Here’s another treat for the kids out there who’ve always wanted to find out how a comic book page is made.

The page in question is of course from LOLA: A Ghost Story. I also wrote another article about how LOLA is produced with very detailed descriptions of the various steps in the production process.

Click here to read it. Anyway, back to the subject at hand…

Most inkers are thought of as tracers by people not intimately familiar with how a comic book is produced. As a result, we’re frequently thought of as less than the pencillers because all we do is supposedly follow the lines that they’ve already laid down, which is not always the case.

While admittedly there are pencillers who draw in a very tight and clean style leaving little interpretation by the inker, the comic book drawing process is more often than not a collaborative one where both penciller and inker draw upon each other’s strengths in order to produce artwork that tells a story.

The sequence is as follows: 1) Pencils by Elbert Or, 2) inks by Jonas Diego, and 3) cleanup and compositing by Neil Amiel Cervantes.

Click on the thumbnail for the bigger image.

The Pencils

I knew, even from seeing it for the first time, that the page had a lot of potential.

I had Elbert draw a few more people because there was a gaping empty space at the bottom left hand of the page. I just composited the added pencilled people, printed the whole thing in nice stock paper in no-repro red, and pencilled in a few more stuff that I felt that the page needed.

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