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Post by Farrar on May 21, 2020 16:17:09 GMT -5
I know some post here a few times and never post again. I am wondering about those like @mrjupiter who posted frequently then abruptly stopped. I believe he stopped about a year ago. Why not send him a personal message? I don't think he would mind; in my experience people tend to be flattered when someone notices they're been gone for a while. Note, not everyone has that PM notification turned on (or they turn it off). So it's not guaranteed he'll be notified, but it's worth a shot.
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Post by Farrar on May 21, 2020 10:49:08 GMT -5
I nominate MDG. He looks at things with the eyes of both an artist and a historian. He knows a lot obviously but he doesn't have a brash in-your-face style, he just comes in and makes observations that are so perfect you think "Yeah, that's what I meant!" A couple of examples: when he characterized Curt Swan's art as "idealized realism." Or "For some reason, Elias Black Cat art of that period connects with me more than any Atom Age hero work (excepting Eisner's postwar Spirit.)" As you can tell, I have jotted down many of his observations. I'm hard to impress, but I always learn something new and valuable from his posts. And he's succinct. His posts don't meander, they are always right on the money without being dry. They're not only informational but they're well-written, a pleasure to read.
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Post by Farrar on May 21, 2020 10:44:38 GMT -5
I'll gladly second Crimebuster.
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Post by Farrar on May 20, 2020 8:07:42 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on May 20, 2020 8:01:16 GMT -5
^^^ Yes, like many pencilers he wasn't very pleased by what strong inkers who had their own distinct styles (like Sinnott or Murphy Anderson) did to his pencils. He's said he preferred someone like Sid Greene because when Greene inked him Kane still "saw everything that I had put down in pencil" (as he stated AE #149 and elsewhere). Btw anyone ever read "His Name is Kane" from House of Mystery #180? Here's the first page. The whole story can be found here at this blog. Kane inked by Wally Wood!
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Post by Farrar on May 19, 2020 21:07:26 GMT -5
Hoosier X
Simple yet striking cover and inked by Kane to boot.
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Post by Farrar on May 18, 2020 20:20:18 GMT -5
Okay, look I know this (below) is a tried-and-true traditional standard stock pose that a gazillion or so artists have used since practically forever, so I won't call it a swipe but I've long loved this Roy Carnon cover. And seeing it recently in another thread here just reminded me that it always makes me think of Belit on the cover of Conan #100. Anyway it's a chance to post some beautiful art--there, I said it (hey, how's that for mixing threads? )
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Post by Farrar on May 18, 2020 19:42:06 GMT -5
Much thanks for the nomination Farrar and @md62 , means a lot coming from you original CCF members. My pleasure, brutalis. Though fwiw I'm not an original CCF member ; I joined about a year after CCF's inception (and I did lurk a bit before I took the plunge ).
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Post by Farrar on May 18, 2020 13:57:16 GMT -5
I nominate brutalis Take a look at any of his posts; he's always unfailingly pleasant and has a generous spirit. In addition, he creates a lot of fun threads that appeal to a variety of people here. And in "his" threads he's not one to hog the limelight; he welcomes all and makes sure to acknowledge everyone's contributions. He also "likes" a lot, which I think makes many of us here feel like we're being heard.
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Post by Farrar on May 17, 2020 14:07:48 GMT -5
^^^ Yes, and here it is, from 1961, from Dell from Amazon
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Post by Farrar on May 17, 2020 11:38:54 GMT -5
I think he found that angle dynamic, partly because it was unusual. When movie director Edward Dmytryk visited my film class, he talked about his crews would laugh 'cause he would squat down or stand on boxes when lining up shots because what was unusual kept audience interest. Right. In interviews Gil Kane's said just that: he wanted to do comic book art/illustration that was closer to cinema/movies rather than portrait painting. He strove to incorporate cinematic techniques in his work. And he liked to use that low angle shot in particular for precisely the reason you mention: it was dramatic, plus it added "menace." From what I've seen in his work he'd used it here and there before the 1960s, but it was a natural for him to use in The Atom and it took off (for him) from there.
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Post by Farrar on May 17, 2020 11:21:12 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on May 17, 2020 10:53:21 GMT -5
Back when I was a regular reader of comics, I noticed that John Buscema often drew his male characters standing around with their arms folded across their chests. So a few years ago when I got back into comics and started collecting old issues, when I came across this panel in FF #137 I burst out laughing.
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Post by Farrar on May 13, 2020 17:01:51 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on May 13, 2020 16:32:33 GMT -5
May 1970My Marvels Part 2That month two new split mags debuted, Amazing Adventures and Astonishing Tales. I'd always been intrigued by the older split books, or at least their titles: Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish and Strange Tales had always seemed so exotic to me, even though I never read them. I was glad to see the Black Widow and the Inhumans in their own features, and while I wasn't particularly interested in Dr. Doom or Ka-Zar, I wanted to start from the beginning-- so I bought both comics that May. Amazing Adventures #1: The Inhumans were drawn and written by jack Kirby. The story wasn't that great, and frankly neither was the art since it was inked by Chic Stone. Now I loved Stone's inking of Kirby in the old FFs I had, but for a 1970 comic it just seemed too clunky and old-fashioned. And Kirby (infamously) gave Black Bolt a thought bubble, which IMO diminished BB's mystique. The Black Widow story was just okay too, but at least it had John Buscema art. I know Natasha's new costume was in response to Emma Peel's popularity, but I also wonder if Marvel just felt that her old costume was too similar to Black Canary's (who was getting some major airtime over at DC). Astonishing Tales #1: Good art by Kirby, this time inked by the Sinnottesque Sam Grainger (Ka-Zar); and by Wally Wood (Dr. Doom); but as mentioned I wasn't very interested in these characters and neither of these stories did much to change my mind. This was the first and only issue of AT I ever bought.
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