ds9

In '97 Tom Grindberg was looking for a new inker
for Marvel's STAR TREK: DS9 title that he had
been penciling. Tom had been happy with some
earlier Marvel work I'd done with him so he got
the editor's approval and they sent me pencil &
inked photocopies of Tom's work from ST:DS9#6.
From that I inked 3 pages(mostly in brush), sent
them in and got Marvel's and Paramount's
approval to come aboard as embellisher. Unlike
the other two sample jobs posted on this page
where I had a preferrable medium to ink on in
each case(blue line for THUNDERBOLTS and,
even better, the actual boards for the
AVENGERS) I had to ink these on clear tracing
vellum. This is probably the most common way
to ink over photocopies but I'm not fond of the
bubbling and shifting of the paper. But at least
the clarity is a bit better than working on boards
over a light box, but I digress.
Anyway, I inked issues 8 & 9 and then 12.
And that was it. For reasons that I'd rather not
get into Tom was soon off the book and I, as his
new inker, went with him. Easy come easy go
as they say. Click the pencil & ink thumbnails to
enlarge the images.