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Inkwell Awards has 3 NEW Ambassadors - Joe Kubert, Phil Jimenez
& Eric Basaldua
By: Michael W. Kellar Date: October 1, 2011, 7:43 pm
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After an astounding premier live awards ceremony at Heroes Con
on June 4-6, the non-profit Inkwell Awards is gearing up for
their fifth season of recognizing inking excellence in the comic
book community and promoting the art form. One highlight is the
recruitment of additional star talent to the roster of Inkwell
Ambassadors, a role that adds exposure and credibility to the
organization and it's mission. Two of the three additions from
their 2011 Inkwell tour stop at Pittsburgh Comicon are artists
Phil Jimenez and Eric Basuldua.
Artist Phil Jimenez is known for his work as a writer and
penciler, often inking his own pencil work, and has a reputation
for utilizing meticulous detail in his art. First hired at DC
in 1991, his career has propelled him to notable runs on series
such as Wonder Woman, The Invisibles, Team Titans, Tempest, and
event projects like War of the Gods, 52 and Infinite Crisis.
For Marvel he produced fan-favorite art for Amazing Spider-Man,
Astonishing X-Men and New X-Men among others. In addition to his
comic book work Phil also teaches life drawing at the School of
Visual Arts on New York City.
Eric Basaldua (AKA Ebas) developed a fan-following from his
early work at Top Cow Productions for Marc Silvestri. Adroit at
both penciling and inking, his work has appeared for publishers
as diverse as Marvel, Zenescope, Dynamite and DC, and he is well
known as a cover artist for properties as Red Sonja, Vampirella,
Witchblade, Tomb Raider, The Darkness, Magdalena, Grimm Fairy
Tales, and many more. Eric's good girl and erotic art has grown
in demand among the art collecting community.
And after some correspondence between Bob Almond and living
legend Joe Kubert last week, Joe wrote back accepting an
invitation for the role of newest ambassador for the advocacy.
"The realization that this master of the art form since the
golden-age has just joined the team is just too much for me to
absorb" said Inkwell director and founder Bob Almond, "it's
truly a dream come true!"
Joe Kubert has worked in comics since the beginning of the
business. In his seventy-plus years of working in the medium he
has produced countless stories for countless characters,
including DC Comics' Hawkman, Tarzan, Enemy Ace, Sgt Rock,
Batman and the Flash as well as his own characters: the heroic
caveman, Tor, and Abraham Stone. His list of accomplishments is
lengthy. A quick rundown: penciler, inker, letterer, colorist,
one of the creators of 3-D comic books, newspaper strip
cartoonist, school founder and teacher, correspondence course
developer, author, artist and editor. Joe Kubert lives and
works in New Jersey. The Kubert School website link is: The
Kubert School
Last June Cully Hamner was added to the ambassador line-up that
includes Adam Hughes, Mike Marts, Ethan Van Sciver, Mark Brooks,
Mike McKone, Sal Velluto, Trevor Von Eeden, and J. David
Spurlock (Ambassadors | Inkwell Awards).
Some recent developments from the Inkwell Awards include
resuming their fundraising auctions on eBay this fall
(
HTML http://www.ebay.com/sch/merchant/theinkwellawards),
they
initiated the successful 2nd Joe Sinnott Inking Challenge by
inviting ink artists to participate, they're polishing up and
further developing their revamped website with all of the
resources from the old site, and they just sent out invitations
for the next Nomination Committee.
"I got jammed up this summer with work assignments but since
then, for preventive maintenance, we've been trying to delegate
various operational duties to the team so things won't get held
up again", said Bob Almond. "We have the Joe Sinnott Inking
Challenge Gallery book going to print this fall, collecting the
contributions of several ink artists over the blue-line pencil
art of Joe such as Terry Austin, Mike Allred, Joe Rubenstein,
Klaus Janson, Bob McLeod, Ernie Chan, Pablo Marcos, Dan Parsons,
Jay Leisten, Mark McKenna and many more. And this year's
Challenge should be just as popular, allowing us to further
educate about the craft and raise funds from the donated pieces.
And we have the Ms. Inkwell Gallery book in the works,
collecting renditions by the artist community of our attractive
spokesmodel, again, to raise funds for our charity, all allowing
us to continue operations, afford various related expenses, and
maintaining our philanthropic efforts such as our COMPliments
Program which supplies our Hall of Fame recipients with comps of
their work and the Dave Simons Inkwell Memorial Scholarship Fund
at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art."
The 2012 Inkwell Awards ballot is scheduled to go online in
April with the actual awards ceremony to be held at Heroes Con
on June 22-24, 2012.
The Inkwell Awards (
HTML http://www.inkwellawards.com
) is a
non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and educate
about the art form of comic book inking and to annually
recognize and award the best ink artists and their work. Now
entering their fifth year, the organization is overseen by a
number of industry professionals such as founder & director Bob
Almond, Jimmy Tournas, Daniel Best, Michael Kellar and Stacey
Aragon who make up the IA core committee and Adam Hughes, Mike
Marts, Ethan Van Sciver, Mark Brooks, Sal Velluto, Mike McKone,
Trevor Von Eeden, J. David Spurlock and Cully Hamner who make up
their IA ambassadors, and numerous contributors such as Mark
McKenna, Dan Panosian, Louis Small, Jr. and Randy Green among
others. They sponsor the Dave Simons Inkwell Memorial
Scholarship Fund for the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic
Art and host the Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame.
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