Comic Color Guides - Coloring Comics Before Computers - Tom Luth and Groo the Wanderer

[@SporekArt]

I was fascinated with coloring comic books recently, but I have to admit - I've never heard of Groo the Wanderer and this is the first time i hear about it because of this video. It was recommended by youtube for me. Thank you, I love the style and I want to read it now!

[@GrooTube]

Well, I'm glad that KZbin recommended this video to you. Definitely check out Groo! And maybe watch a couple more of my videos? 😀

[@SporekArt]

@@GrooTube Obviously! I already subscribed :)

[@yobubo]

Seeing the #1 color proof was incredible! Thank you so much to Ryan for sharing it with us. I always marveled at the colors and details in Groo reading it growing up, and I often wondered how laborious that process must have been. I had no idea there were so many steps and how far removed the final product was at times from the originals (or how in some cases it elevated it). Another great video, thorough but left me wanting to see (and know) more about Groo & color separation.

[@GrooTube]

Totally fascinating, isn’t it? I’d love to see people doing the actual work, so I could understand better the tools and skills involved.

[@OneXWatcher]

Hey, thanks! I was more than happy to share my find with Darren and thrilled that he could use it for one of his videos. Marvel/Epic #1 holds a special place in my love for Groo as it was the first issue I found when I was 10 years old. So for me to stumble across this find and get it very cheaply from a seller who didn't know what it was anymore than I did is still hard for me to believe. I still have that original comic I bought when I was 10, as tattered as it is. Just like I'm never letting that go, I'm never letting the color proof for it go either.

[@GrooTube]

It’s a real treasure! Glad it’s in the hands of someone who loves it! Thanks again Ryan!

[@mrwasi99]

This is great! Especially when creating your own comics, it allows you to create throwback colours if you're going for the vintage look in your work.

[@GrooTube]

That’s a great idea!

[@KevBell1701]

What a fantastic video! Now I need to go find a video on "colour separators" to see exactly what they did after receiving the colour guides!

[@GrooTube]

Thanks Kevin! There is surprisingly little information on colour separation out there. But if you find any video of people doing it, I’d LOVE to see it!

[@mayamexicauno4913]

I love the fact that you are using the first generation prismacolor markers and they still work. To any newbie’s back in the days before copics where made. In the 70s 80s all the way to the late 00s you had marker brands such as letraset designer art markers magic markers chartpacks and of course prismacolor but unfortunately due to the toxicity of the xylene that where in the old design markers and letraset markers they where disconnected and replaced with alcohol based inks that we are all familiar with now

[@GrooTube]

That’s fantastic that you noticed that! 😁

[@mayamexicauno4913]

@@GrooTube haha yeah I collect vintage art supplies like the metal design markers letraset Pantone markers and have plenty of prismacolor chartpacks and copic markers. I’m a graffiti artist and illustrator and been doing it since I was a young teenager in the 00s born in the late 80s was a kid in the 90s and a teenager in the 00s

[@GrooTube]

That’s fantastic. Those were my wife’s markers from design school in the 00s 😀

[@Ratboycure]

Dude was just talking to my best friend aboit groo this afternoon. Amazin

[@GrooTube]

Right on!

[@8_Bit]

Nice work with all the animations and stuff! That takes effort :)

[@GrooTube]

Thanks! Without being able to put my finger on the colour guides, I wanted to be sure I was able to show what I was looking at. And with the cover proof that Ryan supplied, I wanted to show how the layers worked together to make the full colour image. 😀

[@andyisbrilliant]

Thanks for this great video. Just a note, about 10m in - I believe R4 would be 75% magenta, R by itself is 100%

[@rufferto5429]

I love color guides! I am fortunate enough to have a few by Tom and one by Gordon Kent.

[@GrooTube]

Amazing! What issues do you have?

[@rufferto5429]

@@GrooTube I have Epic #3, #72, #79, #87, #94, #95, and #110 including the covers, and Pacific #2, Epic #33, #50, #87, #88, And #100 without the cover, but I have the back cover of #100. Tom told me sometimes they sent the cover back to him and sometimes they didn't.

[@reliabletoasters]

Um... that was fascinating!

[@GrooTube]

Did you really think so? Cause I love it! It ended up taking a lot longer than I expected to put together… and I really just glossed over the four colour printing and colour separation. But, yeah, “How it’s Made” is fascinating! 😀

[@reliabletoasters]

@@GrooTube I never really put much thought into it, but it's such an interesting solution to the problem of "How do we make this in colour?"

[@michaelemond7315]

I think I get it. So R2D2 is 25% red and 25% daffodil yellow. And C3PO is 50% cyan, full purple and full orange. Star Wars makes a lot more sense to me now! Thank you! (Why no 75% colours?)

[@GrooTube]

Re: 75% colours. No idea. 🙁

[@andrewhamp2893]

Before 1973, 75% values weren't used because printing tech at the time made muddy mixes. Also, no 25% or 50% Yellow values before 1969 for many comics.

[@GrooTube]

Cool info! Thanks for sharing Andrew!

[@JohnAdams-lg9ww]

What do you mean, slow of mind?

[@GrooTube]

What pirates?

[@donavonreed4107]

Guess what really happened to Tom Luth this May? He died because of the heart attack.