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Post by Jesse on May 3, 2014 17:17:55 GMT -5
Good choice. Hal Foster never gets enough credit for his influence on sequential art. Very consistent artist. I wonder how in the world he was able to get reference for a lot of the images he drew for Prince Valiant. Especially from certain angles. Few artists understand composition the way Foster did. I've been meaning to check out his Tarzan for some time.
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Post by Miss Fantastic on May 3, 2014 17:22:59 GMT -5
Too many Artists to name just one but if you put a gun to my head I would have to choose Big John Buscema.Getting my 'natch'es in Jack Kirby and John Byrne* out of the way...rounding out the trinity of my three utmost favorite Fantastic Four artists is not and never has been easy. My third place has always alternated between George Perez, Keith Pollard, and of course, the one and only John Buscema. But at the end of the day, I just might have to give Buscema the edge because of not only being one of THE greats to work on FF and a ton of Marvel titles period, but also he did one of the most famous beyond famous 'charge shots' of the FF that's been featured on mass marketing paraphenelia on/off through the years. And IMO, for a quite good reason... Another Buscema favorite of mine... ...and to the point where I utilized it in some graphic art I put together when I was about fifteen/sixteen years old, around 2000ish. Still use it on/off as wallpaper on various devices to this day. * - Who honestly are practically tied first place together. And while I more than thoroughly respect and admire Kirby for what he did for the Fantastic Four and Marvel in general, there are some days I'd just about put Byrne a smidge over him for his FF #232-256 art, but only just about...I could never completely do that to the King.
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Post by benday-dot on May 3, 2014 18:53:37 GMT -5
I have to give an honorable mention to Sal Buscema. He's still my favorite Hulk artist (the Hulk being my favorite Marvel character). I think what I loved most about Sal's Hulk is how expressive he was. I have to give the nod to Herb Trimpe as best ever Hulk artist, although I do have a lot of affection for Sal Buscema's as well. I much prefer Sal on Hulk to Sal on Spider-Man. Of course Kirby does a hell of an angry monster rendition of Hulk.
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Post by benday-dot on May 3, 2014 18:55:21 GMT -5
I never saw how Unbelievable Hal Foster was until your post. Wow! You need to get your hands on Fantagraphics newest printing of the Prince Valiant library. Foster never looked better.
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Post by benday-dot on May 3, 2014 19:00:21 GMT -5
My faves are, in not necessarily the order listed with the exception of Kirby at top:
1. Jack Kirby 2. Joe Kubert 3. Wally Wood 4. Steve Ditko 5. Alex Toth 6. Bill Everett 7. Gene Colan 8. Will Eisner 9. Al Williamson 10.Barry Windsor-Smith (for Conan) 11. Michael Kaluta 12. Richard Corben
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Post by MWGallaher on May 3, 2014 19:30:31 GMT -5
If I had to list 10, the first 10 I would think of would be:
Jim Aparo Jack Kirby Dan Spiegle Bill Everett Jaime Hernandez Herb Trimpe Alfredo Alcala Wally Wood Mike Kaluta Berni Wrightson Richard Corben
A few of those even surprised me when I just now pressed to name 10.
Perhaps related: Whenever I ask myself to "think of a (specific) comic book story", the first one that comes to my mind is "Who Is Scorpio?" by Jim Steranko.
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Post by Randle-El on May 3, 2014 21:45:17 GMT -5
John Byrne gets a sentimental vote from me because he illustrated one of my single favorite panels that I read as a kid: And also because he illustrated one of my single favorite issues that I read as a kid: His images of the X-Men (along with Cockrum's) are the ones I tend to recall whenever I think of the characters.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 21:56:05 GMT -5
Too many Artists to name just one but if you put a gun to my head I would have to choose Big John Buscema.Getting my 'natch'es in Jack Kirby and John Byrne* out of the way...rounding out the trinity of my three utmost favorite Fantastic Four artists is not and never has been easy. My third place has always alternated between George Perez, Keith Pollard, and of course, the one and only John Buscema. But at the end of the day, I just might have to give Buscema the edge because of not only being one of THE greats to work on FF and a ton of Marvel titles period, but also he did one of the most famous beyond famous 'charge shots' of the FF that's been featured on mass marketing paraphenelia on/off through the years. And IMO, for a quite good reason... Another Buscema favorite of mine... ...and to the point where I utilized it in some graphic art I put together when I was about fifteen/sixteen years old, around 2000ish. Still use it on/off as wallpaper on various devices to this day. * - Who honestly are practically tied first place together. And while I more than thoroughly respect and admire Kirby for what he did for the Fantastic Four and Marvel in general, there are some days I'd just about put Byrne a smidge over him for his FF #232-256 art, but only just about...I could never completely do that to the King. I think this image is John Romita Sr.
