This auction is for a one-of-a-kind original hand-colored colorguide comic production art page from Marvel Comics J2 #8 PAGE 5. This piece of art is the last page of the story "Team-Up Traumas!", and finds Rina(daughter of Woverine) claws-out getting ready to slice-up the son of Juggernaut(J2)! This page is approximately the same size as a normal comic book, and was used in the actual production of the 1998 book, colored & signed by the colorist Tom Smith. He colored it on a shrunkdown 8 1/2" by 11" paper copy of the original drawn and inked 11 x 17" artwork(which you do not get, someone else owns that!), with the art unmarked. Almost all comics are computer colored now and have been for a good decade or two, so these hand-colored/painted covers & pages are no longer produced, so these older ones are getting more collectible than ever. Shipping will run $8.00 to anywhere in the U.S.
Color guide artwork is different from black and white original art. Color guides (colorist's artwork) are re-sized copies of the pencil and ink original artwork that are assigned to the issue's colorist, and then hand painted (colored by hand with watercolor dyes) by that colorist. Colorguides usually measure about the same size as the published comic book, and some have "color codes" for the printers to follow. Because most modern comic books are now colored by using computers, there are no more color guide pages being produced, which makes the surviving color guide pages highly collectible. This description is (C) RLC.