And more to the point, can he do it anywhere else? After all, it might be easier to explain if we could point to another industry that uses inkers…
Luckily, we came across this documentary that explains pretty well what an inker does and how the work applies to other fields… meet Garson Hampfield, Crossword Inker.
Glenn Hauman
Glenn is VP of Production at ComicMix. He has written Star Trek and X-Men stories and worked for DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, Random House, arrogant/MGMS and Apple Comics. He's also what happens when a Young Turk of publishing gets old.
Columns / Glenn Hauman / News
Stephen Colbert, we have your writer for “The Chronicles of Amber”!
January 20, 2023
The Law Is A Ass #460: Those “For Life” Sentences Are Nonsense
February 24, 2022
"The penciller is the most glamorous jobs of the Box Team…he gets all the glory, all the ladies know his name."Wow. That's amazing.
I was sent this by another artist last week. It was so good I had to send it out to lots of other comics people (including you). While I think an average person might find it somewhat amusing and a comics fan might get just a little more of it, I think you'd have to be working in our business to really get most of this, and really be an inker to truly see just how brilliant this is yet fully appreciate just how too-close-to-home it sadly hits. I've found myself sounding way too much like fictional Garson at times.
Laugh-out-loud funny, Andrew, thanks so much for finding this! I put it up on my blog as today's Silly Site. Robin chuckled quite a bit at it.