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Post by tolworthy on Mar 10, 2016 11:33:47 GMT -5
Infantino typically provided very loose pencils and so the finished look of Infantino's pencils owed a lot to whoever inked him That explains a lot. I first discovered Infantino through the 1970s Star Wars comics. Very memorable and stylised, but looked nothing like the characters in the movies. Nothing like human faces either. Later I heard people giving the guy a lot of respect, and could not understand why.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 10, 2016 12:38:57 GMT -5
Infantino typically provided very loose pencils and so the finished look of Infantino's pencils owed a lot to whoever inked him That explains a lot. I first discovered Infantino through the 1970s Star Wars comics. Very memorable and stylised, but looked nothing like the characters in the movies. Nothing like human faces either. Later I heard people giving the guy a lot of respect, and could not understand why. Infantino was a design guy, that's where his interest was. Not the details. He excelled in laying out covers, splashs, panels on the page, etc. and had a superb sense of the "big picture" if not the details. And as he progressed in his career (art director, EIC, etc.), he increasingly left the details to the inkers or even sometimes another penciler who would do the finishes. For anyone interested in his career and art, I can't recommend the book "Amazing World of Carmine Infantino" enough. www.amazon.com/The-Amazing-World-Carmine-Infantino/dp/1887591125
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Post by tolworthy on Mar 10, 2016 15:45:40 GMT -5
I agree. Superb layouts. So much power. Unforgettable. I just wish I could work out who those faces are. E.g. were these two ever in the movie?
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 10, 2016 15:58:47 GMT -5
That explains a lot. I first discovered Infantino through the 1970s Star Wars comics. Very memorable and stylised, but looked nothing like the characters in the movies. Nothing like human faces either. Later I heard people giving the guy a lot of respect, and could not understand why. Infantino was a design guy, that's where his interest was. Not the details. He excelled in laying out covers, splashs, panels on the page, etc. and had a superb sense of the "big picture" if not the details. And as he progressed in his career (art director, EIC, etc.), he increasingly left the details to the inkers or even sometimes another penciler who would do the finishes. For anyone interested in his career and art, I can't recommend the book "Amazing World of Carmine Infantino" enough. www.amazon.com/The-Amazing-World-Carmine-Infantino/dp/1887591125Whe he inked himself, even back in the 60s (which was rarely), his worl was scratchy, but those and Star Wars issues and the Flash he did for Dc around the same time like wild parodies or imitations of that scratchy 60s stuff. Way too angular and sharp for my taste.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 10, 2016 16:00:15 GMT -5
I agree. Superb layouts. So much power. Unforgettable. I just wish I could work out who those faces are. E.g. were these two ever in the movie? Looks like Hagrid and Caitlyn Jenner.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 10, 2016 17:58:56 GMT -5
Infantino typically provided very loose pencils and so the finished look of Infantino's pencils owed a lot to whoever inked him That explains a lot. I first discovered Infantino through the 1970s Star Wars comics. Very memorable and stylised, but looked nothing like the characters in the movies. Nothing like human faces either. Later I heard people giving the guy a lot of respect, and could not understand why. Tolworthy (and anyone else who may be interested), my mention of that Infantino book sparked the old memory and sure enough, some months ago in another thread I see I had quoted him regarding his Star Wars work. My apologies that I did not include this (below) in my earlier reply to you, as it appears that for the Star Wars assignment he provided full pencils or his version thereof...instead of just breakdowns or layouts. Here's what he wrote in the book: "It was tough work learning all the equipment and characters. I went into it as just another Marvel job, but Archie Goodwin was a very good editor and he got me to pay more attention to Star Wars...I put in all the details in the pencils, because George Lucas' people had to see everything first!" Here's the link to my post in the other thread: classiccomics.boards.net/post/111800/thread
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 10, 2016 21:33:38 GMT -5
Action Comics 1 by Joe Shuster
Secret Origins 1 (1986) by Wayne Boring and Jerry Ordway
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 10, 2016 23:03:54 GMT -5
I agree. Superb layouts. So much power. Unforgettable. I just wish I could work out who those faces are. E.g. were these two ever in the movie? Forget the bad likenesses; that's some early Superfriends seasons level chatting in space right there...
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Post by MDG on Mar 11, 2016 10:43:00 GMT -5
Whe he inked himself, even back in the 60s (which was rarely), his worl was scratchy, but those and Star Wars issues and the Flash he did for Dc around the same time like wild parodies or imitations of that scratchy 60s stuff. Way too angular and sharp for my taste. I like a lot of his post-DC publisher work. Denis Jensen on The Flash might be my favorite Infantino inker; Bob Smith, not as much. He also did some good work at Warren with people like Simonson and Wrightson inking him. My first original art page purchase--as opposed to sketches--was an Infantino Star Wars page I brought from Terry Austin for 35 or 40 bucks.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 15, 2016 11:02:40 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 15, 2016 22:19:58 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 17, 2016 7:25:54 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 21:23:24 GMT -5
From the back cover ad of this month's Dr. Strange #6.... a Marvel custom ad for M&M's 75th anniversary homaging Avengers #4. -M
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Post by berkley on Mar 18, 2016 0:43:17 GMT -5
Infantino typically provided very loose pencils and so the finished look of Infantino's pencils owed a lot to whoever inked him That explains a lot. I first discovered Infantino through the 1970s Star Wars comics. Very memorable and stylised, but looked nothing like the characters in the movies. Nothing like human faces either. Later I heard people giving the guy a lot of respect, and could not understand why. I don't like Infantino's 70s Marvel work at all, but I love the Infantino covers inked by Murphy Anderson for DC in the 60s, which makes me suspect they're more Anderson than Infantino.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 18, 2016 5:45:47 GMT -5
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