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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 11, 2016 14:42:59 GMT -5
The two cartoonists who made my long list that I don't think were mentioned by anyone else were... The other is Herb Block. Unquestionably one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time, Block aimed squarely at Joseph McCarthy and hit the target without ever flinching. Herblock was on my list of 15. You nailed it, Slam. I only wish he could have been around now to lacerate the heirs to McCarthy who are part of the traveling freak show that is the GOP slate. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 11, 2016 14:51:40 GMT -5
I had included Frank King on my list of 15. He was the creator of the fascinating Gasoline Alley strip, a true family saga in which the characters aged in real time (though they did remain well preserved in their super-annuation). King particularly distinguished himself as an artist in his imaginative Sunday pages.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 11, 2016 15:30:43 GMT -5
I did not, but should have thought of Frank King. One of the few cartoonists whose Sunday strips could rival Winsor McCay for innovation.
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Post by foxley on Jan 11, 2016 16:12:30 GMT -5
I've added a couple of other near-misses to my list, including one who didn't make anyone's final list.
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Post by berkley on Jan 12, 2016 2:05:28 GMT -5
Enki Bilal was going to be on my list but I've read only the Nikopol Trilogy and it's been so long that I found myself unable to recall many details about it. Surprised no one else mentioned him.
Did Howard Chaykin come up in any lists? He must have. Almost made my own 12, but I've read only the first few issues of American Flagg and a few early solo things like Cody Starbuck.
Bryan Talbot probably should have been one of my picks, because Luther Arkwright (only thing of his I've read) has to be one of the best comics of its kind ever created. With my earlier picks I sometimes found myself leaning more towards favourite artists who wrote stories I wouldn't necessarily have rated highly if they'd been drawn by someone else.
Julie Doucet - I feel guilty leaving her off. One of my favourites, but I haven't read much since the 90s. Same with ...
Seth - One of the most balanced creators around, his artwork and writing complement each other perfectly. I've lost track of his more recent work, somehow.
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Post by foxley on Jan 12, 2016 2:26:56 GMT -5
Did Howard Chaykin come up in any lists? He must have. Almost made my own 12, but I've read only the first few issues of American Flagg and a few early solo things like Cody Starbuck. He made two lists, mine being one of them (mostly for Dominic Fortune but also for Elseworlds: Dark Allegiances, my favourite Elseworlds book). |
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Post by DubipR on Jan 12, 2016 9:44:30 GMT -5
Did Howard Chaykin come up in any lists? He must have. Almost made my own 12, but I've read only the first few issues of American Flagg and a few early solo things like Cody Starbuck. He made two lists, mine being one of them (mostly for Dominic Fortune but also for Elseworlds: Dark Allegiances, my favourite Elseworlds book). Chaykin was my Number 4.
When I get home, I'll post my Near Misses. I have a paper somewhere that has the names...
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Post by DubipR on Jan 12, 2016 20:57:17 GMT -5
Got back home and found my paper that had all my choices. The usual list of people that others had are on here and some others randoms 1. R Crumb 2. Herge 3. Hugo Pratt 4. Stan Sakai 5. Rand Holmes  6. Mark Schultz 7. Carl Barks 8. Don Rosa 9. Carol Lay  10. Dave Lapham 11. Darwyn Cooke 12. Seth  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 13, 2016 16:39:00 GMT -5
Milton Caniff almost made my list. Looking back, I regret that he didn't. This was the fourth from the last panel of his final Terry strip (1946). What a farewell! What a kiss! You can hear that leather flight jacket creaking. i 
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 13, 2016 19:25:48 GMT -5
There's one name, it seems to me, curiously missing and I blame myself for not contributing this year  Eric Powell, writer and artist of Dark Horse's Goon comics series. The man's a fantastic painter, his comic panels exhibit strong storytelling skills and his writing voice is entertaining, humorous and unique. Obviou;y influenced by both Eisner and Kirby. The Goon comic began in the late 1990s and became a Dark Horse continuing series, I believe, in 2002. Maybe its because the bulk of his career occurred less than 10 years? I would have, should have, voted for him   |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 14, 2016 9:10:30 GMT -5
Mike Grell, Dave Stevens, Jean-Claude Forrest, Terry Moore and Wally Wood were all near misses for me. There were also creators like Bryan Talbot, David Petersen and Nick Abadzis who I really wanted to include, but the works I would've chosen them for were published after 2005 and therefore ineligible.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 14, 2016 11:45:58 GMT -5
The one person I really wanted to put on my list but couldn't due to eligibility questions is the great Archie artist Harry Lucey. I was only able to find one story where he got an official writing credit from Archie, and most of his gag work was written by Frank Doyle. It's widely believed by Archie fans, however, that Lucey wrote the short-lived Sam Hill detective series. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any evidence to back this up other than hearsay, so I reluctantly dropped him.  |
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Post by Pól Rua on Jan 15, 2016 4:33:09 GMT -5
Two creators that almost made my list, but didn't get mentioned by anyone were Jason Lutes for his work on Berlin, and Jeff Nicholson for his work on Colonia... Brubaker and Lutes' 'The Fall' is one of my great mistakes in comics. When it came in, I put a copy aside for myself (I work at a comic shop), but another customer saw it and asked if we had a second copy. I told him no, but what the hell, and sold it to him. I thought I could just re-order a copy for myself. Since that time, I have been utterly unable to track down a copy. It's a whale of a story, too. Also, I adored 'Colonia', and had completely forgotten Jeff Nicholson. As an aside, his workplace horror series 'Through the Habitrails' is about to be reprinted by Dover Books (who recently reprinted 'The Puma Blues', which is glorious). |
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Post by Pól Rua on Jan 15, 2016 4:38:24 GMT -5
There's one name, it seems to me, curiously missing and I blame myself for not contributing this year... Eric Powell, writer and artist of Dark Horse's Goon comics series. The man's a fantastic painter, his comic panels exhibit strong storytelling skills and his writing voice is entertaining, humorous and unique. Obviou;y influenced by both Eisner and Kirby. The Goon comic began in the late 1990s and became a Dark Horse continuing series, I believe, in 2002. Maybe its because the bulk of his career occurred less than 10 years? I would have, should have, voted for him.... Powell is a genuine phenomenon. I was lucky enough to snaffle the first issue of the Exploding Albatross Funnybooks version of 'The Goon' (I ordered a single copy for myself because I thought it sounded like a modern day take on Popeye) and was just blown away that this guy had just sprung seemingly fully formed from nowhere, like a kind of weird, depraved hillbilly version of Venus-on-the-Halfshell. |
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