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Jon Juzan
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A poster stated (over on Newsarama) that Todd McFarlane's true talents were as an inker, not a penciller; something I agree with. I remember seeing his pencils for a page; they were almost non-existant. Always seemed to me that he should have learned anatomy much better before he made the jump of going almost straight to inks.
I can't remember you inking yourself before the FF; you've obviously had anatomical structure mastered for all of your Marvel years of which I am familar. I'm curious as to what point in your career you had the confidence to make a drastic "shortcut" in pencils to inks. Or was it before your career at Marvel?
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John Byrne
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I inked all my own stuff at Charlton, but it was not until I was a few issues into the FF that I began cutting back on the amount of pencil that went under those inks. I'd switched from X-MEN to FF and continued penciling the latter as I had the former, anticipating Terry Austin to "cross over" with me, as inker. When Terry backed out, Jim Salicrup suggested I ink it myself. Which I did. Over a span of several issues I cut back on those things that I did not need to have in the pencils, in order to ink the pages, and then, one day, finally called Jim and told him that, if he had no problems, I planned to switch to breakdowns from the next issue on. Perhaps it is not a mere coincidence that the issue on which I made the switch was the one Jim claimed to have the best inks of his tenure as editor.*
*And, not, I won't tell you which one it was!
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Matt Hawes
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I still remember at the time of the storyline with Reed Richard's father, Nathaniel, that there was a lettercol where you mentioned that you would be experimenting with your art in issues to come, JB. As I recall, you didn't specify what you were going to be doing that was different, though.
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Jon Juzan
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And, not, I won't tell you which one it was!
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I wouldn't ask! With that knowledge, I'm scared I would think I
could see the difference. They worked seemlessly when I
originally read them, so that's all that matters.
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Guest79877180
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Instead of starting a new thread, I'll throw this in here;
JB -
1. When inking with the Faber-Castell PITT (thinking of the recent
commissions), do you use it to do detail/hatching as well, or do you use
something smaller?
2. Do you use the above pen to fill in large black areas, or do you jump to your sharpie, or something else?
3. On the cover to BOTD 3 (that you inked), the Bat Symbol on Batman's
chest is inked hollow, but filled with a grey/black color, whereas
other places in the book, it is a solid black. It seems to me a
purposeful design choice, but I'm wondering what situation(s) do you want it solid
black vs. leaving it up to the colorist?
4. A request - Understanding full well that you are very busy, is there
any chance that in the near future you can post a progression of a page (maybe after it's printed?), with maybe 4 or 6 scans
from beginning to final? I'd (and I'm sure others) love to see
how you lay stuff out from beginning to end. And I completely understand if you are not able to do it.
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John Byrne
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1. I mix and match. Depends on what kind of effect I want in the line.2. I use a larger brush, after having first outlined the finer edges of the black areas. 3. The cover to BitD 3 was colored incorrectly. Batman was supposed to be colored all in shades of red and orange, as he was engulfed in demonfire. Alex corrected this, but he had already sent in the previous version, and DC used the wrong one.
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Robert Kowalewski II
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Incredible
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Thank you for the quick replies. And I'm guessing the images were
in the gallery? Sorry to not have looked a little more
carefully...
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John Byrne
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I could not find them in the Gallery. I uploaded here
directly.
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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thank you very much, Mister B.
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John Byrne
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Sorry there's no backgrounds, and the inks are so
scratchy!
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Robert Kowalewski II
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Well, we can all hope that one day you put backgrounds and stop that scratchy inking(I guess we'll just have to live with what you do now until then).
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