Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A draughtsman; one who uses a pencil in any way, as a writer or a reporter: specifically, in racing slang, a bookmaker's clerk.
Wiktionary
- n. In comic book production, a person who develops the plot and creative content of a comic book, and draws an outline to be filled in by an inker.
Examples
“He's very good, much better than the other people who'd come to me, and he's not only good, he appreciated that my penciler is fucking brilliant and that his inks are only going to punch the pages up * just* that little bit more.”
“Writer Mike Carey has been building up to this saga for months — and new series penciler Tyler Kirkham (NEW AVENGERS/TRANSFORMERS) has arrived to kick off the action!”
Marvel Solicitations for January 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
“The writer must have told the penciler “Short explanatory scene to start; fill out the rest of the comic with thrashing the Bay Area.””
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » A brief review of Gigantic #1
“Writer/penciler Tony Daniel focuses on Robin and Nightwing, but he throws the Knight, the Squire, and Damian into the mix without explaining who any of them are.”
What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
“The penciler tries to draw - and improve upon - the panel-by-panel descriptions of the writer.”
Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Still, we do not know how much effort each job requires – if the penciler painstakingly prepares illustrations for one novel while the writer churns out the plans for three, the job suddenly looks less glamorous than the 40% figure suggests.”
Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“For starters, there is the division of labor between writer and penciler.”
Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“My grandfather was a penciler in one of the comics assembly lines.”
Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But the penciler rarely does all the artwork himself.”
Division of Labor in Graphic Novels, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I have no idea what their contract with Quebecor calls for (who I understand is struggling with bankruptcy right now) but printing 5000 copies of a 32 page full color comic would use up most of that and we haven't even mentioned writer, penciler, inker, letterer or production department salaries or corporate overhead yet.”
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lyric when a penciler is promoted is he a red penciler? or does he become an inker? that might take an mba or course. May 1, 2008