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From:
Batman (Legends of the Dark Knight) ~ 100th Issue
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Dusty
is the only artist I know who thrives on drawing fire escapes, machinery
and complex backgrounds. Dusty is currently doing exactly that for
Film Roman, as a designer for one of my favorite shows, King of
the Hill. You can even see him in the credits if you're quick with
a remote! This piece has a nice Batman Animated feel to it, with
fun tributes to Dave Johnson, Rudolpho Damaggio, John Byrne, and
others sprinkled in. |
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From:
DV8 Annual #1
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This is Ale
Garza's first solo pencil story. He'd been working his way up
through the Wildstorm bullpen until he got his shot. Writer/Editor
Ruben Diaz, who'd I'd worked with previously at DC, was my connection
to Wildstorm for a time. I wasn't quite a Wildstorm-style inker,
but in my attempts, I learned a lot from this gig, adding some
of those west coast trick into my repetoire.
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Penciller: Ale
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From:
Legion of Superheroes Secret Files #1
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Paul
Pelletier is one of the most underrated comic artists, and I've
only inked a few pages over him. He just gets better, as his work
on Negation makes clear. DC's always had lots of one-shots and
pin-up galleries that are opportunities for different freelancers
to try something new.
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This
was it! My first foray into the ranks of the published! Dave let me
ink as much of the cover as I could, considering I still had a day
job when I started assisting him. Sadly, time was running out, so
I only got to complete 50% of the cover, and Dave finished the job,
so it was a tag team effort, but it will always hold a special place
in my memory. When it came out, I sat on my front porch, constantly
flipping the book open and closed, to see both the cover and the inside
credits, in disbelief that my name was still there! Awesome coloring,
especially the dark Ultramarine Blue sky. Here you'll see Dave's first
attempt at creating a signature for me.
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Penciller: Dave Johnson
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From: Unpublished Captain
America, Thor & Iron Man practice art
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When
Thor penciller Scot Eaton knew I was coming on board with #75, he
whipped up a quick redraw of these Avengers from the splash of #73
so I could warm up to his style. Also, he knew they were some of my
favorite characters and I just missed out inking them by one issue
(#74 was a fill-in). Iron Man's thought balloon: "Leggo o' me"
is very representative of Scot's dry sense of humor. |
| Penciller: Scot Eaton |
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From: JLA #9 Alternate
Inks
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Long
story short: This issue of JLA was ultra-late, the original art
disappeared for weeks, making the editor very uncomfortable! Photocopies
of the pencils were doled out to John Dell, myself and two other
inkers to ink the book asap (over vellum, or as I prefer, frosted
acetate). When we all turned in our work that Friday, the missing
art, now completely inked, showed up at the same time, so those
pages were used instead of ours. This is the best of my five pages,
which still turned out a bit too thinly inked because of the deadline
and discomfort at inking an overlay.
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Penciller: Oscar
Jimenez
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Meet
The Amazing Spider-Man Golden Book
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When
I inked this sometime in the '90's, I never was sent a comp copy from
Western publishing, and I couldn't even find it in any book or toy
stores! Who knows how many of these were published? Thank goodness
Karen found it on Ebay! This project called for basic fat brushwork,
in an animation style. Tragically, only the writer and penciller are
credited inside. Oh, what indignities we inkers must bear! Kirk initially
had drawn Spidey using one finger to press his webshooter on the cover,
but it was caught by an art director at the last minute, so I got
to fix it, as per the Marvel Style Guide. Click below to see a low-res
scan of the unaltered cover. |
| Penciller: Kirk Jarvinen |
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