I confess, I grabbed this page to color because I wanted to do something with Moondragon in it-- and nobody but Starlin has ever really done her right (for story or art)!

An oldie-but-goodie:  a Matt Baker Tiger Girl page from FIGHT COMICS #50 (June 1947).  This was the sexiest page of his I could find at Heritage Auction.

The Ed Hannigan-Joe Sinnott cover to SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #3 turned out to be a full-fledged "Fantasy" version in addition to a re-coloring job. For more details, see the post devoted to how it was done!

A SUB-MARINER pin-up by Alan Weiss (2004)!

(See Part 3 / Heritage Comics HSQ coloring work)

(See Part 4 for more Coloring Samples of old comics art!)

More as I go!

Artwork (C) Warren Publishing, Red Zone Comics, Marvel Comics, Jack Kirby, DC Comics, Fiction House

Color by Henry R. Kujawa.

      See all my COLORING work:
Rebel 3  (part 1) art by Jeff Toliver
Rebel 3  (part 2) art by Jeff Toliver
American Sentinels pin-ups by various artists
HSQ covers by Jeff Toliver
American Sentinels, Part 2 by Eric Douthitt
American Sentinels, Part 3 by Eric Douthitt
Coloring Samples by various artists
Coloring Samples, Part 2 by various artists
Coloring Samples, Part 3 by various artists (HSQ comics)
Coloring Samples, Part 4 by various artists

     Edgar Allan Poe stories in COLOR:
CAVALEIRO ANDANTE 453 (Sep'60) --
     "THE GOLD BUG" by Fernando Bento
CLASSICOS DE TERROR 1 (1960) --
     "THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO" by Gedeone Malagola
CLASSICOS DE TERROR 8 (1960) --
     "LADY BERENICE" by Flavio Colin
CLASSICOS DE TERROR 9 (1960) --
     "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH" by Manoel Ferreira
     "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM" by Gedeone Malagola
CLASSICOS DE TERROR 12 (1961) --
     "I'M ALIVE!" by Gedeone Malagola
CLASSICOS DE TERROR 14 (1961) --
     "THE BLACK CAT" by Luiz Saidenberg
EERIE 12 (Nov'67) --
     "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH" by Tom Sutton
ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR ? (1967) --
     "NEVERMORE!" by Luis Meri
ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR 3 (1967) --
     "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH" by Nico Rosso
     "MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A BOTTLE" by Osvaldo Talo
ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR 4 (1967) --
     "THE OVAL PORTRAIT" by Osvaldo Talo
     "THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO" by Osvaldo Talo
ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR 5 (1967) --
     "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER" by Osvaldo Talo
ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR 6 (1968) --
     "WILLIAM WILSON" by Osvaldo Talo
     "BERENICE" by Edegar & Ignacio Justo
ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR 7 (1968) --
     "THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR" by Edegar & Ignacio Justo
     "THE TELL-TALE HEART" by Nico Rosso
     "A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM" by Edegar & Ignacio Justo

More coming!!