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Post by Warmonger on May 22, 2016 10:28:58 GMT -5
For all things Big John
My personal favorite comic book artist of all-time. I acknowledge Kirby's greatness and he's certainly the master innovator of the comics realm, but I've always thought Buscema was the overall best artist in the medium and I doubt my opinion will ever change.
With that said...post your favorite Buscema sketches, panels, your own personal tales of how his artwork has effected you, etc.
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Post by Warmonger on May 22, 2016 10:33:09 GMT -5
The legendary Silver Surfer #4, arguably Buscema's most famous cover and easily one of my personal favorites.  Still think no one could draw the Surfer like Big John, not even Kirby. |
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Post by Warmonger on May 22, 2016 10:38:34 GMT -5
From Savage Sword #12  LOVE the detail in the skeletons and cobwebs |
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Post by Warmonger on May 22, 2016 10:41:20 GMT -5
Buscema drawing and inking Cap and Sienkiewicz drawing and inking Elektra
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Post by Ozymandias on May 22, 2016 10:54:09 GMT -5
From Savage Sword #12 LOVE the detail in the skeletons and cobwebs That was Alcalá's trademark. Out of all the inkers he teamed up with, I liked this one the best. Inking was very important, because he had a very academic style, which is like saying he didn't have any. The inker was the one responsible, for giving the final product some distinctiveness. |
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Post by Warmonger on May 22, 2016 11:00:00 GMT -5
From Savage Sword #12 LOVE the detail in the skeletons and cobwebs That was Alcalá's trademark. Out of all the inkers he teamed up with, I liked this one the best. Inking was very important, because he had a very academic style, which is like saying he didn't have any. The inker was the one responsible, for giving the final product some distinctiveness. Yep I know Buscema supposedly considered Tom Palmer the best inker on his work, but to me it was hands down Alcala. |
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Post by shaxper on May 22, 2016 11:20:05 GMT -5
Acala needs his own appreciation thread. My favorite inker ever, aside from some pencilers who ink themselves.
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Post by hondobrode on May 22, 2016 11:21:15 GMT -5
 This is similar to a poster I had as a kid from the Mighty Marvel Con 1975 that Big John drew. His Conan is the definitive version for me and his rendition of the Avengers, along with Tom Palmer inks, are right up there as well. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 22, 2016 11:25:47 GMT -5
John is famous for hating the work of most of his inkers. I had assumed that he disliked inkers whose own style was different from his own because they overwhelmed his clean and classic pencils : certainly, the lush work of Chan and Alcala makes the final result look like Chan and Alcala more than Buscema. But then John liked the work of Tom Palmer, Steve Gan and Tony DeZuniga, whose respective styles don't look like John's either... So I'm puzzled as to why he liked certain inkers and not others.
For my money, the Buscema-Alcala team was a beautiful case of synergy. The two men brought something different to the art, and it looked better in the end than the sum of its parts.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 22, 2016 11:26:04 GMT -5
That was Alcalá's trademark. Out of all the inkers he teamed up with, I liked this one the best. Inking was very important, because he had a very academic style, which is like saying he didn't have any. The inker was the one responsible, for giving the final product some distinctiveness. Yep I know Buscema supposedly considered Tom Palmer the best inker on his work, but to me it was hands down Alcala. I would name Palmer as Buscema's best inker, but only for comics to be printed in colour. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 22, 2016 12:19:54 GMT -5
For all things Big John My personal favorite comic book artist of all-time. I acknowledge Kirby's greatness and he's certainly the master innovator of the comics realm, but I've always thought Buscema was the overall best artist in the medium and I doubt my opinion will ever change.
With that said...post your favorite Buscema sketches, panels, your own personal tales of how his artwork has effected you, etc. I Totally second this emotion . Here comes mrp...  |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 22, 2016 12:25:32 GMT -5
I remember reading that John liked his brother Sals, inks best.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 22, 2016 12:29:56 GMT -5
This is one of my favorite all time splash pages.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 22, 2016 16:48:38 GMT -5
I only wish he could have inked himself more often. Buscema was a worthy successor to Hal Foster as a draftsman, but he combined that with a Kirbyesque, action-oriented style, and I think it showed best when he inked himself. I never cared for Ernie Chan inking Big John; he made Conan look short-armed and stocky. I loved Alacala on certain kinds of stories, but felt he overdid the Gustave Dore effect too often and made the panels less dynamic and more like posed scenes. Loved Joe Sinnott, Tom Palmer and George Klein inking him on super-hero stuff.    |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 22, 2016 16:50:38 GMT -5
Because my first encounter with Big John was His FF run, I am partial to Joe Sinnott Inking his work.
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