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Granted, I haven't looked at SD in many moons as all those Image guys' work makes me physically ill, but his figure work (especially the females) is very Byrne-inspired, and his background work is very Byrne-does-Kirby. His inking techniques are pretty much all lifted from Byrne-era Terry Austin.

Now this is just off the top of my head and I know I'll be leaving out favorites here.

I tend to favor inkers who are also pencilers for some reason and I love inks that have a lot of personality. The thread is favorite inkers and not best inkers so...In no particular order:

Al Williamson. I love his ink style from the 50's and I love the style he approached his work with from the 1980's on even more. IMHO he made John Romita jr. look the best.

Todd Mcfarlane. He's known as a penciler but what always appealed to me about his work was his inks. I realize this will catch me plenty of flack from the comicon peanut gallery but his inking has a lot of personality to it.

Dick Giordano. I knowI wish he'd get a chance to ink some fo the guys today. He did a few Hulk books over Romita jr a few years back and it really looked spectacular. John has a very difficult style to make stand out and Giordano really did the job.

Alex Raymond.

Bill Sienkiewicz.

Erik's work does not look like John Byrne. Walter Simonson however appears to be a more obvious influence.

If you like those two great inkers/artists, you should check out the work of Jim Keefe, he is stunningly talented and evokes both creative people well.

Yeah, good one.

Sam Kieth, Mark Schultz, Brian Bolland would be some of my favorites. They primarily ink themselves though, don't they? Should that be a separate category?

Did Mac Raboy ink his own stuff?

You don't need versatility when you have brilliance.

In no particular order:

Zander Cannon (Replacement God and Other Stories, Top 10)

Bill Sienkiewicz

Klaus Janson

Paul Neary

Karl Kesel (he even made Liefield look good)

That explains your versatility

Me? I'm neither.

An art critic who's provocative, edgy, AND humble? You're just too good to be true.


Probably a very good idea.