I know I just wrote only a few days ago that the less time we spend on social media, the better. I still stand by it, but I must also admit when people are using them right.
José Villarubia is one of those people.
My first encounter with this gentleman's work was on the pages of the ABC comic book line, written by Alan Moore (who else?).
He is an exeptionally talented artist, photographer and colorist and particularly in this last capacity he has made an incredible contribution to the field with his facebook posts about colors in comics.
I hope he'll manage to organize these into a lecture or an extensive article someday. For the time being, you can enjoy his insights via his Facebook photo album
In many of these posts he also tackles the issue of recoloring older comic books, which is a fascinating subject to me but also criminally neglected.
Well, ok, it's not a crime to ignore the subject, but how come there is a seizable awareness about the importance of preservation and presentation of film and music (with discussions about formats, supports, mastering techniques, accuracy) but almost none about comics?
¡Que viva José! then, who delivered possibly the first serious contribution to the field of comic book coloring studies.
Make sure you read his notes and all the comments, where the discussion gets juicy.
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