For Pittsburgh Comicon, April 27-29, 2007, I wanted to prepare some sketches on the back of my Inkworks books before the show to sell but I ran out of time and only got two completed on time. Sadly, they’re not among my better ones, especially the Venom, which is more on par with my part 1 entry. The only non-Inkworks sketch I did at the show was for friend Shelly Block (wife of co-duck artist Patrick Block) in her personal sketchbook of Black Panther. These were all done with Faber=Castell Pitt markers/brushmarker and some micronmarkers. I also used drybrush, spatter and finger smudges for the Ghost Rider andspatter & crayon texture for Venom.
About Me
Bob is the inking half of the Sal Velluto art team collaboration on such projects as Marvel’s critically-acclaimed BLACK PANTHER,’99-’02 leading to a 2003 Comicboards “Ooks” Award for “Best Inker” & two “Squiddies” awards for “Best Inker” (2001 along with “Best Creative Team” win and 2002 tied with Mark Farmer and tied for “Best Multi-Part Story”), and many other projects with Sal since 1997 and other artists at Marvel, DC, Acclaim, Malibu, Penny-Farthing Press, Power Comics, IDW, Kingstone, Thrilling Nostalgia Comics, Harris Comics, Topps, Wildstorm, New England Comics, Valiant and several others. While he’s been primarily an ink artist he’s also been a columnist for Sketch magazine and First Comics News. Bob’s a comic book collector and unofficial historian who has acted as a “Master of the Obscure” at the Marvel Appendix site, been a longtime member of the “Jarvis Heads” and a “group expert” at Facebook groups. He’s the founder/director of the official non-profit Inkwell Awards and advocate since 2008. Bob has been credited with “Special Thanks” along with his “Storyteller” colleagues Christopher Priest & Sal Velluto in the record-breaking film BLACK PANTHER (2018) and BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022).
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