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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 31, 2023 7:38:07 GMT -5
My vote is other for Travis Charest. Almost ever on-going title he's in, it's either only for a few issues or its sporadic. Which is a shame because it art had such amazing detail, I think more so than any artist I've seen save maybe Mobeius. Though I am sure there are plenty artists with great detailed art that I am either forgetting or am ignorant of.
Would Berni Wrightson be considered in this category? Off the top of my head the longest monthly book I can think of he did was Swamp Thing.
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 31, 2023 7:42:13 GMT -5
Wrightson could not sustain an ongoing monthly. But when he did mini-series like The Cult, he did not seem to have a problem finishing them on time. He did a lot of work that did not fit into the monthly comic mold.
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Post by badwolf on Jul 31, 2023 8:48:49 GMT -5
I thought this was going to be about artists who were so slow that they couldn't do or rarely did monthly comics, instead working on specials or covers. Arthur Adams came to mind, then Brian Bolland. I'm not sure what makes some of these other artists slow. Dave Cockrum did long runs of monthlies.
I vote for art. I don't like his early work any more, but his more recent work is amazing.
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Post by MDG on Jul 31, 2023 8:50:18 GMT -5
Wrightson could not sustain an ongoing monthly. But when he did mini-series like The Cult, he did not seem to have a problem finishing them on time. He did a lot of work that did not fit into the monthly comic mold. Actually, the first name that came to my mind was one of Wrightson's contemporaries who, like he and Kaluta, produced excellent work but didn't seem suited to a long-term monthly commitment, especially with full-length stories: Alan Weiss. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 31, 2023 8:57:24 GMT -5
Weiss had a very profitable sideline drawing pornographic comics for mens' magazines, which is why his work on newsstans comics is so sparse.
Cei-U!
I summon the naughty noodling!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 31, 2023 10:10:32 GMT -5
Weiss had a very profitable sideline drawing pornographic comics for mens' magazines, which is why his work on newsstans comics is so sparse. Cei-U! I summon the naughty noodling! Is there anything you don’t know? I never knew Weiss drew naughty pictures. |
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Post by badwolf on Jul 31, 2023 10:17:29 GMT -5
Weiss had a very profitable sideline drawing pornographic comics for mens' magazines, which is why his work on newsstans comics is so sparse. Cei-U! I summon the naughty noodling! Is there anything you don’t know? I never knew Weiss drew naughty pictures. Tigra and Nightshade sure looked nice...  |
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 31, 2023 10:19:44 GMT -5
I bet the market could accomidate an Alan Weiss Naughty Comic collection.   |
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Post by berkley on Aug 4, 2023 15:32:50 GMT -5
I voted Steranko but might possibly change have picked "other" if I could make up my mind what is meant by slow artist. I tend to think of anyone who had trouble keeping up with a monthly series, which for me would invclude a lot of the new generation of artists that came to prominence in the early '70s, e.g. Wrightson, BWS, Frank Brunner, Craig Russell, etc. But that doesn't seem to be what icctrombone intended so I picked my favourite from the names listed in the poll.
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Post by MDG on Aug 7, 2023 11:04:34 GMT -5
Going back a couple of decades from most of the folks on the list, Johnny Craig, at EC, had a definite rep as a notoriously slow artist, and he got slower as things went on. His explanation was that he had little or no formal art training, so he'd have to draw something, erase it, and draw it again before he was satisfied. It might take him a couple weeks or more to do an 8-page story, as opposed to Jack Davis who could "bash it out" in 3 days.
I don't know if he got over this later, but, apart from his short stint on Iron man, he was never a "regular artist" again (working mainly in commercial art).
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