Editing Batman: Year One (section)

===Artwork===
[[File:6.28.12DavidMazzuchelliByLuigiNovi36.jpg|thumb|[[David Mazzucchelli]] autographing a copy of the 2005 deluxe edition trade paperback in 2012]]
{{quote box|width=33%|align=right|thumb|quote=Comics printed on newspaper had an available palette of only about 60 colors, which Richmond utilized brilliantly. — Bonus pages in the 2005 deluxe edition, 2016 Absolute Edition Book One, and 2017 deluxe edition.|Mazzucchelli explaining Lewis did an amazing job with her hand painting technique in coloring Year One for the 404-407 monthly issues even thought the newsprint paper material can only print limited amount of colors to match visuals.}}
Miller's past projects for ''Daredevil'' overwhelmed him since he had to handle both writing and illustration duties simultaneously. For ''Year One'', he once again relied on a comic book artist for illustrations while he simply wrote the story and the script. Mazzucchelli signed on to illustrate the artwork after accepting Miller's offering to do Batman. The team also consisted of Mazzucchelli's wife [[Richmond Lewis]] who was in charge of coloring, [[Todd Klein]] as the story's [[letterer]], and O'Neil editing the overall story.

In illustrating, Mazzucchelli sought to make Year One look grimy, dark, and muted. His interpretation of [[Gotham City]] was designed to symbolize corruption, featuring muddy colors that gave the impression of the city being dirty and needing a hero, so Mazzucchelli took on Year One with a more grounded and darker approach.<ref name="visual"/> Newsprint used in most ''Batman'' titles served as the printing paper for Year One during its monthly issues run. In 1988, Year One was published in the collected edition format with Mazzucchelli specifically opted to change the printing paper from newsprint into the [[CMYK color model|process color paper]] that was used in Miller's ''Dark Knight Returns''. He felt this paper material is designed to print lots of colors, more than what newsprint was capable of. With many sets of color available from the [[Hue|color hue]], Lewis recolored the entire story in order to match the visuals printed on the paper.

{{blockquote|'''Mazzucchelli:''' There's a big difference coloring for full process instead of newsprint. Although you have a wide range of colors available in regular comics, the paper can only take so many different colors before they start to look the same. The colors have to be pretty bold for the reader to differentiate between characters and objects.<br>'''Lewis:''' I think newsprint has a lot of possibilites that haven't been explored yet, but of course with [[CMYK color model|process color]] you have a lot more to work with. The trick is in trying to control it, to keep to the simplicity of newsprint color while using the fuller range available in process ... but only where it's needed.|source=Interview of Mazzucchelli and Lewis on why the 1988 collected edition did not reuse newsprint as printing paper. ''DC Direct Currents #1, published on February 1988'' [https://ultimatebatmancomicswebsite.weebly.com/batman-year-one-coloring.html]}}