In this week’s episode of Off Panel, colorist Rico Renzi (Spider-Gwen, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) joins the show to talk his work. Renzi discusses his time in a ska band, how that world influenced his art, what led him to coloring comics, how his take on colors developed, his time as the creative director at Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find and HeroesCon, the art of arranging people at cons, how his shop experience changed his understanding of comics, going full time as a colorist, his approach to colors, the importance of Spider-Gwen, working with Robbi Rodriguez, workload, his t-shirt design side hustle, and more.

You can find Renzi on Twitter, on his website and his work in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Quicksilver: No Surrender and the upcoming Goddess Mode at Vertigo Comics.

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Header image is from Spider-Gwen, art by Robbi Rodriguez and Renzi. Intro and outro music is Vulfpeck’s Outro from their album Vollmilch. Thanks to the band for letting me use the track.