CONGRATULATIONS to the 3rd award recipient of the Dave Simons Inkwell Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Joe Kubert School, as presented Friday May 4 by Joe Kubert himself, Kristoffer Sorensen! The Inkwell Awards wish him much luck and success in his remaining academic studies and certain career.
The 2012 Inkwell Awards Ballots are now closed. Thank you for voting. Results will be announce at HeroesCon (June 22-24).
Stan Goldberg! Budd Root! Herb Trimpe! Ivan Reis! Pat Olliffe! Wayne Faucher! Bill Sienkiewicz! Michael Dooney! Scott McDaniel! Tim Vigil! Simon Bisley! Patrick Block! Ron Wilson! Joe Benitez! Joe Prado! David Michael Beck! Louis Small Jr! Doug Sneyd! Ron Frenz! This is but a sampling of the 30 or so post-Boston Con and Pittsburgh Comicon items being auctioned off this week from the Inkwell Awards including a cover, original published art, original illustrations, cover sketches, card sketches, signed prints, etc! Check ’em out and help bring in the deserving award recipients to the annual ceremony at Heroes Con! http://www.ebay.com/sch/merchant/theinkwellawards
As reported today at First Comics News the Inkwell Awards’ fifth season is well under way with their first show stop in Pittsburgh next week and the next two new Ms. Inkwell models revealed and the dates for this year’s voting period established for next month!
Congratulations to Shane Peoples. You are our Leap Day winner! A bundle of comics will soon be on the way! Thanks for joining our FB Page, we’re happy to have you there.
A special thanks to all who signed up on the fan page and the forum. Look for more contests in the future!
John passed away February 12 at the age of 90. His impressive art career in comic books spanned 60 years and he was working right until the end. He usually inked his own pencils but I will always appreciate his ink work over Herb Trimpe’s Incredible Hulk , his EC Comics work and his work with his sister Marie. Here is his wikipedia entry of full career accomplishments and this is Mark Evanier’s blog entry on him. Rest in peace, John.
ITEM: Are you an aspiring ink artist looking to have your samples reviewed/critiqued? Post them at the new Inkwell Awards Artist Alley Forum here at the website where professional artists Jay Leisten and Michael W. Kellar are available to do so! This replaces our old forum (that replaced the P.J. Magalhaes inkers.org forum), now archived, with Sarah L. Covert as the new moderator with Damon Owens stepping down after years of moderating the old venue.
Please register and sign up NOW!
ITEM: The 2012 Inkwell Awards nominations have been submitted, tallied and validated! Here are the Nomination Committee members this time around and they deserve an enthusiastic round of applause! Public ballots will go live at our website homepage on May 1-15. The Heroes Comic Con will take place June 22-24. The Awards Ceremony has not yet been scheduled. We will keep you posted.
Did you know it is a leap year this year? Did you also know that the Inkwell Awards have some pretty special things happening? No? Well you should!
We have a new interactive forum/social network on our site and we also have a new Facebook Fan Page…
But that’s not all!
In order to celebrate the leap year comic book style! We are having a special contest. Every new member who signs up on the forum and our FB Fan Page by the 28th will have their name entered into a raffle. The winner will receive 4 #1 issues of comics, several ComicCon exclusives, and two graphic novels (and maybe some more goodies!).
Good Luck! The winner will be posted on February 29th.
Two years in the making! Books! T-shirts! Prints! Check out our Inkwell merchandise for sale on our Store Page, including the hot off the presses JOE SINNOTT INKING CHALLENGE BOOK, now for sale! And keep checking out the page for new items and updates like shopping carts, quantity counts and payment capabilities.
The latest development for the non-profit inkwell Awards organization is the addition of Jim Shooter to it’s membership roster as a new ambassador. Inkwells director Bob Almond says, “With all that we have going on right now with activities like our annual Joe Sinnott Inking Challenge auctions and gallery book and Nomination process in effect for the 2012 season we weren’t planning to add any more new creators to the ambassador line-up for a bit after our recent additions of Phil Jimenez, Eric Basuldua and the legendary Joe Kubert last September. But sometimes things fall into place with the right people at the right time and you’ve got to run with it. While not involved operationally, the Ambassadors who represent us and agree with our mission can certainly lend a lot more exposure and credibility to our mission, and Jim is no exception. This is an especially exciting way for us to kick off the new year!” Please go here for the rest of the announcement.