Each week in Snapshot, I take a look at one of the main three creative parts of a comic book that can often go unnoticed: inking, colouring, and lettering. This week, a new book by James Tynion IV, Rian...

Every week on Snapshot I try and highlight something interesting going on in comic book art that isn’t your usual penciller or writer. We look at interesting uses of lettering, inking or colouring, and this...

If you’re a reader of Snapshot, you know I like to take a look at a weekly release and focus in one one of three elements not talked about very much in your normal review: inking, colouring or...

We’ve discussed colour and lettering previously, so this week - luckily - the thing that caught my eye was inking. Specifically, Dean Ormston’s work in Black Hammer. It used to be the case that a vast...

Last time we opened up talking about the creators of comics who don’t get as much recognition as the writers and artists do. One of the three jobs I put forward was colourist. In the spirit of that, let’s...

Normally comics criticism focuses on entire series, issues, or (at the very least) pages. However, sometimes you need to devote some space to one very special moment or zero in on one particular element....