Talent doesn’t factor in the equation for ambition

Ambition

Small Tales

Source image by Vadim Sherbakov

Joe worked through the night, drafting panel after panel, starting with the pencils — roughing out shapes, then refining them into characters and objects, then shading with crosshatching, and finally inking each masterpiece of comic art. Once that was done, he lettered the dialogue carefully, making sure every form was…