Monday, January 9, 2012  1984 - Thor sketches  By Joe Sinnott
By Walt Simonson     1. Wonder why Sinnott never drew anything
himself? It's obvious he was a solid illustrator.    2. Hey Pj,
you're absolutely correct. That's a good question I'll have to
follow up on... :)    3. "And around 1961, Jack Kirby didn’t do
his own inking, and he asked me if I could fill in and do a Jack
Kirby. He couldn’t find anyone to ink it, and so I inked it, and
Stan liked it quite a bit. He liked the combination. So it
progressed from there, and Stan just kept sending me more Jack
Kirby stuff, and I felt I could make as much inking as I could
penciling, so I proceeded to ink primarily for Stan."    4. Back
when I was an art student (School of Visual Arts in NYC) circa
1986-1987, I had a friend/classmate who was a friend/acolyte of
Walt Simonson and he took me to Simonson's NYC studio (which he
shared with one or two other artists - although, I can't recall
who now).      This was obviously during Walt's famed THOR run,
and on h