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Inkwell Awards Roundtable Interview

Filed Under Comics Artists, Philippine Comics | 

The Pulse’s Jennifer Contino at Comicon.com interviews the people behind the Inkwell Awards who explain what it’s all about. I’m posting it here because the profession of inking in comics, although it’s something I no longer exclusively do, is something I still very much respect. I still feel a very strong solidarity with my fellow inkers and anything that sheds light on this oft misunderstood job in comics I would never hesitate to support.

People interviewed include Bill Nichols, Daniel Best, Tim Townsend, Jimmy Tournas and Mike Marts.

Excerpts:

TIM TOWNSEND: …We get plenty of recognition from the pencilers but we want the fans at large to really understand that there’s more to this than they might think. This is an art in and of itself.

BOB ALMOND: It’s an annual awards event targeting ink artists specifically. The impetus for this was a noticeable abatement of inker credits in traditional areas like collected works credits, solicitations, sample art credit, etc….I was noticing the attention to ink artists diminishing, combined with the use of Photoshop digital darkening (sometimes incorrectly called digital inking) becoming more common…

Read the Entire Roundtable Interview here.

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