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Post by berkley on Dec 27, 2014 0:04:24 GMT -5
Tom Sutton was a very good artist - probably under-rated, at least by Marvel/DC fans, I think it's fair to say, as he mostly did fill-in work for those companies. I liked a couple issues he drew for the post-Englehart Doctor Strange, one inked by Ernie Chan and especially another he inked himself.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 27, 2014 0:10:44 GMT -5
Tom Sutton was a very good artist - probably under-rated, at least by Marvel/DC fans, I think it's fair to say, as he mostly did fill-in work for those companies. I liked a couple issues he drew for the post-Englehart Doctor Strange, one inked by Ernie Chan and especially another he inked himself. Oooo he drew some Dr Strange?! I bet those looked nice. That seems a fitting character for him. Though I think most of his work I own and/or have seen is horror or non-superhero. |
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Post by berkley on Dec 27, 2014 0:20:41 GMT -5
Tom Sutton was a very good artist - probably under-rated, at least by Marvel/DC fans, I think it's fair to say, as he mostly did fill-in work for those companies. I liked a couple issues he drew for the post-Englehart Doctor Strange, one inked by Ernie Chan and especially another he inked himself. Oooo he drew some Dr Strange?! I bet those looked nice. That seems a fitting character for him. Though I think most of his work I own and/or have seen is horror or non-superhero. Yeah, he could have ended up becoming one of the classic Doctor Strange aritsts (of which there have been several) if he'd stayed or been kept on the book, I think - always depending on the inker. And the storyline at the time had a bit of a Lovecraftian horror element to it that suited his style, too. Looking them up, I see it was DS #27, 28, 29, & 30, with three issues inked by Chan and one by Sutton himself. Should be cheap back-issues Not sure why he left the book. Maybe he didn't want to work on a regular monthly or bimonthly series? But the creative set-up was very unstable for quite some time after Englehart and Colan left, so maybe it was just one of the many seemingly arbitrary changes made to the book around that time. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 27, 2014 0:30:47 GMT -5
Oooo he drew some Dr Strange?! I bet those looked nice. That seems a fitting character for him. Though I think most of his work I own and/or have seen is horror or non-superhero. Yeah, he could have ended up becoming one of the classic Doctor Strange aritsts (of which there have been several) if he'd stayed or been kept on the book, I think - always depending on the inker. And the storyline at the time had a bit of a Lovecraftian horror element to it that suited his style, too. Looking them up, I see it was DS #27, 28, 29, & 30, with three issues inked by Chan and one by Sutton himself. Should be cheap back-issues Not sure why he left the book. Maybe he didn't want to work on a regular monthly or bimonthly series? But the creative set-up was very unstable for quite some time after Englehart and Colan left, so maybe it was just one of the many seemingly arbitrary changes made to the book around that time. Thanks for the issue numbers berk. I've been reading his page on Wikipedia which doesn't say much in regards to the explination of your narrative other that he disliked superheroes as fascists and stayed at the supernatural titles that Marvel was making at the time he worked for them. Most of my stuff of his is his Charelton comics and Vampirella. And looking at the Planet of the Apes magazine he also did some work for reminds me of two enteries I might offer that I stumbled on that I don't see mentioned all that much either; Nester Redondo and Alfredo Alcala. |
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Post by berkley on Dec 27, 2014 0:46:12 GMT -5
Interesting to read that comment of his about superheroes. Doctor Strange might have been a good book for him to work on back then, though perhaps not later, as my impression is that under Roger Stern it became more of a magical superhero series than it had been during Englehart's run. I believe Sutton's issues came near the beginning of Stern's run.
And of course now the ol' Doc really is just another superhero - and an Avenger - like about every other Marvel character, from Shang Chi to you-name-it.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 27, 2014 7:09:41 GMT -5
Herb Trimpe surely belongs on this unfortunate list. First artist I thought off when I saw the OP. It's gotta be Trimpe's pre-1990s work for me though, after that his stuff gets butt ugly. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 27, 2014 7:36:37 GMT -5
Herb Trimpe surely belongs on this unfortunate list. First artist I thought off when I saw the OP. It's gotta be Trimpe's pre-1990s work for me though, after that his stuff gets butt ugly. I respect all that he accomplished in his career but I never thought his art was pretty to the eye. |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 27, 2014 8:28:10 GMT -5
First artist I thought off when I saw the OP. It's gotta be Trimpe's pre-1990s work for me though, after that his stuff gets butt ugly. I respect all that he accomplished in his career but I never thought his art was pretty to the eye. I kinda know what you mean, but Trimpe came up with some quite nice looking stuff back in the day, like this piece from Star Wars #17...  I've seen various bits and pieces of stuff he's drawn recently and it's nowhere near as nice as this. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 27, 2014 8:39:30 GMT -5
I'd agree with Rich Buckler... he did Firestorm for a while? Is that the guy? I'm not loving Greg LaRoque's style as I read those 80s Legion books. I've always like Ron Lim, myself, and I like Al Milgrom more than most here.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 27, 2014 9:24:45 GMT -5
Rich Buckler is a fine storyteller but I can never get past his swipes. It's hard to stay in the narrative when part of my brain is constantly saying "Oh, there's a Neal Adams face from Spectre #4," or "That drawing started life as a John Buscema figure for Sub-Mariner #2." Do, however, number me among both Tom Sutton and Herb Trimpe's fans. Trimpe, especially, is a master of pacing and page composition.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 27, 2014 10:12:54 GMT -5
Interesting to read that comment of his about superheroes. Doctor Strange might have been a good book for him to work on back then, though perhaps not later, as my impression is that under Roger Stern it became more of a magical superhero series than it had been during Englehart's run. I believe Sutton's issues came near the beginning of Stern's run. And of course now the ol' Doc really is just another superhero - and an Avenger - like about every other Marvel character, from Shang Chi to you-name-it. Doc Strange has one I have not read a lot of in his own book. Being a fan of many of the supernatural books (both at DC and Marvel) especially in the 70s, where to me the subject either wasn't taboo from earlier generations and not ridiculed as silly and superstitious as it seems in later generations, I have read that side of Doc Strange. If any parts of his own title stayed in the mystic part more than superhero part I could be interested. As I get the impression from the issues I do own (due to either character artist or writer appearances) I would agree with you. Edit: For anyone interested, a nice summation of Tom Sutton's career and him as a person as recounted by many of his colleagues and friends. www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/resources/longbox/61/And an interview. www.tcj.com/an-odd-man-out-tom-sutton/ |
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Post by DubipR on Dec 28, 2014 20:36:38 GMT -5
Frank Thorne doesn't get the props for what he's done in comics.
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Post by MDG on Dec 28, 2014 21:05:47 GMT -5
Frank Thorne doesn't get the props for what he's done in comics. Agreed...  Seriously, though, I have a real nice DC war page by him. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 28, 2014 22:23:57 GMT -5
Love Thorne's work. For a while, at the height of Sonjamania in the '70s, he was anything *but* underrated.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 28, 2014 23:06:35 GMT -5
Thorne was excellent on Tomahawk...
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