Lately Gil Kane has been on my mind. I've always liked Kane's art. Very distinctive anatomy, instantly recognizable unless deliberately inked not to be so. Few things I love more in comics than a Kane self-inked cover. Today I learned he inked a lot of his own late-period work with markers. So a number of different blogs tell me, anyway.
It makes me respect Kane even more. When you check out the lines-- the actual strokes-- on the printed covers there's little that indicates he worked with markers. Maybe a little bit of same-width quality in the diagonal lines he used sometimes for tone. Or maybe I just never really considered the tools Kane used for his finishes, which are crisp and altogether pleasing to the eye. If I ink with a marker, it looks like a fool used a marker. Lengthy moves, such as the curve along a character's thigh, for example, sometimes appear shaky or are too obviously made up of two arcs poorly joined. With Gil Kane, the same areas just look...
Gil Kane-ish.
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