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

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  • Not only do I love the Artwork of Sergio Aragonés, but I have come to really love the colour work that Tom Luth (and some of the others who have stepped in when needed) brings to my favourite Groo the Wanderer comics.
    I have managed to collect (images) of several Groo the Wanderer Color Guides and friend of Groo Tube, Ryan Simmons, has sent some spectacular photos of the cover colour separations for Epic Groo #1. I briefly explore how colour in the comics works and then spend a bunch of time looking at the wonderful colour guides of Tom Luth and compare them to the final printed comics.
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    Videos about Groo the Wanderer from Mad Magazine Writer and Cartoonist Sergio Aragonés. Comic Book artist Mark Evanier, Stan Sakai (who makes Usagi Yojimbo comics) and Tom Luth who is the colorist of the comics. Marvel comics used to publish Groo the Wanderer under the Epic Comics brand for artist owned comics. Before that Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics published Groo the Wanderer. After Marvel Comics, Groo went to Image Comics for a year and for the longest time, Groo is published by Dark Horse Comics. Rufferto is Groo's Dog, Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan of the Apes have had crossover comics with Groo too.
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  • @SporekArt
    @SporekArt 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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
      @GrooTube  27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

    • @SporekArt
      @SporekArt 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@GrooTube Obviously! I already subscribed :)

  • @yobubo
    @yobubo ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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
      @GrooTube  ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @OneXWatcher ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @GrooTube  ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Ratboycure
    @Ratboycure 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @GrooTube
      @GrooTube  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Right on!

  • @mrwasi99
    @mrwasi99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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
      @GrooTube  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s a great idea!

  • @8_Bit
    @8_Bit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @GrooTube
      @GrooTube  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
    @andyisbrilliant 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @mayamexicauno4913
    @mayamexicauno4913 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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
      @GrooTube  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s fantastic that you noticed that! 😁

    • @mayamexicauno4913
      @mayamexicauno4913 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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
      @GrooTube  ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @KevBell1701
    @KevBell1701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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
      @GrooTube  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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!

  • @rufferto5429
    @rufferto5429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @GrooTube
      @GrooTube  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amazing! What issues do you have?

    • @rufferto5429
      @rufferto5429 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
    @reliabletoasters 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Um... that was fascinating!

    • @GrooTube
      @GrooTube  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @reliabletoasters 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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
    @michaelemond7315 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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
      @GrooTube  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Re: 75% colours. No idea. 🙁

    • @andrewhamp2893
      @andrewhamp2893 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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
      @GrooTube  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cool info! Thanks for sharing Andrew!

  • @JohnAdams-lg9ww
    @JohnAdams-lg9ww 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What do you mean, slow of mind?

    • @GrooTube
      @GrooTube  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What pirates?

  • @donavonreed4107
    @donavonreed4107 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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