The Inkwell Awards, devoted to promoting the art of comic book inking, has announced that its 3rd Joe Sinnott Legacy Challenge Spotlight, featuring Marvel’s Incredible Hulk by artist Allen Milgrom.
The event was launched in 2021 to commemorate the life and long career of the late, award-winning ink artist Joe Sinnott, and the prior annual inking event that had borne his name since 2010. The previous Challenge featured Sinnott’s oft-partner Ron Frenz on Thor and his Amazing Spider-Man Sunday news strip partner Alex Saviuk with Spidey and Mary Jane. This year, artist Al Milgrom‘s exclusive pencil art was scanned and sent to a variety of ink artists to embellish.
Al’s career started in 1972 with ink assisting Murphy Anderson and Crusty Bunkers before he was credited for inking jobs. Around 1975 he was penciling Captain Marvel following Jim Starlin and Guardians of the Galaxy in Marvel presents. For much of his career he was not only penciling and inking titles but he was also an editor from 1977 at DC, where he also co-created Firestorm, and started editing at Marvel in 1979 leading to a memorable ten years tint on Marvel Fanfare. In the 1980s not only was Al incredibly prolific with inking much of the Marvel Universe of projects but he was also hired for his writing on Spider-Man and the Hulk. Joe Sinnott was paired with Al for a couple of notable, long stints at Marvel in the 1980s such as the Avengers for 2 years followed by West Coast Avengers for 2 years and many covers starting in the late 1970s through the 1980s.
For a month, 40 artists have volunteered to participate by inking the blueline pencils printed on board with the option of using the clean, slick line for which Sinnott was known, or in their own way to showcase how much the ink artist can contribute stylistically. Both professionals and amateurs were allowed to take part for the Inkwell’s promotional and educational fundraiser project. In alphabetical order, a few notable participants as of press time are:
- Gerry Acerno
- Oclair Albert
- Steven Baskerville
- Eliot R. Brown
- Sergio Cariello
- Kevin Conrad
- Marc Deering
- Michelle Delecki
- Mark Farmer
- Eber Ferreira
- Scott Hanna
- Don Ho
- Scott Koblish
- Tony Kordos
- Criss Madd
- Jose Marzan Jr.
- Mark McKenna
- Joe Orsak
- Tom Raney
- Mark Sinnott
- Belinda Sinnott
- Matt Slay
- Bob Smith
- Mark Stegbauer
- Karl Story (tentative)
- Keith Williams
Each inked page will be signed by Milgrom and the inker. All pages, plus a certificate of authenticity signed by The Inkwells’ founder/director ,Bob Almond, will be auctioned off as an eBay fundraiser in biweekly waves beginning a weekend in mid-January. Information about the upcoming fundraising auctions can be found on the Inkwell’s website and Facebook group.
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