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This is a copy/paste of the invitation that went out earlier today. But all the relevant info is there for those interested. Bob Almond
2/26/16-UPDATE: THE FINAL DEADLINE IS MARCH 15. WE MUST HAVE THE 400DPI HI-RES SCAN BY THEN AND YOU MUST SHIP IMMEDIATELY TO MARK SINNOTT. THANK YOU! BOB
WHAT IS IT?
The Inkwell Awards invites you to the sixth annual Joe Sinnott Inking Challenge. Our Hall of Fame Award is named after Joe and, with his approval and support, we have taken a couple of his pencil donations intended for our fundraising, originally rendered on blank variant cover comics, and blown them up and converted them to bluelines for inking. We have chosen ink artists who are A) part of our organization, B) Inkwell award recipients, or C) notable for their career inkwork ranging from the veteran embellishers of the
silver-age through to the respected delineators of today, but any inker can take part, including novices. Since last year some of you who missed previous Challenges asked me to be added to the list and you are included here. For fundraising and educational purposes, we’d like to know if you would be willing to voluntarily participate in inking one or both of these pieces. We will take the final images and post them on our Comic Art Fans gallery in comparison to Joe’s initial pencil art in order to showcase to the public the contributions of various ink artists and what they bring to the table. Secondly, these pieces would be auctioned off to raise funds for our vital operational needs and philanthropic programs like the Dave Simons Inkwell Memorial Scholarship Fund to the students of the Joe Kubert School and our COMPliments Program which allows HoF inkers who are singled out from receiving collections of their work from publishers to receive them through us and not have to purchase them. Last year’s successful program brought in over $3000 on our eBay auctions and this year we anticipate an even better outcome. You can see previous samples of donations from our first four years at our Comic Art Fans gallery (top left labeled links): http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=35444