Larry Clay returns to the gallery with this 13th job for me and my 1st FULL Tuska commission as the last one I did was only one character, the Vision, in an Avengers group shot which was an inker jam meaning larry had a different ink artist ink each character, also from Larry. At 93 years young George is still packin’ a wallop with his pencils as seen here where he renders perhaps the guy he’s most known for drawing, Iron Man, after like a decade on the Marvel series, battling an armed robot. I inked this with my usual supplies but also used some white spatter and scraped a dull X-acto blade on the board, both to enhance the impact of the punch. I finished this 11X14 art on 2-ply board on April 12, 2009. WHAM!!!!
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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New Bedford, MA 02740
dmralmond@gmail.com