something I am grateful for today

[johncomic]

I have a plan.

It remains to be seen if I follow through on the plan or not... but for now, I at least have it.

Now that I have a project in mind that seems like it would benefit from this: I have dug out my brushes and I plan to [finally] learn how to ink with them.

Not sure if I am too old of a dog for this new trick, but I am finally up for taking a shot at it, with more enthusiasm than I can ever recall previously for this task. My gratitude is for the fact that working in my chosen artform still truly excites me after all this time.

Comments

[johncomic.livejournal.com]

He also recognizes that the majority of fan[boy]s make their purchases on the strength of the penciller's name.

But a good choice of inker can make a penciller a star. John Byrne gathered a cult following for his pencils fairly quickly, but it wasn't until Terry Austin inked him that he suddenly became John Byrne®

And I never really appreciated Ross Andru until the time I first saw him inked by Tom Palmer and saw the strengths in his art brought forward more clearly.

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

Sure. Thing is, he's easily demonstrated as being wrong -- it's not the art that sells comics, but the story.

Ask yourself how many times a company like Marvel or DC needed to remodel a major title or an entire universe. These were critical projects, demanding the safest choices -- the talent seen as most likely to yield a superior sales outcome.

Whom did they choose to architect the makeover? Invariably, it was guys like Grant Morrison, Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns. You mentioned Byrne -- he did it too, at least twice that I recall, but he was a double-duty guy who also wrote.

Has there ever been an instance in which a major makeover project was handed to an artist with no writing experience?

[johncomic.livejournal.com]

Image!! :P