Style Guide Archives

Comic book creator Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, who recently returned to DC Comics to draw Superman and Batman, in his seventies, was the designer behind the 1980s DC Comics style guide, used as a template for comic book creators on how to draw their biggest characters, as well as for licensors. And comic book fan Mike Furth[...]

But back in the early 80s a company could put out a style guide on one sheet for all of their colorist to use… amazing eh? Here is the DC Comics style guide from back in 1982. With modern comic book coloring, there is almost no limit to the number of color variations that artist can[...]