I stumbled across a Flickr group (and Flickr itself, actually) where people would take a crack at inking a Jack Kirby Thor page.  It's called "Re-Inking Thor."  Just to give a little background, Jack Kirby is an unbelievably influential cartoonist.  There's no other way to put it, and if you're not familiar with him, I'm here to tell you that you actually are and just weren't aware of him by name.  But I guarantee you're familiar with his work.  Anyhow, he was also ridiculously productive, but wasn't particular about who inked his work.  A variety of people ended up inking him, but one of them drew a lot of fire for his, how should we put it, lackadaisacal attention paid to his work.  Since so many people mercilessly mocked this inker, and someone had a good photostat of one of a Thor page from Kirby's prime, it was time for anyone handy with a brush to put their money where their mouth was, and do better than Vince Colletta.

If you feel like checking out the photo pool, you'll have to be the judge of whether I did a good job on these (or at least a better job than the original work), but one thing was apparent: the only thing that an inker could do is screw this page up.  The pencils were just fine (which is an understatement), and staying true to Kirby's linework would yield an excellent result.  I'd encourage you to click on the images anyhow to see bigger versions of them (the large versions are too wide for this blog). 




In my defense, these were done on tracing paper with a fine felt-tip marker, and a Sharpie.  Even so, Kirby's brilliance shines through my crude efforts...

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