Quote Originally Posted by Jim Kelly View Post
Adding to that, something I realized as a kid reading comics is that the inkers were using heavier line weight to make certain figures and details pop in the foreground, and less line weight for backgrounds--and the amount of line weight would vary depending on what the inker wanted to bring out.

I don't see that as much anymore--it's a lot of lines with the same weight. Or, even if the inker is using line weight, then the colourist comes along and changes that bold black line to another colour that melts into the rest of the colours, undermining the whole point of those black lines.


I had this comic once (30 years old comic) the lines of the links of the chains in the foreground were made in a much heavier weight than the ones on the links in the background. The perspective effect was stunning.

In France and I think it’s also the case in Europe, there’s usually one artist with one writer. I never met this duo “penciller + inker”. It provides much coherence in style, I think.