To raise funds for Inkwell Awards expenses we have asked artists in our community to donate a sketch for us on sketchcards and, as seen here, variant blank sketchbook covers, so we can auction them off on eBay. On page 14 of my Inkwell Gallery on the “MISCELLANEOUS BY LILLY, TRIMPE, VELLUTO” entry, I posted my first 2 sketchbook cover inks for the 2008 initial election year. This year I inked 3 such donated covers. I worked over Scott Wegener for the 1st time on the Human Torch (who I’ve never inked solo before, only in Fantastic Four team and Thing team-up commissions) because he had been recently hired by Marvel to do a new Human Torch series. I used my usual 3 tools plus drybrush. I also inked Jim Tournas for the 1st time on a Secret Invasion cover to do my 1st “skrullified” Archie Andrews. I used the same stuff to ink it as I always do (Raphael Kolinsky brush size 2, Pitt brush marker, and micron & Pitt markers). I completed those 2 covers on 3/11/2009. Lastly, I inked Mark McKenna for the 2nd time, although the 1st one was a superhero piece while this one was cartoony with his owned property Bananatail. With brush & markers I did the job and showed it off a month later on April 12, 2009. Onward for another year and thanks much if you voted and/or supported us this year or last!
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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180 Park Street
New Bedford, MA 02740
dmralmond@gmail.com