CHAPTER 8 - A word about Colour
This chapter, as its' title says, is purley about colour in comics. Colour in comics allows a person to feel more emotions or associate particular colours with characters. Colour was first introduced into comics that would appear in newspapers. It was there to draw attention from everything else in the paper and for that it cost more money to print. Thus creating a profit for the papers. So was colour introduced for a readers benefit and better understanding of a comic or purely for making money? I believe it was mainly for making money for comics that did not really get a second look in the paper.
(The above image was taken from blogs.ign.com/.../2008/04/17/87043/Controls/)
(The above image was taken from www.geocities.com/batmanmagazine/nftc8.htm)
Lets use the above two pictures as an example. Ok so if you walked into a comic book shop and you were trying to choose between a the coloured comic and the black and white comic what would you choose? Would you go for content or surface value. Most people would first be drawn to the coloured face comic as it attracts your attention at first glance. I suppose it's just up to a reader to decide what they truely wanting from the comic in question.
This chapter has opened my eyes to a comics true value. If i ever read a comic it always had to have colours in it, to me black and white comics did not exist. Shame on me because the comics that i did read were really poorly written and i had seriously wasted money. From now on i will always look at the content of a comic/video/game before judging it and making my decision.
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