Dallas-Fort Worth’s Quick spotlights local artist Michael Lark, who explains how an issue of Daredevil comes together, thanks in part to the wonders of the Internet:
Lark, a Dallas resident, is the penciller for Marvel Comics’ Daredevil . But writer Ed Brubaker lives in Seattle. Inker Stefano Gaudiano recently moved to Seattle from Italy. And colorist Matt Hollingsworth just moved from California to Croatia.
Such an arrangement was unheard of in the days of Marvel’s famed “bullpen.” That was the name for the area of the publisher’s New York headquarters where artists worked side by side, handing each other their “boards,” i.e. pages, to finish.
Now, creators are free to live wherever they choose because they can transmit their work to each other – and their editors – via e-mail. “Most people are turning in their work digitally these days,” Lark said. “Because if we sent them the boards, they’d just be scanning them in anyway.”
Lark also gives a peek behind the scenes of Daredevil #93, showing a three-panel sequence from script to pencils to the final product.
