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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 24, 2016 17:59:54 GMT -5
I got into collecting comics because of the art. I chased after certain artists. But how many here chase after the work of writers?
Do you follow artists or writers?
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 18:04:30 GMT -5
Writers.
For me a great comic has 4 factors. Character, concept, writer & artist.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 24, 2016 18:08:20 GMT -5
It's all about the art, man. Without the art, it's just a novel.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 18:13:30 GMT -5
I've always believe that the comic book should be written first and then the artist interpret the story and with the writer he attempts to draw the book itself and if the writer is pleased with it - then it's becomes a great comic book itself. That's how I see it and nothing more.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 18:20:24 GMT -5
I used to keep extensive lists of everything about half a dozen guys had ever written.
I wouldn't say that it's the other way now, but I tend to read a lot more of characters that intrigue me rather than basing interest on the credits box.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 24, 2016 19:40:05 GMT -5
I've always been a writer first guy, even though this is a visual medium. I do feel like in many ways the artist is more important; I think a good artist can save a badly written story, but a good writer cannot save a badly drawn story. But I definitely follow writers far more than artists.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 24, 2016 19:43:49 GMT -5
The artist attracts my attention. The writer determines if I stick around.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 19:43:55 GMT -5
There are artists who will get me to check out a book and some whose work I will pick up whenever I can, but for me to follow a book long term the writer has to be telling a story that I want to follow. It's a visual medium and the story needs to be told visually well, but the story, hence usually the writer, is what gets me to stay.
However, the best answer for me is: it is the storyteller. Whether that is writer or artist, whether those are the same person (i.e. a cartoonist as so many of that ilk prefer to be called) or a collaboration of the two. Without story, it's just a picture book, and while I certainly like some of those pictures, there's nothing there to keep me coming back without story.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 24, 2016 20:36:34 GMT -5
There are artists whose work I will get...if the story is good. Great art with a lousy story is unreadable to me.
I'm a writer guy.
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Post by shaxper on May 24, 2016 21:31:56 GMT -5
Almost always writers. There are only three artists I will ever buy a book for:
George Perez (his art adds to the characterization and truly enhances the storytelling)
P. Craig Russell (so bold and brilliant that it drives the narrative itself)
J.H. Williams III (ditto)
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Post by hondobrode on May 24, 2016 23:43:05 GMT -5
Comics are a beautiful mix of both words and pictures, but I'll take average words with a great concept over a spectacular artist's work over a weak story.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 0:51:56 GMT -5
As I said above, it is story that keeps me, but there are a handful of artists whose work will attract me to a work-to the point I might buy something for their art alone...
Joe Kubert
Jack Kirby
Jim Steranko
Walt Simonson
Darwyn Cooke
Mike Mignola
Moebius
Phillipe Druillet
and a handful of cartoonists who write and draw whose art is as much a draw as their story...
Will Eisner
Jeff Smith
Howard Chaykin
Stan Sakai
Jim Starlin
Colleen Doran
Carla Speed McNeil
Herge
Linda Medley
Eric Shanower
Dylan Horrocks
Gary Spencer Millidge
Milton Caniff
Scott McCloud
There are a few artists whose involvement might get me to check out a book, but the story has to be up to par for me to buy into it...
Charles Vess
Michael Kaluta
Barry Windsor-Smith
Alex Toth
George Perez
Kevin Maguire
Michael Lark
Sean Phillips
Steve Epting
Francisco Francavilla
Neal Adams
Jim Aparo
Nicola Scott
Daniel Brereton
but there is a laundry list of writers who will get me to check out a project and give it a chance regardless of who is on art (way too many to list here), and I am far more likely to pay out the money for a book if I am drawn to the writer only than I am if drawn to the art only.
-M
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Post by Pharozonk on May 25, 2016 0:59:43 GMT -5
Writers are much more important to me. I get that comics are a visual medium, but without a compelling story, it's just a sequence of pretty images without any real heart or passion to it. *cough 90's Image comics* cough  |
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 25, 2016 3:01:57 GMT -5
Ideally you'd have great art and writing, but I have to go with artists. Workmanlike writing with great art is far more appealing to me than great writing and mediocre art. I think you have to define what great writing really is. I think Walt Simonson is a fantastic writer/artist and can tell a great story, but he's not a wordsmith like Alan Moore. And so on...
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Post by Dizzy D on May 25, 2016 3:39:12 GMT -5
I used to be more writer than artist, but I'm now 50/50, about half the things I'm getting for art and half the things I'm getting for writer. I don't think there are writers and artists around now where I'm getting absolutely everything they do though, so there is also a part, which I call concept, which is basically a combination of the idea behind the comic, the characters in it, things the team does with storytelling and so on, which is hard to define, which overrules both writer and artist for me.
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