Wrightson's Solomon Grundy pencils, page 22

In case some of us have forgotten, this page shows how skillfully Bernie arranges areas of black and white.  He mastered "chiaroscuro" before most of us could spell the word. It's all there in the pencils, which makes an inker's job a lot easier.

As discussed elsewhere, this story was written, pencilled and inked in 1997, but remained unpublished until 2010, in "Batman's Hidden Treasures".

Batman and Solomon Grundy: page 17

Bernie Wrightson pencils, my inks, Ron Marz script. Drawn in the late '90's and published earlier this year in Batman Hidden Treasures #1. Sincere thanks to Mark Chiarello for rescuing this story from the DC flat files.

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Waited a loooong time for this one. And I love the coloring by Alex Sinclair. He really understood the light sources. Can't wait to see it in the flesh. You can see a 7-page preview here.

Dr. Strangefate, page 11

I love José's design for the tower:

Dr. Strangefate, page 14

As an inker, it was easy to look good, sandwiched between the pencils of José Luis Garcia-Lopez and the coloring of Matt Hollingsworth. Published about 14 years ago, these pages still make me smile...

Skulk SMASH!

Pencils and inks for Doctor Strangefate page 15.  For this DC/Marvel crossover story, "Skulk" was a combination of Solomon Grundy and the Hulk.

Dr. Strangefate, page 1

Script by Ron Marz, pencils by José Luis Garcia-Lopez, inks by me and virtuoso coloring by Matt Hollingsworth.  I love the way Matt kept everything dark and murky – as the setting required – but clearly defined the elements and separated the planes.  He even caught that tiny highlight on the kid's pupil.

Dr. Strangefate, page 5

In hindsight, I should have been intimidated by these pencils but for some reason I wasn't. I guess I realized that they were idiot-proof and that no matter how badly I messed up the pages would still look great.