Okay, that's pretty funny.

Well, he's got that. I thought that WAS the problem.

Why not use Byrne's post about Kirby "doing what today would be called breakdowns" to tie together the discussions about him and Colletta? :p

Ha!

Paul gets in a funny.

The more I dislike that sock-puppet guy, the fonder I feel of Paul. It's like there's only so much loathing in my heart to go around.


Ha!

And Erik gets in a funny.

You loathe me! You REALLY loathe me!

I'd like to thank the Academy...

A LOT of people in the field contracted out. A lot of artists have had assistants and a lot of inkers have had assistants. This is nothing unusual.

In that case, the only thing left to judge him by is the quality of the work. I can't really blame Colletta for that god-awful inking on Thor if he wasn't the guy who did the god-awful inking.

That's why I'm confused. For the sake of fairness, if I want to reevaluate Colletta's work I have to do some pretty in-depth research just to find out which pieces he actually did the inks on.

Maybe there's a collector who knows more about this stuff and can clear it up.

Vinnie had help inking backgrounds in his later years. At the time he was inking Thor--Vinnie was doing his own backgrounds (or erasing them). In the issue of Thor that I drew (385) Vinnie definitely had a background guy. Vinnie inked all of page one--but beyond that he had an assistant doing backgrounds. Vinnie would have simplified it had he inked it himself.

So--in regard to Kirby's Thor-- love it or hate it--Vinnie is doing it all himself.

You know, I always really liked Colletta's inking on THOR.

Also, I think it's hilarious that Mr. Larsen actually references Mr. Sondersted in his signature here for the comicon b-boards. Sir, it makes you look like just one of the guys. How cool is that?