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Well, that is a question I have wondered about.
For my own little comics, I draw on one sheet and trace/ink onto a new Bristol board on my light table, simply because I don't like to erase! (And those penciled pages can get pretty smudgy.) I keep the original pencils in notebooks, and the 11 x 17" inks on a shelf.
As I understand it, in the 60's, 70's, and before and after, original penciled pages were hand-delivered or mailed in to the offices and physically given to the inker to lay down inks on. But, at some point, pencilers could just scan in their pencils and they would be emailed to the inkers, correct? (They could live in different states!)
And then the inked pages would eventually be returned to the artists, a certain percentage going to the penciler and another percentage to the inker--for hoped for sale in the original art market. I assume some on these inked pages have never been touched by a pencil.
Would the inker get ALL of the pages in this case? Leaving the penciler the option of keeping or selling only his pencils/layouts? Or are the inked pages sold as "original art" with both the penciler and inker's names attached?
Edited by Eric Jansen on 09 December 2024 at 9:44am
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