What he says reinforces what I've always suspected--Marvel knew the value of inkers while DC didn't.  DC usually had Dick Giordano and I liked Frank McLaughlin on Irv Novick and Dick Dillin--but Marvel had Joe Rubinstein, Klaus Janson, Tom Palmer, Bob McLeod, Joe Sinnott, Terry Austin, Bob Wiacek, Bob Layton, Gene Day, Dan Adkins, Dan Green, Tony DeZuniga, and more--John Severin on Herb Trimpe was magic!  

Q for JB: You worked with just about everybody I mentioned above.  Is there any inker that you would have liked to have had a long run with that you didn't?

Q for everybody else: What's some favorite penciler/inker collaboration where the inker really made it special for you?

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I usually have a cardinal rule that artists are their own best inkers, with JB, Simonson and Perez being my prime examples.

But I am almost ashamed to say that I recently found the exception to the rule in Alan Davis. He's been inking himself the past few years, and it's still beautiful work, but I find it lacking a certain depth that Mark Farmer was adding to his pencils.

I really loved Garcia Lopez inking JB.