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Post by Warmonger on Aug 29, 2016 22:56:31 GMT -5
I have favorite penciller and inkers - but I had a hard time finding the two that worked together as a partnership and that's one area that I need to work on deciding my favorite. I had a hard time deciding between Buscema/Alcala and Buscema/Palmer...but at the end of the day, those Savage Sword showings by Buscema/Alcala had to top the list. I know Big John was an ornery old bastard when discussing the inkers who polished off his pencils, and even though Alcala may have altered his work rather drastically, it was still a meshing of two styles that worked incredibly well IMO. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 30, 2016 5:20:35 GMT -5
Of all the artists, I think that Buscema is on top or near it for me but he seemed negative sometimes about the work. It was said that he hated drawing superheroes.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 30, 2016 12:04:23 GMT -5
Always loved seeing Wally Wood doing inks. Hell, Wally Wood doing anything Wally Wood inking Jack Kirby on those Skymasters newspaper strips Wally Wood inking the pedestrian Bob Brown in Superboy circa 1970 and made it look nice Wally Wood inking Ric Estrada on All Star comics Wally Wood inking Ditko but I forget for which strip Wood and Sinott were the kings huh? How long was Joe on FF with Kirby? Sinnott inked Kirby on Fantastic Four #5 (July 1962), one page of #6, 44-92, 94, 95, 98-102 & part of #108 (March 1973), and various covers between #164 & 200 (November 1978). |
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Post by String on Aug 30, 2016 14:36:58 GMT -5
I have favorite penciller and inkers - but I had a hard time finding the two that worked together as a partnership and that's one area that I need to work on deciding my favorite. I'm in the same boat. Coming into comics during the 80s though, for my money's worth, there's fewer that are any better than Terry Austin and Tom Palmer. |
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Post by brutalis on Aug 30, 2016 16:20:26 GMT -5
Two inker's that i consider the least: Joe Giella inks always seemed to be flat,lacking depth and/or details and uninteresting. Vince Colletta at times (sometimes he was ok depending on the strength of the artist and how much time he had/gave to the job) but his later years with Marvel when Shooter used him (and his assistants) as the go to for fast literally overnight inks was the times i least liked his inking.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 30, 2016 16:46:38 GMT -5
Gene Colan and Tom Palmer are difficult to beat, their run on Tomb of Dracula is a classic. I found the combination of Al Milgrom and Mike Machlan difficult to enjoy on West Coast Avengers. Milgrom with Joe Sinnott was fine, Milgrom inking Starlin on Captain Marvel was great but Milgrom with Machlan, no thanks. I'll second Milgrom and Machlan as potentially my least favorite pairing of penciller / inker. Sinnot's inks were a strength on West Coast Avengers vol. II and it really took a hit when he left. Problems on top of problems. Sinnott was an expert at fixing erratic or dull pencilling. He also made Don Perlin shine on the Defenders (which reminds me of one of my least favourite pairings, Perlin/Pablo Marcos on Defenders #88-92 - rougher than a badger's behind). Machlan was perhaps more of a tracer than Sinnott, but I thought his work with John Byrne after Milgrom's departure was fine, especially the first few issues, even if Byrne's scripts weren't his best. Another pairing I used to hate was Herb Trimpe and Mike Esposito on Marvel Team-Up, featuring one of the clunkiest ever versions of Spider-Man. |
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Post by Farrar on Aug 30, 2016 18:42:40 GMT -5
I love Wally Wood now but I hated his inking of Mike Sekowsky on Wonder Woman #195, mostly because Dick Giordano was the usual inker on the mod WW book back then so Wood's inks just looked blah and out of place to me and made everything seem less kinetic. Back then I think I didn't even think these were Sekowsky's pencils, that's how odd the art looked to me after a steady diet of Sekowsky-Giordano (or occasionally Sekowsky-Giacoia).  I also felt the same way when Jack Abel became Curt Swan's primary inker on the Superman family of books in the late 1960s. IMO George Klein was Swan's ideal inker, so the first time I saw the Swan-Abel team (in Adenture #369) I'm pretty sure I thought it was a new penciler and not Swan, as the art seemed so different from what I was used to, more slick I guess. (I do like Abel on Gene Colan, though, for example in the Silver Age Iron Man stories I've read recently.)  I also consider Klein to be the definitive inker for John Buscema; their late 1960s Avengers work was absolutely perfect IMO. So I hated it when Tom Palmer started inking Buscema on the book later on (starting with Av. #74). Though I had liked Palmer on Adams and admire Palmer's work in general, all his shading and textures and zip-a-tone really made Buscema's art look strange to me (I'm referring to the time when Buscema was doing full pencils in the Avengers). |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 30, 2016 18:56:25 GMT -5
Two inker's that i consider the least: Joe Giella inks always seemed to be flat,lacking depth and/or details and uninteresting. Vince Colletta at times (sometimes he was ok depending on the strength of the artist and how much time he had/gave to the job) but his later years with Marvel when Shooter used him (and his assistants) as the go to for fast literally overnight inks was the times i least liked his inking. I think Joe Giellas inks over Dave Cockrums pencils in GS Avengers came out kind of lifeless. |
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 30, 2016 22:48:23 GMT -5
Great:
Dan Jurgens/Dan Jurgens
Dan Jurgens/Brett Breeding
Dan Jurgens/George Perez
Dan Jurgens/Jerry Ordway
Oddly not:
Dan Jurgens/Art Thibert
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 9:48:26 GMT -5
Murphy Anderson & Joe Giella
I finally have my favorite!
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Post by brutalis on Sept 6, 2016 9:59:09 GMT -5
Wish Kane and Janson would have teamed together on a regular series together. That would have been insanely wonderful but their covers and few stories were singularly beautiful indeed.
One inker we have not discussed yet: Jim Mooney! While his pencils were always adequate if not imaginative his inks were always strong and solid and readily known when seen as being by him and yet he still allowed the pencil styling's underneath shine through. Mooney was a good fit for Spider-man for so many years through the 70'd and 80's for good reason.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 6, 2016 11:58:07 GMT -5
Infantino and Anderson anyone?  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 6, 2016 12:01:28 GMT -5
Kubert and himself, natch!  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 6, 2016 12:03:43 GMT -5
Smith and Adkins  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 6, 2016 12:06:36 GMT -5
Gil Kane and Ralph Reese   |
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