1983 - New Mutants - pencils and inks
Bob McLeod: "1983 New Mutants #7 page 6 Sal Buscema breakdowns. Download to enlarge. By issue #3, I was so rushed drawing the New Mutants that I was doing mostly breakdowns, and I just didn't like the way the book looked. I didn't have time to give my inker enough to work with. I quit penciling the book because I thought I could control the look of the book better by inking someone's else's breakdowns, so Sal took over as breakdown artist and I took over the inks. And I do mean "took over"."
Yeeeeesh. Had I only seen the finished page, there's no way I would ever imagine Buscema did the breakdowns. It's weird, though, because it seems like McLeod did just as much work as if he would have just done roughs as well.
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