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Post by Action Ace on May 3, 2014 21:57:58 GMT -5
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Post by Miss Fantastic on May 3, 2014 22:36:55 GMT -5
Getting my 'natch'es in Jack Kirby and John Byrne* out of the way...rounding out the trinity of my three utmost favorite Fantastic Four artists is not and never has been easy. My third place has always alternated between George Perez, Keith Pollard, and of course, the one and only John Buscema. But at the end of the day, I just might have to give Buscema the edge because of not only being one of THE greats to work on FF and a ton of Marvel titles period, but also he did one of the most famous beyond famous 'charge shots' of the FF that's been featured on mass marketing paraphenelia on/off through the years. And IMO, for a quite good reason... Another Buscema favorite of mine... ...and to the point where I utilized it in some graphic art I put together when I was about fifteen/sixteen years old, around 2000ish. Still use it on/off as wallpaper on various devices to this day. * - Who honestly are practically tied first place together. And while I more than thoroughly respect and admire Kirby for what he did for the Fantastic Four and Marvel in general, there are some days I'd just about put Byrne a smidge over him for his FF #232-256 art, but only just about...I could never completely do that to the King. I think this image is John Romita Sr. I knew Romita Sr. did the front for Marvel Treasury Edition #2, but was never completely sure if he did the back too. I'm not the only one who thinks Buscema did the back...Longbox Graveyard states him here too. But with that said, if I had pick an artist I wish had drawn the FF more than he did in his career, it would without hesitance be Romita Sr., who I wish had a more regular run than the several (BRILLIANT) issues he did after Kirby left. Also have always loved the aforementioned Treasury front cover... ...as well as Byrne's homage to it.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 22:54:59 GMT -5
I think this image is John Romita Sr. I knew Romita Sr. did the front for Marvel Treasury Edition #2, but was never completely sure if he did the back too. I'm not the only one who thinks Buscema did the back...Longbox Graveyard states him here too. But with that said, if I had pick an artist I wish had drawn the FF more than he did in his career, it would without hesitance be Romita Sr., who I wish had a more regular run than the several (BRILLIANT) issues he did after Kirby left. Also have always loved the aforementioned Treasury front cover... I loved the Romita Issues of FF 3
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2014 0:50:01 GMT -5
There are a number of great artists mentioned in this thread already. As a kid, George Perez and Jim Starlin were the artists I gravitated through. As I got older, Frank Frazetta, Will Eisner and Joe Kubert are the two who rule the roost for me, though my love of Perez and Starlin has not diminished.
Other artists whose work I treasure...
Frank Brunner P. Craig Russell Michael Kaluta Howard Chaykin Walt Simonson Gene Colan Mike Grell Moebius Alan Davis Mike Mignola Paul Smith
as well as the Kirby, Ditko, Buscema, Adams, JLGL crowd mentioned several times already. -M
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 4, 2014 1:07:37 GMT -5
Speaking of Hal Foster; I only left him off the list because he's a comic strip artist. Of course there was no rule against comic strip artists and I notice that I included Will Eisner! Obviously, Hal Foster would easily make my list. His illustrative skill was simply astounding. I hope Fantagraphics gets the first volume of Prince Valiant back in print soon, because its the only thing stopping me from collecting the series.
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 4, 2014 1:09:44 GMT -5
I have to give an honorable mention to Sal Buscema. He's still my favorite Hulk artist (the Hulk being my favorite Marvel character). I think what I loved most about Sal's Hulk is how expressive he was. I have to give the nod to Herb Trimpe as best ever Hulk artist, although I do have a lot of affection for Sal Buscema's as well. I much prefer Sal on Hulk to Sal on Spider-Man. Of course Kirby does a hell of an angry monster rendition of Hulk. I've grown to appreciate Trimpe, but Sal will always be the definitive Hulk artist for me. I didn't like Trimpe when I first started collecting comics, but I like his work a lot now of course. (Hell, I didn't like Kirby as a 10 year old! Now I ADORE Kirby)
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 4, 2014 4:15:21 GMT -5
I think this image is John Romita Sr. I knew something felt off about that image. Definitely Marvel house style, but it doesn't seem like Buscema's. Reed Richard's lips kind of give it away. Buscema had a distinct style with lips. Especially from profile view.
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