TCAF 2026: Using Colour to Tell a Story


Using Colour to Tell a Story

Paterson Hodgson and panelists Michael DeForge, Audra Stang, and Heather Loase discuss doing comics in colour versus black and white, the rules they have created for themselves—or chosen to break—when working in comics.

They also talk about drawing and colouring for print, photographing artwork versus scanning it, working with full-bleed art, and the differences between realism and fantasy in colour use. Additional topics include the moods they try to create through colour, tips for printing on newsprint, how colour is used across different genres, and the best thing to happen to them that weekend.

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