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Neal Adams and Sandra Hope, Green Arrow #3 Cover (2016)

Artists: Neal Adams (Penciller) , Sandra Hope (Inker)

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Neal Adams and Sandra Hope, Green Arrow #3 Cover (2016) Comic Art

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Title:	Neal Adams and Sandra Hope, Green Arrow #3 Cover (2016)
Artist:	Neal Adams (Penciller)
Artist:	Sandra Hope (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,198
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	9/29/2020
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Neal Adams had a big year for DC in 2016. In addition to a themed-cover month in February, Neal started drawing the variant covers for the Green Arrow Rebirth series ands drew 17 in a row. Not too shabby, and pretty appropriate, since he created the first Green Arrow �rebirth� 50 years ago.

With a semi-monthly schedule, Neal suddenly had a lot of covers. And� a lot of deadlines. So, most of the covers are inked by diverse group of other artists.

This specific Adams cover � paying tribute to the Mike Grell reboot of the character in 1987�s Longbow Hunters � is inked by the talented (and often underrated) Sandra Hope. The inks are terrific, very complimentary to Neal�s style; you�ll get no argument from Neal himself, who praised the inks to me last year at NYCC. (That praise is no easy feat.)

Her's the rub. It�s inked on a �blue-line� copy of Neal�s pencils. DC sent a digital scan to Sandra, who then printed it out, inked it, scanned it and then sent it back to DC for colors and final production.

When you absolutely, positively have to have it overnight, forget FedEx. Digital is the wave of the present.

The pencils themselves exist on a separate board. Neal has kept them or sold them � doesn�t really matter for this discussion. They exist separately. There are technically no Adams �pencils� on this page.

This subject drives many comic art afficiandos absolutely bananas. Most of us prefer the pencils and inks on the same board. Blue-lines, gray-lines, whatever, for many it seemss �incomplete� if the inks are rendered over pencil copies. After all, it�s the penciller�s illustration that sets the stage for the inker.

But� it�s 2019. Digital is a way of life. We�re fortunate that any material is still created the �traditional� way. And comics are now truly an international profession � we may be dealing with a penciller in Brazil and a separate inker in Romania. No amount of priority shipping is going to solve that deadline crunch.

So yes, I absolutely still prefer a Jack Kirby page that has Mike Royer inks rendered directly over Jack�s original pencils. Or, a Steve Ditko original where I can see the faint pencil lines of his original layouts. Etc.

And I respect that pages with both pencils and inks should, and will always, command a premium price.

But 20 years from now, a kid who loved, say, the Ivan Reis / Joe Prado Man of Steel #1 cover, is going to grow up to be a Wall Street financier. Or a successful Hollywood producer. And he�s going to want the original of the published cover, and not care one whit that Joe inked the cover from Ivan�s digital scan. By then, practically everything will be 90 percent digital, and hand-drawn original comic book art will be a scarce commodity.

And� a killer published cover� is still a killer published cover.

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Foggy Bottom
Member Since 2009
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Posted on 9/29/2020

Baller.

Jovi Neri
Member Since 2011

Posted on 10/8/2020

Very nice! The beauty of this digital technology is that you have a published Neal Adams cover at a fraction of the price just because his pencils are not underneath. And Sandra Hope is awesome! Nice piece!

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