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Post by Cei-U! on May 18, 2017 8:39:16 GMT -5
I can't stand Esposito's inking regardless of penciller, though he is at his least objectionable over Romita. I find his inks watery, lifeless, lacking in depth and clarity. Team him with Sal Buscema and I'm ready to gouge my eyes out. I dread to think what your opinion of the issues of ASM that Esposito did with Ross Andru are! Myself, I consider Andru to be the other great ASM artist -- after Ditko and Romita, natch. Again, I think Esposito's inking of Andru is top notch and I'm honestly struggling to see how you could find his work lifeless. I really think his inks are exciting and full of "bounce". Oh well, one man's meat and all that... Andru is my favorite Spidey artist after Ditko, but it's in spite of, not because of, Esposito's inks. Cei-U! I summon the mixed blessing!
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Post by chaykinstevens on May 18, 2017 12:32:29 GMT -5
During a Roy Thomas Conan saga on several occasions Buscema's pencil-work was inked by "The Tribe". "The Tribe" knocked it out the park, every single time. Here is a memorable scene from A Witch Shall Be Born: According to GCD, the Tribe comprised Tony deZuniga, Steve Gan, Rudy Mesina and the previously unknown to me Freddie Fernandez, with grey tones by Pete Lijauco.
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Post by hondobrode on May 18, 2017 20:53:14 GMT -5
I don't know any of the other guys in The Tribe, but I definitely see De Zuniga in there, and I love his work.
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Post by bran on May 19, 2017 14:51:28 GMT -5
During a Roy Thomas Conan saga on several occasions Buscema's pencil-work was inked by "The Tribe". "The Tribe" knocked it out the park, every single time. Here is a memorable scene from A Witch Shall Be Born: According to GCD, the Tribe comprised Tony deZuniga, Steve Gan, Rudy Mesina and the previously unknown to me Freddie Fernandez, with grey tones by Pete Lijauco. De Zuniga and Gan are great artists in their own right. What a team that was. some De Zuniga graphite:
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Post by hondobrode on May 19, 2017 20:25:07 GMT -5
I met him at SDCC in 2007 and was corresponding about a commission piece I was going to have him do about a week before he passed away.
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Post by berkley on May 20, 2017 13:13:36 GMT -5
One specific comic that stands out to me for the inks is Doctor Strange #4. I don't think Frank Brunner's art ever looked quite as perfect as it does to me in this comic, before or since. The inks are credited to Dick Giordano and the Crusty Bunkers, and I think they inked Brunner on several other issues of his Doctor Strange run, but while those other issues are all great none of them quite match this one. Perhaps it was some unique combination of the various artists who made up the crusty Bunkers that only came together this one time, I don't know. But whatever the reason, I think this was the absolute pinnacle of Brunner's always excellent work.
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Post by hondobrode on May 20, 2017 15:01:37 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia, there were many more hands that had worked under the Crusty Bunkers than I thought.
Hang on !
Neal Adams — principal Dick Giordano — principal Jack Abel Vicente Alcazar Sal Amendola Steven Austin Terry Austin Joe Barney Rick Basile Pat Bastienne Pat Broderick Joe Brozowski [per Bails] or Joe Brosowski[5] Frank Brunner Rick Bryant Rich Buckler Howard Chaykin Frank Cirocco Dave Cockrum Denys Cowan Joe D'Esposito Ed Davis Karin Dougherty Steve Englehart John Fuller Dan Green Darrell Goza Larry Hama Steve Harper Russ Heath Klaus Janson Jeffrey Catherine Jones Paul Kirchner Alan Kupperberg Carl Lundgren Esteban Maroto Gary Martin Bob McLeod Al Milgrom Steve Mitchell Yong Montano Tim Moriarty Gray Morrow Michael Netzer (Nasser) Bruce Patterson Carl Potts Ralph Reese Mark Rice Marshall Rogers Josef Rubinstein James Sherman Mary Skrenes Bob Smith Jim Starlin Greg Theakston Trevor Von Eeden Alan Weiss Bob Wiacek Gary Winnick Berni Wrightson
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Post by berkley on May 20, 2017 16:27:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought it was just 6 or 7 guys at the most. What an all-star group!
It would be interesting to find out who exactly worked on that particular issue. comics.org syays Bob Wiacek but it doesn't look like his style at all, from the way I remember it.
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Post by bran on Jun 7, 2017 15:46:32 GMT -5
DC inkers that were assigned for Kirby's Kamandi, did a wonderful job. They never tried to prettify or average-up Kirby's art (or super-impose their style over Kirby's). As a result it really shines - it's 100% Kirby. The only guy that damaged the art was Kirby himself with some unnecessary dialogs (where Kamandi is telling us exactly what he is doing at the moment as it is not obvious, and drawn beautifully), I guess that was a common practice of the era.
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