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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 25, 2016 5:41:49 GMT -5
The writer gets my attention, the artist might help me buy the book, and the writer will have me keep buying or not.
Writers that I follow almost without fault : Milligan, Delano, Moore, Gaiman, Brubaker, Dan Curtis Johnson, John Arcudi, John Wagber, Lewis Trondheim.
Writers that I follow regularly : Garth Ennis, Greg Rucka, Scott Snyder, Johan Sfar, Morrison...
Cartoonists I follow without fault : Jeff Smith, Hernandez Bros, Jim Woodring, Dave Cooper, Paul Pope, Michael Deforge, Johnny Ryan, Frank Miller, Adrian Tomine, Urusawa, John K, etc...
Artists that I will buy despite average writing : Bachalo, Kevin Nowlan, Ashley Wood, Sam Kieth, Travis Charest, JH Williams III, Mike Dringenberg, zezelj, corben, ted Mckeever, Bisley, Mignola.
That was only for the still active ones.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on May 25, 2016 6:54:36 GMT -5
I was always about the art, but man its hard to reread a comic that's poorly written, let alone read it the first time...case in point Neal Adams on his Batman and Superman projects lately.
You tend to find that the better writers these days are given good artists to work with anyway, so win-win.
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Post by Warmonger on May 25, 2016 7:04:39 GMT -5
I was always about the art, but man its hard to reread a comic that's poorly written, let alone read it the first time...case in point Neal Adams on his Batman and Superman projects lately. You tend to find that the better writers these days are given good artists to work with anyway, so win-win. Oh yes I just bought the Neal Adams Batman Omnibus recently and read Batman: Odyssey for the first time...what a god awful piece of crap. |
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Post by batlaw on May 25, 2016 7:37:47 GMT -5
Age old debate. I've always been a story over art guy but of course I always appreciate and desire both. As a kid I confess to being more attracted to the art and ideas because reading was more of a chore than a pleasure.
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Post by batlaw on May 25, 2016 7:40:15 GMT -5
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I just bought the Neal Adams Batman Omnibus recently and read Batman: Odyssey for the first time...what a god awful piece of crap. [/quote]
Yeah. I like Adams but I just couldn't even force myself to continue odyssey passed #2.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 8:26:52 GMT -5
For me, it's the art.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 25, 2016 9:14:55 GMT -5
Art. Good stories can be lost to art styles I don't like. Just like good stories can be lost to movies with terrible actors/actresses. Art will always catch my attention, and the writer has to be particularly bad for the art to still not win over. Conversely, art that I don't particularly like makes it hard to read great stories.
Edit: Case in point, I literally skimmed "Kindly Ones" when I read Sandman for the first time, just so I could keep the general gist of the story to continue onward. But it was a real effort to do even that, despite having liked the writing through and through.
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 25, 2016 9:18:46 GMT -5
This debate is why I prefer great writer/artists who can do it all. It's the ultimate expression of the comic as an art form.
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Post by MDG on May 25, 2016 10:44:55 GMT -5
This debate is why I prefer great writer/artists who can do it all. It's the ultimate expression of the comic as an art form. Agreed--most of my favorites are writer/artists --or, more appropriately, cartoonists--who do both (most of the time, anyway). |
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 25, 2016 11:56:27 GMT -5
This debate is why I prefer great writer/artists who can do it all. It's the ultimate expression of the comic as an art form. Agreed--most of my favorites are writer/artists --or, more appropriately, cartoonists--who do both (most of the time, anyway). Same here. I think for me it's the idea that there is little to nothing lost in the process. A creator who can draw obviously doesn't need to interpret what a writer asks for or suggests. They can simply pull it straight from their own imagination. |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 25, 2016 12:02:09 GMT -5
Definitely art for me.
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Post by mikelmidnight on May 25, 2016 15:10:12 GMT -5
There are a few writers whose work attracts me, but for the most part I collect writers. My collection is even alphabetised by writer!
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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 25, 2016 15:28:14 GMT -5
Oh yes I just bought the Neal Adams Batman Omnibus recently and read Batman: Odyssey for the first time...what a god awful piece of crap. [/quote] Yeah. I like Adams but I just couldn't even force myself to continue odyssey passed #2. [/quote] Ha! I made it to issue #3 before I bailed. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 25, 2016 15:45:47 GMT -5
I guess the writer for me... there isn't any artist whose name makes a book an instant buy. I'll definitely pick something that looks pretty up regardless of story, though.. and even stick with it for a little while is it's good enough.
By the same token, bad art will definitely turn me off to all but the very best stories
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Post by berkley on May 25, 2016 16:41:33 GMT -5
Oh yes I just bought the Neal Adams Batman Omnibus recently and read Batman: Odyssey for the first time...what a god awful piece of crap. Yeah. I like Adams but I just couldn't even force myself to continue odyssey passed #2. Ha! I made it to issue #3 before I bailed. I'm considering getting that Batman Odyssey one of these days just because I think Adams's artwork looks really good in it. Also the JH Williams Batwoman - again, not too interested in the character or the story, but it looks like some of Williams's best artwork, from what I've seen. But on the whole, I'm probably more likely to buy a book for the writing even if the art is not so great rather than the other way around. |
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