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Post by hondobrode on Dec 29, 2015 18:57:03 GMT -5
I've never heard of him.
What comics did he work on ?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 19:05:18 GMT -5
I've never heard of him. What comics did he work on ? who, Owen? Starchild (and it's fantastic, and just came out with the 20th anniversary collection in 2015):   But he has done some other comics work here and there. . although he's mainly a prose writer now (he still does the illustrations in the books tho) |
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Post by DubipR on Dec 29, 2015 21:53:47 GMT -5
Great choice, Bert. James Owen is a brilliant creator and wonderful author!
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 29, 2015 23:57:02 GMT -5
Yes, James Owen.
I've never heard the name before.
Thanks for making me aware.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 0:31:04 GMT -5
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Post by Pól Rua on Dec 30, 2015 4:20:01 GMT -5
Oh gods yeah, Starchild is the dog's doo-dahs. An absolutely beautiful piece of work.
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 30, 2015 13:03:20 GMT -5
Oh gods yeah, Starchild is the dog's doo-dahs. An absolutely beautiful piece of work. I'm a fan. I'd come across it many years ago because I was on the lookout for ways people were mixing prose in with their graphic storytelling. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 30, 2015 15:12:16 GMT -5
Starchild is good, and it really is a product of Sandman times in so many ways.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2016 12:27:26 GMT -5
For day 5, one of my earliest "favourite artists", set free to also write a minor comic character, and in his usual style, crafting a story of epic grandiosity. Somewhat dimished by his habit of retreading the same story over and over again, but that doesn't change the impact of the original, where Jim Starlin told the tale of Adam Warlock's fight with his alter-ego the Magus and the mania of Thanos, through 4 separate comics  |
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Post by berkley on Jan 3, 2016 20:04:45 GMT -5
Charles Addams:
never saw the tv show or the cartoons until the movie came out, whenever that was. Like the look of the cartoons.
Johnny Ryan:
hard to tell what I think from the few samples here, so I'm not convinced yet but interested enough that I'll keep my eye out.
Mark Schultz:
one of the last cuts from my own list. Very excited to learn from benday-dot that he's going to return to Xenozoic Tales. Great news!
James A. Owe:
I've always liked this kind of detailed line-work so might have to look for more.
Doug Allen:
I recognise this from somewhere but don't recall where. Based on the examples posted above I'd like to see more.
Budd Root:
Not a top favourite but his art has certainly improved over the years. I like the idea of Cave Girl but the execution isn't often there for me, from what I've been able to see. The Devon Massey stories possess a certain crude charm of their own.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 7, 2016 20:44:11 GMT -5
Somewhat dimished by his habit of retreading the same story over and over again, but that doesn't change the impact of the original, where Jim Starlin told the tale of Adam Warlock's fight with his alter-ego the Magus and the mania of Thanos, through 4 separate comics Interesting. I felt like Starlin was already repeating himself with Warlock; the original Thanos story was in Captain Marvel. |
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Post by coke & comics on Jan 8, 2016 0:10:39 GMT -5
Somewhat dimished by his habit of retreading the same story over and over again, but that doesn't change the impact of the original, where Jim Starlin told the tale of Adam Warlock's fight with his alter-ego the Magus and the mania of Thanos, through 4 separate comics Interesting. I felt like Starlin was already repeating himself with Warlock; the original Thanos story was in Captain Marvel. In many ways, he was. I think the Warlock thing added several unique elements and was on the whole better than the Captain Marvel arc. He would mine both for ideas in... well, most every other work thereafter. For example, Warlock introduced the notion of an evil church and false prophet, like what we would then see in Dreadstar and Infinity Crusade and... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2016 0:43:45 GMT -5
Interesting. I felt like Starlin was already repeating himself with Warlock; the original Thanos story was in Captain Marvel. In many ways, he was. I think the Warlock thing added several unique elements and was on the whole better than the Captain Marvel arc. He would mine both for ideas in... well, most every other work thereafter. For example, Warlock introduced the notion of an evil church and false prophet, like what we would then see in Dreadstar and Infinity Crusade and... All of which was drawn from Starlin's disillusionment with the Catholic Church he experienced growing up in the 50s and 60s and then used as grist in his writing. A lot of those themes are recurring through his work because they recur through his youth and he was drawing from his own life, experiences and emotional disillusionment with a lot of establishment institutions (church, gov't, business) etc. and they would recur throughout the oeuvre of his work, you can see inklings of it in his contributions to Dr. Weird form his fanzine days through the Marvel phase, the Epic days, his DC stuff like Hardcore Station, Cosmic Odyssey and Gilgramesh II to his second indy phase with stuff like 'Breed, Wyrd, etc. and even in his prose books. Write what you know and draw form your own life are what writers are told to do, and Starlin has mined that well throughout his career as a writer in all media. -M |
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Post by coke & comics on Jan 8, 2016 2:12:27 GMT -5
In many ways, he was. I think the Warlock thing added several unique elements and was on the whole better than the Captain Marvel arc. He would mine both for ideas in... well, most every other work thereafter. For example, Warlock introduced the notion of an evil church and false prophet, like what we would then see in Dreadstar and Infinity Crusade and... All of which was drawn from Starlin's disillusionment with the Catholic Church he experienced growing up in the 50s and 60s and then used as grist in his writing. A lot of those themes are recurring through his work because they recur through his youth and he was drawing from his own life, experiences and emotional disillusionment with a lot of establishment institutions (church, gov't, business) etc. and they would recur throughout the oeuvre of his work, you can see inklings of it in his contributions to Dr. Weird form his fanzine days through the Marvel phase, the Epic days, his DC stuff like Hardcore Station, Cosmic Odyssey and Gilgramesh II to his second indy phase with stuff like 'Breed, Wyrd, etc. and even in his prose books. Write what you know and draw form your own life are what writers are told to do, and Starlin has mined that well throughout his career as a writer in all media. -M That logic suggests he knows approximately 2 things. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 8, 2016 2:36:30 GMT -5
That logic suggests he knows approximately 2 things. His output supports this thesis. |
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