Neat Kirby Inking Challenge
Posted by Brian Cronin, Thursday, October 11th, 2007 5:55 AM
Bumped - I’ve gotten four entries so far, and they’re quite good, but I’d like a couple more before I share them with you folks.
This nice fellow named dogwelder on Flickr decided to re-ink a panel I posted awhile back as an example of how DC had people redraw Kirby’s Superman.
I liked his ink job, but I call upon you artists out there to give it a shot, too! Re-ink the same panel dogwelder did, and e-mail a jpeg of it to me (bcronin@comicbookresources.com), and I’ll post them! It’s just the one panel, so it shouldn’t take up too much of your time.
Sound cool? If so, get inking!
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on 28 Sep 2007 at 8:46 am 1.Oof! Blog! Argh! » Good Idea, But What the Hell is a dogwelder? said …
[…] Comics Should Be Good wants you to join in the fun started by someone (or something) named dogwelder by doing your own inking of a Jack Kirby panel This nice fellow named dogwelder on Flickr decided to re-ink a panel I posted awhile back as an example of how DC had people redraw Kirby’s Superman. […]
on 28 Sep 2007 at 9:31 am 2.Ryan Day said …
Funny enough - have you checked out Jim Rugg’s livejournal lately?
on 28 Sep 2007 at 9:35 am 3.Stephane Savoie said …
To answer a particular question: Dogwelder was a hilarious character from Ennis’ Hitman. He was part of a disfunctional “superhero” team called Section 8, along with the Defenastrator and Friendly Fire.
on 28 Sep 2007 at 10:41 am 4.Luke said …
Hey, a post about me! Neat!
I’m glad you enjoyed my cheese-ball inking of Kirby’s Superman, but the good Kirby re-inking is in the Reinking Thor pool. There is some AMAZING stuff there.
on 28 Sep 2007 at 11:58 am 5.garbonzo said …
Aren’t inkers just a bunch of tracers anyway?
on 28 Sep 2007 at 1:23 pm 6.Apodaca said …
That livejournal just reminds me that Jim Rugg is AWESOME.
on 28 Sep 2007 at 1:26 pm 7.Brian Cronin said …
Wow, Jim Rugg is awesome.
on 28 Sep 2007 at 2:46 pm 8.James said …
Jim Rugg!! That’s the first time I have ever wanted to buy Aquaman. And they were just sketches for fun.
on 29 Sep 2007 at 7:30 pm 9.yo go re said …
seeing the picture, I stand by my original statement: DC made the right call in the first place…
on 02 Oct 2007 at 5:57 am 10.DanCJ said …
No no no! Jack Kirby’s Superman might not have matched the official model of the time, but at least it was a Jack Kirby style face in a Jack Kirby style picture. That Superman face - while being a perfectly good Superman face - just looks sill y in the middle of a Jack Kirby picture.
It’s nearly as bad as the time they had a different artist do Scully and Mulder’s faces when Charlie Adlard was drawing X-Files