Artist Spotlight

After high school, Bob attended UMass Dartmouth with a major in illustration. He scored well on his senior project - a graphic novel of a sci-fi/fantasy/horror anthology done with sequential art storytelling. In 1990, he graduated with a BFA in Illustration (and got married to boot). Bob then collected rejection slips for the next two years before going pro with the aid of Bernie Wrightson and Jim Starlin. Bob had been an attendee at the annual Wrightson Halloween bash since being invited after he interviewed Bernie over the telephone for a college project. Bob was able to display his work to Bernie's pal, Jim Starlin, who in turn convinced his editor to hire Bob to work on WARLOCK AND THE INFINITY WATCH in 1992 when Terry Austin left the series.

After two years on that first comic, Bob moved onward to other projects but has done some work for Marvel every year since. His work has also appeared in various titles put out by such groups as Penny-Farthing Press, Malibu and Acclaim Comics. He has also done projects for DC Comics and other publishers. Currently, Bob is the inking half of the art team on Marvel's critically-acclaimed BLACK PANTHER series teamed up with his regular collaborator Sal Velluto. He currently resides in New Bedford, Massachusettes with his family (wife Diane and son Nathan) and Coco the cat.

In addition to Sal Velluto and George Perez, some of Bob's favorite artists are John Byrne, Frank Miller, Michael Golden, Klaus Janson, Joe Rubenstein, Terry Austin, Neal Adams, Jim Starlin, Jim Steranko, Mark Farmer, Tom Palmer, Bob Layton, Adam Hughes, Bernie Wrightson, Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Carlos Pacheco, Jeff Jones, Alex Ross and many others as well.

LINKS:

*BLACK PANTHER RELATED

THE BOB ALMOND INKWELL (among other stuff, art for sale here)
http://www.almondink.com

BLACK PANTHER- ARTISTIC IMPRESSIONS
http://www.cgriffen.com/blackpanther/

BP MESSAGE BOARD
http://www.comicboards.net/blackpanther/

DIGITAL PRIEST: THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
http://home.att.net/~digital-priest/

SAL VELLUTO'S ART SOUP
http://www.velluto.com

SUPPORT THE BLACK PANTHER
http://www.starpilotcomics.com/blackpanther/support.html

THE WAKANDAN EMBASSY
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/2888/Entry.html

BLACK PANTHER FAN CLUB
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/blackpantherofwakanda

BLACK PANTHER: EVOLUTION
https://www.angelfire.com/comics/blackpanther/Main.html

*INTERVIEWS AND SHOP TALK

http://www.comicboards.com/interviews/almond.html

http://www.cgriffen.com/blackpanther/interview/almond/index.html

http://www.taskmastersite.com/Interviews/Almond.html

http://www.geocities.com/ddegraci/fbp/BP13.htm

http://www.geocities.com/ddegraci/fbp/BP27cov.htm

http://www.geocities.com/ddegraci/fbp/BP27.htm

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