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For those who’ve been following the status of my Inkblots column in Sketch Magazine (last reported in my April new article) it looks like starting with issue 40 all future printed issues of the magazine will be exclusive to the subscribers only, not ordered through the Previews catalog for the stores, but there will be digital issues available […]
Jim Starlin has been a hero to me since I was in elementary school and he was the man who directly got me hired as a comics professional and who was long overdue to get a prestigious coffee table-style art book on his life and work. So after picking up this book today from my retailer I was […]
Handbook Hunt: In the recently-released AVENGERS: THE ULTIMATE CHARACTER GUIDE from DK Publishing (USA), there are sample art images inked by me for the entries on Black Panther (recolored), Klaw, and Man-ape, all over Sal Velluto’s pencils. Sketch Magazine#30 update: as reported back on December 11 a year ago (when it was already many months late) Sketch Magazine’s site announced that they […]
For those interested there’s a new show in my backyard and I’ll be attending this Sunday. The Southcoast Toy and Comic Show run by Mark Gomes debuted earlier this year in Fairhaven, Massachusetts and December 5 will mark their third convention outing. I live in New Bedford, the next town over, and had been invited back in […]
You can ready the 3rd annual round table interview here with myself, Bob Shaw, Nathan Massengill, Mark McKenna, Ernie Pelletier, Jimmy Tournas, Daniel Best, Dan Panosian, Tom Schloendorn, and Joe Sinnott. And you can read about other developments here. Below is the cover of the WW:New England Comic Con exclusive IA donation drive book with cover art pencilled & […]
Well, more like with The Man…or Stan (The Man) Lee to be exact. For months I’ve been working on The Guardian Project for Guardian Media Entertainment but had to keep the info to myself due to a NDA. For weeks I inked/finished 50-something shots of the characters for merchandise-related art and Stan himself called me back in July […]
I was informed today by Joe Sinnott‘s son Mark that his dad was diagnosed with a broken hip. He’d been suffering over the weeks from leg pain and was issued a walker. X-rays subsequently detected a crack in the bone but an MRI confirmed that his hip was actually broken due to degeneration being that he […]
“The Dilemma of Deviant Art”
Yes, it’s that time of year again! For the third time our Inkwell Awards ballots are now accessible for voting on as of August 15 for another month until September 15 at the IA website homepage at http://www.inkwellawards.com and anyone is welcome to participate. Please show the ink artists some love and take a moment to recognize […]
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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