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Post by rberman on Feb 14, 2018 11:21:28 GMT -5
I also found Steve Ditko's work on the final issues of ROM unbearable after Broderick and others. Probably the worst "professional" comic art I've ever seen. But Sal was the only other penciler on Rom; you might be thinking of Broderick on Micronauts. Must be. It's been a while!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 14, 2018 11:30:46 GMT -5
These are from Secret Origins #17. If Dezuniga had been inking Infantino throughout the 70s and 80s I'd have been fine with that.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2018 11:35:38 GMT -5
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Post by rberman on Feb 14, 2018 11:37:09 GMT -5
I quite liked Infantino's Star Wars, Spider-Woman and Nova at Marvel during the late 70's and the early 80's. Many of his Marvel and DC fill in's were very nice depending on the inker. His swan song on Flash at DC was marred by horrible printing/coloring and sometimes poor choices for inking. I think Terry Austin and Al Gordon were particularly good inkers for him. I much prefer that era of his work to his DC stuff. I always found Infantino a little funny for his insistence on drawing the philtrum (the parenthesis-looking indendtion between the nose and mouth). I don't hate it; it's just a visual quirk that helps identify his art.
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Post by MDG on Feb 14, 2018 11:41:08 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Feb 14, 2018 11:43:49 GMT -5
These are from Secret Origins #17. If Dezuniga had been inking Infantino throughout the 70s and 80s I'd have been fine with that. I thought DeZuniga was kinda blandifying on Infantino. "V" barely looked like Carmine's work. (And, yes, I realize how huge an opening I'm leaving there.)
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Post by badwolf on Feb 14, 2018 11:58:05 GMT -5
I think Terry Austin and Al Gordon were particularly good inkers for him. I much prefer that era of his work to his DC stuff. I always found Infantino a little funny for his insistence on drawing the philtrum (the parenthesis-looking indendtion between the nose and mouth). I don't hate it; it's just a visual quirk that helps identify his art. When I was a kid I didn't like his art at all. Everyone always looked squat or leaning back as if they were being acted upon by a greater gravitational force. I just didn't understand the style. But now I like it.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 14, 2018 13:55:28 GMT -5
The older Infantino got, the more eccentric his style became until it became an unflattering caricature of itself. This is very much how I feel about his work on Star Wars: it's all ridiculously hard angles, ungainly poses, and willfully stylised depictions of the franchise's technology. I'd love to know why he chose to modify his style like this. Like, what was his thought process? Was it just a cantankerous old man doing what he damn well pleased or did he regard it as honing his art? I might be wrong, but as far as I can tell there seems to be scant interviews with Infantino from this later period. I wish he was still alive -- there is so much I'd like to ask him, specifically about his work on SW, of course, but more generally on his changing style. All that said, his ability to tell a story clearly and sussinctly with comic book panels never deserted the man (although I am unfamiliar with any of his post early '80s stuff).
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Post by Confessor on Feb 14, 2018 13:56:35 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2018 14:02:11 GMT -5
The older Infantino got, the more eccentric his style became until it became an unflattering caricature of itself. This is very much how I feel about his work on Star Wars: i t's all hard angles, ungainly poses, and willfully stylised depictions of the franchise's technology. I'd love to know why he chose to modify his style like this. Like, what was his thought process? Was it just a cantankerous old man doing what he damn well pleased or did he regard it as honing his art? I might be wrong, but as far as I can tell there seems to be scant interviews with Infantino from this later period. I wish he was still alive -- there is so much I'd like to ask him, specifically about his work on SW, of course, but more generally on his changing style. All that said, his ability to tell a story clearly and sussinctly with comic book panels never deserted the man (although I am unfamiliar with any of his post early '80s stuff). You said it. Infantino's pencils almost always needed "softening, which is why Murphy Anderson and Sid Greene made his pencils look so good. That's why the Tony de Zuniga inks were such a help. He made those pages look as if Joe Giella had inked them. (Not my favorite Infantino inker, but better than full-out-80s Carmine.) Hey, the guy was a pioneer and a hell of an artist in his heyday. Maybe age and the need to speed things along to make a few bucks were the culprits after his publisher days ended.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2018 14:03:47 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2018 14:04:23 GMT -5
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 14, 2018 14:08:08 GMT -5
Mr Infantino wowed me, and still does whenever I read Star Lord in Marvel Preview #14-15. I mean the Claremont story was good, but he stole the show with that amazing B&W art.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2018 14:20:22 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2018 14:21:24 GMT -5
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