Dexter Vines is an
American comic book artist
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and
inker
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The penciller creates a drawing, the inker outlines, interprets, finalizes, retraces this drawing by using a penc ...
, known for his collaborations with
pencilers such as
Steve McNiven and
Ed McGuinness, the latter of whom he is credited with as "eDex" team.
Career
Vines has worked on a multitude of titles for both
Marvel and
DC. Some titles include Marvel's big 2007 summer event ''
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government polic ...
'', ''
Tangent Comics Power Girl'', ''
Superman/Batman
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'', ''
JLA Classified'' (all with McGuiness), and ''
Wolverine
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''.
Awards
* 2007 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - ''Nominee'' - Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team: (Civil War (Marvel) - with Steve McNiven)
* 2012, Vines received the 2012
Inkwell Award for Favorite Small Press And Mainstream-Independent (S.P.A.M.I.) ink work over another pencil artist.
"2012 Winners"
Inkwell Awards. June 25, 2012
References
External links
*
*
An Audio Interview with Dexter Vines
by SiDEBAR
Living people
African-American comics creators
American comics creators
Artists from Atlanta
1971 births
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
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