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Post by DubipR on Aug 19, 2022 11:02:59 GMT -5
From Tom's FB page:
"We are very sad to share the news that legendary comic book inker and artist Tom Palmer passed away on August 18, 2022 at the age of 81. He will be remembered fondly by his loving family and his many fans."
What a sad day. I never got to meet him in all the years of doing conventions but his work with Gene Colan on Tomb of Dracula are some of my favorite comics from him. A great master of the ink. He will be missed
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Post by MDG on Aug 19, 2022 11:19:08 GMT -5
Too bad--Palmer really enhanced most of the artists he worked with, and he's the best of the handful of inkers who really knew how to handle Colan.
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Post by badwolf on Aug 19, 2022 11:21:57 GMT -5
Probably in my top three inkers, along with Terry Austin and Josef Rubinstein.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 19, 2022 11:45:27 GMT -5
Sad day. He’s on the Mount Rushmore of inkers.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 19, 2022 11:53:45 GMT -5
Tom Palmer will be missed. My favorite inker for Gene Colan and Neal Adams. Sometimes his inks on others made it look more like a Tom Palmer job rather than the penciller. And sometimes that was a good thing
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 19, 2022 11:58:14 GMT -5
Hands down the best inker for Gene Colan. And one of the best inkers ever in general.
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Post by james on Aug 19, 2022 12:02:19 GMT -5
RIP. Could this be his most Iconic piece? I remember getting this as a tshirt and wearing it until it fell apart
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Post by Farrar on Aug 19, 2022 12:05:20 GMT -5
RIP. Could this be his most Iconic piece? I remember getting this as a tshirt and wearing it until it fell apart Not by Tom. Inked by Sal, John Buscema pencils.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 19, 2022 12:08:10 GMT -5
Either he was born in 1941 or he was 80 years old.
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Post by Farrar on Aug 19, 2022 12:09:09 GMT -5
RIP Tom Palmer. Superstar artist--a superlative inker for Adams, J. Buscema, Colan and everyone else. Also a talented colorist (X-Men, Avengers). I never had the pleasure of meeting him but he comes off as a nice guy in interviews.
He was born in July 1942, so he just turned 80 a month ago. Not sure why FB says 81. ETA: chaykinstevens, I saw that and wondered about that too.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 19, 2022 12:12:46 GMT -5
RIP. Could this be his most Iconic piece? I remember getting this as a tshirt and wearing it until it fell apart That isn't Palmer. It's John Buscema, inked by his brother Sal. Sorry.
I agree 100% that Tom Palmer was the best inker to ever work over Gene Colan and Neal Adams, and I'll add Don Heck to that list. I also thought he did right by John Buscema, especially that long stretch they did on Avengers in the mid-1980s. He was also a damned fine artist on his own. What a sad loss.
Cei-U! I summon a moment of silence!
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Post by badwolf on Aug 19, 2022 13:01:35 GMT -5
Of course, he was a pretty great artist in his own right too, like when he finished Howard Chaykin's minimal layouts in early issues of Star Wars.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 19, 2022 13:02:05 GMT -5
Oh, man. Really sad news. A truly peerless inker. RIP.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 19, 2022 14:37:28 GMT -5
Palmer made the best pencillers look even better. (BTW, he had turned 81 on July 13.)
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Post by Farrar on Aug 19, 2022 14:43:28 GMT -5
Palmer made the best pencillers look even better. (BTW, he had turned 81 on July 13.) Hmm, interesting. Someone must have just updated his Wikipedia page to show 1941 as his birth year...earlier today, it read 1942 (as it does in online sources). And in his interview last year with the Comic Book Historians, he gave his birth year as 1942. ETA: Just watched the interview again (it's on YouTube--great interview), and it's the interviewer who says says "1942" and Palmer doesn't correct him or disagree. At any rate, whether he was 80 or 81, it's a great loss.
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