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Matt Wagner's Batman Vs Grendel Color Original

Artists: Tom Ziuko (Colorist) , Matt Wagner (Writer)

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Matt Wagner's Batman Vs Grendel Color Original Comic Art

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Artwork Details

Title:	Matt Wagner's Batman Vs Grendel Color Original
Artist:	Tom Ziuko (Colorist)
Artist:	Matt Wagner (Writer)
Media Type:	Paint - Watercolor
Art Type:	Color Guide
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,709
Likes on CAF:	8 9
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	8/19/2014
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Description

The main reason I bid on this was that it was a Hero Initiative auction, otherwise, as cool as this looked, I may have let it go. Another smaller reason I bid on this was that, a while ago, I traded a nice Matt Wagner original page from the first Batman/Grendel crossover and, though I've looked for another to replace it, pages from those two books rarely show up, and really nice pages show up even less, so this was a cheap alternative.

As for what this is, according to Tom Ziuko, a colorist at DC Comics back in the 1980's, it is not a color guide, but a hand-colored promotional display done with Dr. Martin's dyes that was used to publicize the comic at conventions. On the auction site, he wrote,"Back in the 1980s, before the age of scanners and the world wide web, DC Comics reps used to appear at comic book conventions and give slideshow presentations as promotional tools to garner interest in upcoming books and projects that were going to be published. I, along with a few other freelance colorists, was given high quality stats of selected artwork, mounted on matte paper, to be colored and/or airbrushed; these pages were then photographed and shown along with a spoken narration at said conventions."

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Last Login:	September 2025
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Suat Tong Ng
Member Since 2009

Posted on 8/20/2014

How big is the art? Is it the size of the OA?

Timothy Finney
Member Since 2006

Posted on 8/20/2014

Suat Tong Ng wrote:

How big is the art? Is it the size of the OA?

That would have been nice as those pages were over-sized, but the description noted that it measures 10.375 inches wide by 7.375 inches tall.

Patrick Brooks
Member Since 2008

Posted on 8/20/2014

GREAT piece.

Felix Lu
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/24/2014

I don't generally buy color guides, but would have made an exception for this one. Very cool.

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