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Post by Mormel on Dec 21, 2015 7:50:07 GMT -5
I haven't been around the Classics Forum in a long while... but I'm glad to see you guys are still going.
I was reading an Iron Man TPB of Marvel's Epic line, entitled 'The Enemy Within', which collects the first part of Denny O'Neill's run on Invincible Iron Man from the early '80s. It takes a while before they settle on a regular artist, but one of the fill-in artists turned out to be Mike Vosburg. I hadn't been paying attention to the credits while reading, but I recognized his style from his contributions to Savage She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel.
What do you guys think of his art? Amid all the other artists that were active at Marvel around 1980 (perhaps especially on a book like Iron Man, where a more 'geometrical' approach to both character design and action scene choreography is favoured), Vosburg's fluid lines and facial expressions kinda end up standing out. I've only recently learned that he apparently doesn't care all that much for his superhero stuff, preferring works where he has more creative control, but still, I'm really grabbed by his work. Did he have any more notable runs at Marvel aside from She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel?
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 21, 2015 8:52:32 GMT -5
He isn't one of my faves but he's okay. I agree that he's a bit more fluid than some of his contemporaries but he's still very much of that whole pack of wannabe Adamses, Kirbys and Buscemas that dominated the art at the Big Two in the Seventies.
Cei-U!
I summon the shrug!
PS. Besides the Marvel series you mention, he was also the regular artist on Secret Society of Super-Villains during the second half of that short-lived series.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 21, 2015 9:07:56 GMT -5
He was pretty decent. I remember him from his work on Valiant but he did an independent comic called Lori Lovecraft that was really nice. He drew nice females in that series.
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Post by MDG on Dec 21, 2015 9:43:55 GMT -5
He's a pretty solid artist. Gotta give him credit for agreeing to draw American Flagg in Chaykin's style rather than his own. He also did several of the covers used in HBO's Tales from the Crypt.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 21, 2015 9:44:46 GMT -5
My only exposure to his work is those couple of Ms. Marvel issues at the end of the run and a bunch of early G.I. Joe issues when he took over for Herb Trimpe on the title. I was rereading the first 10 G.I. Joes over the weekend in a TPB, and while his work, on issues #6 & 8-10, was a noticeable departure from Trimpe, it certainly wasn't bad, but it also wasn't anything that made me long for more of it.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 21, 2015 10:46:30 GMT -5
He was pretty decent. I remember him from his work on Valiant but he did an independent comic called Lori Lovecraft that was really nice. He drew nice females in that series. What work did he do for Valiant? |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 21, 2015 11:36:55 GMT -5
He did some Darque Passage & Eternal Warrior at Valiant I call him "Mike"  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 21, 2015 11:50:28 GMT -5
When he replaced Ernie Colon on Marvel's John Carter, I was ecstatic. Then I sort of fell out of love with his style which seemed to include too many wide jawbones for women, during his She-Hulk period for example. I warmed up to it again when he quite ably handled Archer & Armstrong at Valiant. My general impression today is that he's a good artist who learned a lot as he was going.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2015 14:54:21 GMT -5
My particular favorite of his work in the 8 issue word and science series Starfire he did for DC with Michelinie in '77-'78.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 21, 2015 15:25:51 GMT -5
My particular favorite of his work in the 8 issue word and science series Starfire he did for DC with Michelinie in '77-'78. -M Michelinie went over to Valiant too, fwiw. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 21, 2015 15:50:31 GMT -5
He isn't one of my faves but he's okay. I agree that he's a bit more fluid than some of his contemporaries but he's still very much of that whole pack of wannabe Adamses, Kirbys and Buscemas that dominated the art at the Big Two in the Seventies. Cei-U! I summon the shrug! PS. Besides the Marvel series you mention, he was also the regular artist on Secret Society of Super-Villains during the second half of that short-lived series. YAY! SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS! I used to be fairly indifferent or even mildly hostile to Vosburg. But SSOSV is one of my favorite short-run comics - its cancelation was one of the great tragedies of my childhood! - and I've read it so many times that those big-jawed Vosburg figures have grown on me over the years. Mention Vosburg, and I think of the Wizard in his stupid orange cloak, the Blockbuster and his stupid sandals, the Floronic Man, Professor Zoom and Captain Comet. |
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 21, 2015 16:00:53 GMT -5
He also worked on the Paradox feature in Bizarre Adventures and Sisterhood of Steel for Epic.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 22, 2015 10:19:07 GMT -5
You mean the guy that did the interior art for this??? I very much enjoy his art, of what little I have. Clea being in it as well is why I bought it. Then after it I started collecting Satana appearances. I am not much of an Iron Man fan but I will hit the library before the holiday and see if they have an Iron Man TPB with that story in it. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 22, 2015 15:51:33 GMT -5
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Post by Mormel on Dec 24, 2015 8:03:47 GMT -5
Wow, thanks for the input, you guys, even if his art is a teensy bit polarizing in the community.  I'll see if I can't check out some of the titles you guys mentioned. Incidentally, I'm reading an issue a day of the O'Neill Iron Man run now, and I have to say I'm equally smitten if not moreso by Luke McDonnell's art (who'll remain as the regular artist for a while). |
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I'll see if I can't check out some of the titles you guys mentioned.