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JLA: The Silver Age Omnibus 1 cover (colour test, 2015)

Artist: Michael Cho (All)

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JLA: The Silver Age Omnibus 1 cover (colour test, 2015) Comic Art

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Title:	JLA: The Silver Age Omnibus 1 cover (colour test, 2015)
Artist:	Michael Cho (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Prelim
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	744
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Comments:	8
Added to Site:	9/18/2023
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After the passing of Darwyn Cooke, DC asked Michael Cho to provide covers for the JLA Silver Age omnibuses. He accepted with some trepidation, knowing that his classic style tended to draw Cooke comparisons already, and Cooke was strongly associated with JLA due to his well-received story The New Frontier.

This 7"x6.5" image, entirely original, was produced to experiment with colors. Cho is well known for his dramatic use of limited color palettes, often sticking to a single accent color on a black and white image. This time he opted for three colors and wanted to see how they played together. Note that he used the British spelling "colour."

Unfortunately, my scanner gets confused by strong red images and tends to make other areas of the image inappropriately red-shifted -- in this case, the yellow of the sky and Batman's belt. I compensated in Photoshop, but this made the red more orange than it really is. Compromises! See the additional image for a photo showing the true colors more accurately. If anyone else has better Photo-Fu than me and wants to give it a go, let me know.

I have the consolation of knowing that Cho's published cover (which was colored digitally, I believe) uses different shades of yellow and red anyway; see the additional images. Which color palette do you prefer?

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Alex Johnson
Member Since 2006
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1 - Posted on 9/18/2023

Terrific! Did Michael color it himself after submitting the line drawing?

R Berman
Member Since 2018

Posted on 9/18/2023

Alex Johnson wrote:

Terrific! Did Michael color it himself after submitting the line drawing?

If I understood him correctly, he submitted a different drawing very similar to this one, but black and white, which was then colored digitally.

Duke Fleed aka #1 Groo Fan
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 9/18/2023

A fun piece! Great to see the creative process at work here..congrats!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 9/18/2023

Cho's colors look brighter than the published and give off a more fun team dynamic in an age of smiling heroes.

Rick W
Member Since 2017

1 - Posted on 9/19/2023

Far prefer the Cho colors. Cool piece!

Amir E
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 9/19/2023

Love the energy of this piece!

Will K
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 9/21/2023

Cho makes these pieces look so simple but I'm sure he thinks a lot about how to use those few colors.

Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 3/2/2024

Deceptively simple art for not-so-simple times

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