RV: How did you first become involved with inking?
GM: I started out just inking my own pencils, using brushes and pens. I have a stockpile of old pages I inked from way back. I picked up digital inking when I began to see a few people using the method and getting some good results. I got me a copy of Illustrator and began to fiddle around with it. I posted a few of my new digital inks over at Digital Webbing and got some mixed reviews. By then though I was hooked on it. I was inking everything I could get my hands on and download.
RV: What type of genre penciled art do you prefer inking?
GM: I don't really have a preference. I like pencils without a lot of feathering the most. Simply because It's easier for me to ink. I like pencils that have a high level of detail on the objects in the panel.
RV: How is it inking over Dwayne Biddix's pencils?
GM: I love it. I started inking over Dwayne not to long after I started inking digitally. He's style is loose enough to let me add in a little bit of my own views and artistic choices. Before I started inking "Captor of Toments" ,which Dwayne was penciling, I can honestly say I was just a tracer. I began developing my own style while inking Dwayne's pencils. It's also challenging trying to keep up with him. Dewayne is getting better fast and I have to work my ass off to keep pace.
RV: What do you think about as you work?
GM: Mostly, "CRAP!!! CTRL Z!!! CRAP!!! CTRL Z!!!" I mess up a lot.
RV: Have you worked on any other comics?
GM: I've inked a cover here and there. I inked "RIP 0" for Portal Productions. I've done work for Blue Water on their "Legend of Isis" and I'm doing a little 8 page "G. I. Joe" story for Devil's Due. I also did a 3 page story for Ronin Studios in their Katrina relief book "Hope".
RV: What exactly is inking?
GM: I see inking as building a house. Pencilers are the architects, they provide blueprints and notes about how certain objects should relate to one another. That's why I see their job as more important than Inkers, but without Inkers nobody's there to build the buildings. Inkers take all the information from the Pencilers and construct a solid three dimensional building. We add shadows and weight to objects. Create space and add textures. We make the blueprint solid.
RV: Would you like to or do you do pencil work?
GM: I love to pencil. I have a few stories in me that I want to get out. Might be a long time in the making but I'll get around to it.
RV: Would you like to work for one of the big two comic companies?
GM: I want more than anything to ink an issue of "Amazing Spider-Man"
RV: What about "Morbid Myths" do you think will attract fans?
GM: My inking, lol. No really I can't think what will attract another person to this book. I only know that the feel of the book is similar to the old horror comics I found at a flea market when I was a kid. Full of ghosts and strange stories that you just want to read over and over.
RV: What do you do with any spare time you have?
GM: Spare time? What's that?
RV: What comics did you read as a child and do you read now?
GM: I read everything I could get my hands on. The first comic I read was "Amazing Spider-Man 332" Venom just grabbed my attention and I was hooked. I bought everything from "X-Men" to "SlapStick" One of my all time favorites comics was "Darkhawk".
RV: If you could have one super power what would it be and why?
GM: Time travel. So I could get some of that "spare time" you were talking about.
RV: How can someone contact you?
GM: That depends. Do I owe you money? I have a deviant site, www.dubbery.deviantart.com and a blog, www.dubbery.com email me at dubbery@comcast.net
RV: Any final words of wisdom?
GM: Y'all go easy on us digital inkers. If not, when we take over the world you will receive no pity. lol Just kidding don't go getting all crazy on me now. I'm just asking for a shot.
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