I've primarily been an inker in my comic book career. But on occasion, I have done comic book pencils.
Below is a limited selection of some of my comics penciling work throughout the years, some inked by myself or inked by others.
Some are simply in pencil form, before an inker gets to do any embellishment at all.
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Interior double-page spread (above) from Team Titans Annual #1 for DC Comics.
Pencils & inks by Arthur Nichols.
Cover (above left) from Night Thrasher #15 for Marvel Comics.
Cover (above right) from Night Thrasher #16 for Marvel Comics.
Pencils & inks by Arthur Nichols.
Cover (above left) from Sleepwalker #24 for Marvel Comics.
Pencils & inks by Arthur Nichols.
Cover (above right) from Sleepwalker #27 for Marvel Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Klaus Janson & Al Vey.
Cover (above left) from Sleepwalker #32 for Marvel Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Dick Giordano.
Cover (above right) from Team Titans Annual #1 for DC Comics.
Pencils & inks by Arthur Nichols.
As you can see on the 2 covers directly above, I went through a phase where I signed my name as 'RT5¢'.
I'm not kidding.
An editor at DC Comics decided to nickname me 'Artie Fivecents' (get it?), and for a brief time, I tried to make it into a fun way to sign my work. Sadly, I just felt like a pretentious dork. So I stopped that practice right away.
Covers (above) from Magnus Robot Fighter #1-#4 for Valiant Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Bob Layton, colors by JayJay Jackson.
Cover (above left) from Magnus Robot Fighter #5 for Valiant Comics.
Pencils & inks by Arthur Nichols, colors by JayJay Jackson.
Interior page (above right) to Magnus Robot Fighter #2 for Valiant Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Bob Layton.
Preliminary illustration (above) for Magnus Robot Fighter: Steel Nation collected edition reprint for Valiant Comics.
Pencils & inks by Arthur Nichols.
Commission illustration (above) of Magnus Robot Fighter, Solar Man of the Atom & Turok Dinosaur Hunter from the 1990s Valiant Comics.
Pencils & inks by Arthur Nichols.
Interior page (above left) from Night Thrasher #17 for Marvel Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Steve Leialoha.
Cover (above right) from The 'NAM #63 for Marvel Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Josef Rubinstein.
Interior pages (above) from Archer & Armstrong #9 for Valiant Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Bob Wiacek.
Self portrait of me (above left) dealing with deadlines in my art studio back in 1985.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols.
Portfolio illustration (above right) of characters from the role-playing game Vampire Masquerade.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols.
Pencils submission for (above) The Victorian comic book to Penny-Farthing Press.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols.
Interior page (above left) from Team Titans Annual #1 for DC Comics.
Pencils & inks by Arthur Nichols.
Submission pencils (above right) to Marvel Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols.
Cover (above left) to Justice League Europe #9 for DC Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Bart Sears.
Interior page (above right) to Night Thrasher #18 for Marvel Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Josef Rubinstein.
Submission pencils (above) to Marvel Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols.
Entry (above) from Who's Who in the DC Universe for DC Comics.
Pencils by Arthur Nichols, inks by Al Vey.
