color artist – writer – brewer

Matt Hollingsworth

About Me

Dude dude dude! I’m a neurodivergent human from Ojai, California, though I’ve lived in Croatia since 2006. Now residing in the nearly 800-year-old town of Samobor, I share the minor expanse of my existence with my awesome wife, gnarly metalhead son, and our furry friends.

Comics

I’m a color artist for comic books, a career that began in 1991.

I’ve worked for most of the larger comics publishers in the United States, but mainly for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Vertigo, Dark Horse, and Image.

I’ve done color art for Preacher, Wytches, Hawkeye, Death: The Time of Your Life, Daredevil, Hellboy, Batman, Little Bird, Catwoman, The Filth, Wolverine, Guardians of the Galaxy, and many more comics.

I’ve colored over 20,000 pages. Check out a partial list of the comics I’ve worked on here.

I’ve collaborated with such fine specimens of humanity as Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Mike Mignola, J. Michael Straczynski, Christopher Nolan, Harlan Ellison, and George Romero.

You can see a list of the more than 400 creators I’ve worked with here.

I attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art straight out of high school and graduated in May of 1991. Two days after graduating, I landed my first gigs at DC and Marvel Comics and have been working for them ever since.

Interviews with me:

Roundtable at Comics Journal

Focused on Comics Podcast

Comics Awards

Eisner Awards:

1997: Best Colorist for Preacher, Death: The Time of Your Life, Bloody Mary, Challengers of the Unknown

Eisner Awards for books I worked on:

1999: Best Continuing Series for Preacher with Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
2002: Best Anthology for Bizarro Comics edited by Joey Cavalieri
2003: Best Continuing Series for Daredevil with Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev
2004: Best Serialized Story for “Half a Life” with Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
2005: Best Anthology for Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist edited by Diana Schutz
2011: Best Short Story for “Post Mortem” with Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
2014: Best Single Issue for Hawkeye #11, “Pizza is My Business” with Matt Fraction and David Aja (also won the Harvey Award)
2014: Best Limited Series for The Wake with Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy
2020: Best Limited Series for Little Bird with Darcy Can Poelgeest and Ian Bertram

Eisner Award nominations for best colorist:

1994: Aliens: Labyrinth, Aliens: Salvation, Creature from the Black Lagoon
2003: Alias, Daredevil, The Filth, Batman: Nine Lives, Catwoman, Catwoman: Selina’s Big Score
2004: Catwoman
2014: Hawkeye, Daredevil: End of Days, The Wake
2019: Batman: White Knight, Seven to Eternity, Wytches
2020: Batman: Curse of the White Knight, Batman Von Freeze, Little Bird, November
2024: Captain America, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Punisher

United Kingdom Comic Art Award for Best Auxiliary Contributor:

1996
1997

Harvey Award nominations:

1995: Grendel Tales, for Best Colorist
1996: Grendel Tales: Devil’s Choice, for Best Colorist
1997: Preacher, for Best Colorist
1998: for body of work, including Preacher, and Batman: The Gauntlet, for Best Colorist
2003: Catwoman, for Best Colorist
2025: Precious Metal, for Book of the Year

Eagle Awards nominations for coloring:

2000
2008
2014 (won)

Don Thompson Award for Best Achievement by a Colorist

1997
1998

My current gigs are Bleeding Hearts (with Deniz Camp and Stipan Morian) for Vertigo, Gotham by Gaslight: A League for Justice (with Andy Diggle and Leandro Fernández) for DC Comics, Mortal Thor (with Al Ewing and Pasqual) for Marvel Comics, and Habitat (with Joshua Dyshart, David Lapham, and Bill Sienkiewicz) for Bad Idea. I will soon begin work on Batwoman (with Greg Rucka and Dani) for DC Comics.

Check out a massive wall of pages here. If you’d rather browse series by series, with more information about each comic, go here.

My Wikipedia page

Writing

I studied writing during the boredom spawned by the social distancing of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of that pandemic, many schools switched to offering classes online, sometimes via Zoom, sometimes asynchronously. I took a massive course load, sometimes as many as seven classes at a time, and devoted a ton of time and effort to learning the craft of writing. Writing gave me a creative and emotional outlet.

After COVID restrictions eased, I continued studying and writing and have now completed over 50 courses at the schools listed below.

Writing programs I attended

Teachers I studied with

You can find my published prose here.

Movies

A scene from the movie Elektra, with snakes I texture painted.

A scene from the movie Serenity, with a background I worked on.

In 2003 and 2004, I attended Gnomon, a visual effects school in Hollywood. I took a heavy course load to learn what I needed to break into working on effects in movies and landed my first gig at Stan Winston Digital in April of 2004.

From 2004-2006 I took a break from comics to work on visual effects in Los Angeles, working on seven films, including Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Serenity, and Superman Returns at Stan Winston Digital, Rhythm and Hues, and Sony Pictures Imageworks. I worked mainly as a texture painter but also did lighting and effects animation.

My movie credits on IMDB.com

Beer

I started brewing beer at home in 1997 when I lived in Portland, Oregon. After joining the homebrew club the Oregon Brew Crew, I entered and judged at homebrew competitions. In 2000, as an award for winning a gold medal in Portland, I went to Widmer Brewing to brew 12 barrels of my IPA, which was called Hop Nation and was released commercially.

In 2012, I co-founded the first competition for homebrewed beer in Croatia, along with my pals Andrej Čapka and Ludo Beaurain. I was head beer judge for Croatia for seven years, and we trained beer judges who later opened commercial breweries and sparked the craft beer revolution here in Croatia. I’m also one of the original donors for Nova Runda brewery.

At Pivovara Medvedgrad in 2022, racking Pivo Svetog Martina into rum barrels for aging.

A gold medal from London for one of the beers I brewed. 2015.

I still brew and have brewed ~350 batches of beer. Twice a year, I join my friends at Pivovara Medvedgrad to collaborate on a commercial beer with their brewer, Božo Kostanjčar.

Photo by Darjan Grilec.

On stage before awarding medals at Hrvatsko Homebrew Prvenstvo 2017, with my pal and co-organizer Andrej Čapka, the director and owner of Zmajska Pivovara.

Photo by Boris Berc

Pivo Svetog Martina, a collaboration brewed with Božo Kostanjčar at Pivovara Medvedgrad. The beer is a Barleywine of 10.3% abv, released in Croatia every year on November 11th.

Fantom Juicy Lager New England Pale Lager, a collaboration with Pivovara Medvedgrad.

Brewing Awards

1. 1999: Networt IV (NJ). 2nd place for a Pils (Batch 26)
2. 1999: Networt IV (NJ). 2nd place for a Kolsch (Batch 29)
3. 1999: Networt IV (NJ). 1st place for a Winter IPA (Batch 32)
4. 2000: Slurp & Burp Open (OR). 1st place for a Ginger Belgian Blond Ale (Batch 48)
5. 2000: Heart of the Valley (OR). 3rd place for a Ginger Belgian Blond Ale (Batch 48)
6. 2000: The Rose Festival (OR). 2nd place for a Dark Mild (Batch 58)
7. 2000: The Rose Festival (OR). 1st place for a Ginger Belgian Blond Ale (Batch 61)
8. 2000: The Rose Festival (OR). 3rd place for an Amber Ale (Batch 65)
9. 2000: The Rose Festival (OR). 1st place for an ESB (Batch 66)
10. 2000: The Rose Festival (OR). 1st place for an IPA (Batch 64)
11. 2000: The Oregon State Fair. 1st place for an IPA (Batch 64)
12. 2000: The Collaborator Competition (OR). 1st place for an IPA (Batch 64)
13. 2000: The Dixie Cup (Texas). 1st place for an IPA (Batch 69)
14. 2015: London & South East Competition. 1st place for a Brett Beer (Batch 208)
15. 2016: Slovenia. 1st place for an Imperial Stout (Batch 165)
16. 2016: Slovenia. 2nd place in Best of Show for an Imperial Stout (Batch 165)
17. 2016: Slovenia. 2nd place for a Brett Beer (Batch 225)
18. 2016: Slovenia. 3rd place for a Brett Beer (Batch 229)
19. 2017: London & South East Competition. 1st place for a Barleywine (Batch 139)
20. 2017: Slovenia. 1st place for a Barleywine (Batch 118)
21. 2017: Bulgaria. 3rd place for a Barleywine (Batch 139)
22. 2018: London & South East Competition. 3rd place for a Solera Sour.