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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 3, 2014 1:04:25 GMT -5
Woody would easily be in my top five. Garcia-Lopez in my top ten. Woody's strip satires in Mad and Atari Force have both shown up in my Classic Christmas.
My favorite though is probably Don Newton. The greatest Phantom artist ever. And my number two Batman artist.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 3, 2014 2:21:54 GMT -5
I have always loved this. To me it's the purest representation of Batman the Superhero, or The Caped Crusader. And while that interpretation of the character isn't my favorite, that doesn't make the image any less awesome. Look at the detail of the back. The back is one of the most difficult parts of the human body to draw because there are so many overlapping wide and flat muscles, but Garcia Lopez nailed it. And the elegance of Batman's right leg in the far left drawing, using the quadriceps to carry the gesture and the adductor group to show power. It's gorgeous and something so many modern artists miss. Yes the back is difficult to draw. I'm having a frustrating time trying to remember all of the nuances and illustrate it in space at different angles. Especially since it has so much movement in itself. I remember David Finch stressing this in a drawing video of his.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 3, 2014 2:42:32 GMT -5
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 3, 2014 3:55:22 GMT -5
Great thread. I think to make it easy on myself, I'll separate this into Golden/Silver/Bronze Age mainly based on when each artist did their best work and choose my top ten in no particular order.
Golden/Silver Age Jack Kirby Will Eisner Steve Ditko John Buscema Joe Kubert Dick Sprang Carl Barks Alex Toth Curt Swan Gil Kane
Bronze Age Moebius Neal Adams Jim Aparo Jose Luis Garcia Lopez John Byrne Alan Davis Walt Simonson Frank Miller Barry Windsor Smith George Perez
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 5:36:34 GMT -5
Absolute favorite? OK, gun to my head, it's gotta be Wally Wood:
Wally Wood was great but this cover is un- Wally Wood like. It almost doesn't look like him.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 5:38:40 GMT -5
Here's another vote for Ditko. His Spider-Man is the best. I also like the crazy energy of those rare stories where Ditko inked Kirby, like Hulk #2 or FF #13. There's a few monsters stories in the pre-hero Marvels, too. I think Zzutak is Ditko inking Kirby. Speaking of Hulk, I think Ditko drew the best Hulk face. That's amazing, I always liked this version of the Hulks face as well. It had the Frankenstein monster Look.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 5:42:19 GMT -5
Jose Garcia Lopez was and is a master. I heard that when ever his artwork would come into the DC offices people used to gather around to study it.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 3, 2014 5:54:16 GMT -5
Too many Artists to name just one but if you put a gun to my head I would have to choose Big John Buscema.
It almost brought tears to my eyes to see him finally Draw Superman.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 3, 2014 6:19:00 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on May 3, 2014 9:39:41 GMT -5
Too many Artists to name just one but if you put a gun to my head I would have to choose Big John Buscema.I've been reading The Essential Fantastic Four, Volume 6, reprinting FF #111 to #138, and it's almost all Buscema/Sinnott, and it's so much great art. (And there's one issue by Ramona Fradon! It's awesome! I wish she had done a few more issues. Imagine a Thundra series by Ramona Fradon and Joe Sinnott. Written by Steve Gerber!)
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 3, 2014 11:21:59 GMT -5
I have to give an honorable mention to Sal Buscema. He's still my favorite Hulk artist (the Hulk being my favorite Marvel character). I think what I loved most about Sal's Hulk is how expressive he was.
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Post by Jesse on May 3, 2014 11:24:55 GMT -5
Now I see that EC comics had a ton of amazing talent, but I'm pretty new to the stuff, so off hand don't know any names. Bernard Krigstein is another massively talented EC Comics artist that was decades ahead of his time. This page is from Impact #1 which is available in TPB.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 3, 2014 11:46:09 GMT -5
Now I see that EC comics had a ton of amazing talent, but I'm pretty new to the stuff, so off hand don't know any names. Bernard Krigstein is another massively talented EC Comics artist that was decades ahead of his time. This page is from Impact #1 which is available in TPB. I know he did a lot of amazing work for EC but the one that I always think of when Bernard Krigstein's name is mentioned is the parody of Bringing Up Father in one of the comic book issues of MAD. It is brutal, examining the real-life consequences of the domestic violence depicted in the funnies. When Maggie hits Jiggs with a rolling pin, it's really not a laughing matter.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2014 12:03:09 GMT -5
My absolute favorites, of course, are John Severin, Marie Severin & Russ Heath. Also very, very high on my list are Nick Cardy, Curt Swan, Wally Wood, Steve Ditko, Kurt Schaffenberger, Murphy Anderson, Basil Wolverton, Gene Colan, Tom Sutton, Pat Boyette, Ramona Fradon & of course loads of others.
Post-Silver Age, I share Slam's esteem for Don Newton. Also way up there for me are Mike Zeck, Val Mayerik, John Byrne (through the '70s, at least), Keith Giffen (back during his Kirby klone era), Gene Day & I'm sure lots more who aren't coming to mind at the moment.
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Post by Jesse on May 3, 2014 12:15:06 GMT -5
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