Would you enjoy comics more if they were in black and white?

Would you enjoy comics more if they were in black and white?

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I honestly might. I can't recount how many times I've seen an original panel before it was colored and concluded that something was lost in translation. Pillow shading and "realistic" coloring do nothing to enhance a comic's look in my eyes, so why not just keep it simple and clean on a regular run? Coloring can be used for special editions, omnibuses, or comic's books the creator has a specific vision in mind where back and white won't suffice.

No. Colors are pretty.

Yes because colorists are idiots who shouldn't have a job.

whos the guy at the left of nightcrawler ?

90% of the time black and white looks better, and with how shit coloring has gotten it's getting worse and worse.

There's a certain charm to black and white comics, but they don't always work for the tone of certain books. I think I'd like to see more of them overall though.

No, I honestly think that western artists do not have the artistic technique to really make a black and white comic visually interesting.

They always make them look like they're just ready for a colorist to come in.

Maybe. I think more artists should be forced to learn how to work black & white before they can use color.

Yes

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>western
I think you're talking about american capeshit artists, and even there you have guys like frank miller whose style is made for b&w
the spaniards, the italians, the southamericans, some french, a good part of brits etc. work great in b&w

I always see it as the opposite, the inkers keep thinking all their works are gonna end up with a noir edition.

>western artists
You are not just wrong, but in the wrong board too. Go back to Yea Forums

I have read a lot of books in the Marvel Essential line and I can say that it helps me appreciate the artist more but I don't know if it helps me enjoy the comic more

Depends on the style of the art. I think the immortal hulk run would look great in b&w, since it has the aesthetic of a 30s universal monster movie, but something like the superman run would look a bit worse. Overall I think that most colorists are hacks, and digital coloring is a lost cause, but it depends.

I already do

>black and white
What are we, savages? This isn't the early 1900s anymore. Leave that stuff to the mangaka working slave wages.

depends on the art
if its like sin city or the bratpack then eayh ill enjoy it

if it meant a decrease in price and changes in the artists being used so we get some clean lines

I read those. They're called manga.

Banshee

Heavy Metal B&W comics are terrible

Value and contrast are some of the most basic elements when crafting an image. If an artist doesn't know how to use them he's got no business being published in the first place. All comics should be 'readable' in B&W.

It depends on the book. Horror books like Man-Thing are practically made for the black and white aesthetic.

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Why do you think digital is a lost cause? It's still a relatively new way to color

too hard to see whats going on, the characters and background run together

>It's still a relatively new way to color
It's been in regular use for at least 30 years, it's not getting better

I would like colored comics better if they were colored by the same people who drew them. It's so fucking weird to me, as an artist, that American comic books have separate people draw pencils, inks, then color it. I would never let anyone else finish my own drawing.

Ehh, not really. While I think good ink alone is better than a shitty coloring job, it certainly isn't enough to cancel out all the other reasons I don't read comics as much as I could.
Now, if it really went full manga and was cheaper, told a full story, and I could pick up a new issue every week at the store instead of needing to travel to a specialty shop, then absolutely.

Looks like Banshee.

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I'd enjoy them the same since both exist. I'll admit that some look better with color and others without. Good inking is underrated, too, and bad inking could hurt the art badly.