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Her death at a San Francisco hospital was confirmed by her longtime partner, the superhero comics inker Steve Leialoha, who said she had recently suffered a stroke.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2024

It “used to be a good inker was the best way to elevate a penciler’s work. Nowadays it’s a good colorist,” said Karl Kesel, an inker whose work was first published in 1984.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2019

“Marie Severin did it all — penciler, inker, colorist, character creator,” historian and publisher Craig Yoe, the former creative director of Jim Henson’s Muppets, wrote in an email.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2018

We introduced you to a writer, a penciler, an inker, a letterer, and a colorist.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2017

At the receiver end the message is printed by a Morse inker.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald