2013 INKWELL AWARDS SEASON NOW UNDERWAY!

The Inkwell Awards, a non-profit advocacy group devoted to promoting and educating about the art form of comic book inking is now celebrating its sixth season. Bob Almond, founder and director of the organization announced this week a year’s worth of activities, events and accomplishments all designed to celebrate the talents of artists of ink […]

Scott Williams

Jim Lee Unfinished Pencils/Sketch Layout Scott Williams Finished Inks Scott Williams is, without question, the most influential inker/finisher of the 90’s comic book era. Scott illustrated his fair share comics throughout his early career but is best known for his collaborations with Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio. Together, the three of them developed a new […]

Mark McKenna

Back in 1985 Mark McKenna got his first real break when he was asked to ink a page from the Indiana Jones series. At the time Mark was working in the Marvel system as one of the now legendary Romita’s Raiders, an apprenticeship program that had been set up to offer aspiring artists the chance […]

FAQs

Q) “Are inkers ‘tracers’?” A) Not quite.  If you have asked this question you probably are the umpteenth person to use the T-word, usually in jest after seeing the Kevin Smith film ‘Chasing Amy’. Inkers are craftsmen/artists who are usually insulted by this comparison as there is more involved, otherwise just anyone would be able to do […]

STOLEN INKWELL AWARDS MERCHANDISE!

(From Bob Almond’s posts on Facebook today): STOLEN! Got back parcels of our Inkwell Awards materials following Heroes Con from the USPS and one box was empty although it had the stamp for $13.44 and had been resealed. Problem is we didn’t insure the box so I could only get the postage reimbursed and place […]

BOB’S BLOG-’INKBLOTS’: 2012 Special Recognition Awards

      <Note: this was the original material from my first edited draft regarding this year’s Special Recognition Awards that would up in a much-abbreviated form for the live ceremony speech at Heroes Con June 23 on Saturday 12:30-2:00 for the sake of brevity. All three Inkwell award recipients received their silver inkwell trophy following the […]

2012 Winners

Voting for the 5th annual Inkwell Awards was conducted via online balloting for two weeks from May 1st through May 15th, 2012. Subsequent ballots from the same IP address were omitted from the tallies. Thank you for the thousand votes you placed. The Inkwell Awards Committee would like to formally extend congratulations to all the […]

Ernie Chan (1940-2012)

Yesterday we lost another Filipino comic book master illustrator and ink artist only one week after Tony Dezuniga – Ernie Chan. Ernie was a favorite inker of mine as  a young fan. I only saw a couple of covers of his early DC Batman work, but it was his less than one year run on […]

NomCom 2012

The following contributors were elected to the 2012 Nomination Committee and are responsible for determining the Ink Artists deserving to be recognized for outstanding work on art with a cover date of 2011. NomCom members are rewarded with a Special Silver Inkwell for 5 years of service. Bob Bretall (1) Co-Host, Comic Book Page Podcasts […]

The Inkwell Awards STORE is now LIVE!

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.