There’s a gag in Chasing Amy about comic book inkers. It’s funny if you know what they’re talking about. For most comic books, the artwork is drawn first by the penciller, then given to the inker to go over the work and add form and defintion to it. It’s an important process, in part just because it takes most of a month to pencil one issue so it’s hard for a penciller to ink his own work and meet his deadlines. Once the inker is done it gets colored, these days usually also involving some computer special effects like gradiants. Getting back to Chasing Amy, the joke is that all inkers do is trace the pencils, so they’re really just tracers. The Pulse has nice examples of the process from an issue of Identity Crisis that shows how imporant each step is. Pencils are by Rags Morales.