I didn't know anything about him before he started working with Mike Deodato on "Amazing Spider-Man" for Marvel. He's from Brazil, and he excels at his job. He is also, hands down, the single best person for inking the work of Mike Deodato, and I include Deodato himself in that list.
Here's a few pages of his work.
This is New Avengers 19, pages 20-21. I love how Pimentel's work resonates with Deodato's on this double page spread (as always, pages shown here are for sale at the time they're posted (unless otherwise stated specifically), over at our online store, www.artandcomicsstore.com ; and if you click on the image itself, you can see a much larger version.)
This is a cover re-creation of Amazing Spider-Man 512, pencilled by Deodato, and inked by Pimentel. I really wish you could have seen some of the interior pages from that series. But those pages were sold long ago.
However, I can show you the next best thing....
The above graphic is scanned from Amazing Spider-Man 526, story pages 11-12. Pencilled by Mike Deodato, inked by Joe Pimentel, color by Matt Milla, lettered by VC's Cory Petit, from a story written by Reginald Hudlin, and published by Marvel Comics. This is during Spidey's final battle with Morlun, which had a truly shocking ending! I had the original art in my hands, and was trying to figure out how many people would be annoyed at me if I bought it for myself. I behaved and sold it to another person.
Tons of people know who Mike Deodato is, and rightly so. Comparatively few know who Joe Pimentel is, and that's NOT right.
We've occasionally had samples done solo by Joe for sale at our online store, but we're all sold out at this time. Check in occasionally and see what's there!
So here's to another great example of why we need all the great inkers we can get!
Mike
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