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Post by zilch on Sept 10, 2015 18:08:17 GMT -5
I'm on record as not being a huge fan of Neal Adams but when I see things like the double-page street scene posted above I think that would change if I were exposed to more of the same. Looking at that and some of the covers he did for the horror series like House of Mystery, I think it's his superhero work that leaves me a little cold. I wish he'd done more work in other genres, horror, espionage, whatever - anything where people wore regular clothes rather than skin-tight costumes. I like Steve Rude's work but sometimes it seems a little too self-consciously derivative for me to rank him with the very best. Still, there's no denying he's very good at what he does and it's a shame we don't get to see more of his stuff. Hadn't heard of this World's Finest series before now but I might look at it just for the art, much as I dislike Superman, and even Batman, these days. A lot of that is probably the work of his inkers, like Giordano and his assistants like Terry Austin, who i see in the backrounds.
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Post by zilch on Sept 10, 2015 18:20:46 GMT -5
And the thing that gets me about Maneely is he was incredibly fast... i read somewhere that he turned around an eight page inking job overnight... and delivered it to the editor's apartment before the editor got up the next morning!
And these whining little pansy artists we have nowadays can't even keep up a monthly book!
Now 'scuse me... there are some kids on my lawn...
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Post by berkley on Sept 11, 2015 2:11:35 GMT -5
I can't pin it down to just one or two, but a couple that always spring to mind are Doctor Strange #4 (Frank Brunner & Dick Giordano) and the Worms of the Earth adaptation by Barry (Windsor-)Smith and Tim Conrad in SSoC#16 & 17. Couldn't find more images to show what I mean, but it's better just to read the stories in full anyway. When you search DS#4 images, especially, it seems to show up just the big, spectacular full-page panels, which are great, but for me aren't indicative of the work as a whole and anyway work their full effect only in the context of the story itself. I tried for a long time to find the double-page opening to the 2nd part of Worms of the Earth but couldn't find an image on-line.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 11, 2015 13:52:04 GMT -5
So many nominees, but for sheer impact, for being a step beyond what I'd ever seen before, I think of the moment I first saw, in a book I was to take out of the library countless times, this page and the story that followed: Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier. Style, but substance, too. Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin's Detective, which was an oasis in the desert of sludge that was Batman comics in the mid-70s. Example; Adams changed everything with Deadman in Strange Adventures. This is the kind of layout and art you'd see regularly ( SA 213). Wow. Steranko on SHIELD. Yowza!
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 11, 2015 14:09:34 GMT -5
So many nominees, but for sheer impact, for being a step beyond what I'd ever seen before, I think of the moment I first saw, in a book I was to take out of the library countless times, this page and the story that followed: Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier. Style, but substance, too. Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin's Detective, which was an oasis in the desert of sludge that was Batman comics in the mid-70s. Example; Adams changed everything with Deadman in Strange Adventures. This is the kind of layout and art you'd see regularly ( SA 213). Wow. Steranko on SHIELD. Yowza! I hear that Nick holstered that gun quite a bit that night.
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 11, 2015 14:30:39 GMT -5
I hear that Nick holstered that gun quite a bit that night. The story of that gun-in-holster panel is interesting. That's not what Steranko originally drew; the Comics Code made Marvel change it. I've heard that Steranko congratulated Roy Thomas for coming up with something that the Code would accept although it was even more suggestive than the original drawing. Here's the story: goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/08/06/comic-book-legends-revealed-219/
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Post by MDG on Sept 11, 2015 14:31:40 GMT -5
And the thing that gets me about Maneely is he was incredibly fast... i read somewhere that he turned around an eight page inking job overnight... and delivered it to the editor's apartment before the editor got up the next morning! I really like Maneely (though to be honest, I don't think I've ever seen hos work on paper--just the web). A lot of personality in the work, comparable to Davis or Elder.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 11, 2015 15:04:07 GMT -5
Michael Golden's Micronauts, anyone?
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 11, 2015 15:44:19 GMT -5
And the thing that gets me about Maneely is he was incredibly fast... i read somewhere that he turned around an eight page inking job overnight... and delivered it to the editor's apartment before the editor got up the next morning! I really like Maneely (though to be honest, I don't think I've ever seen hos work on paper--just the web). A lot of personality in the work, comparable to Davis or Elder. I loved Maneely when I first saw his Black Knight stories in Marvel Superheroes. Couldn't have enjoyed them more. And when I found out how he died young and horribly, I was crushed.
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