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Post by badwolf on Feb 13, 2019 12:48:44 GMT -5
Hmm...maybe George Perez and John Byrne (whom I loved)...Gene Colan and Carmine Infantino (whom I didn't then, but do now.)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 13, 2019 12:57:35 GMT -5
Probably Neal Adams.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 13, 2019 13:06:36 GMT -5
Probably Kirby and Ditko in 1966 or so.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 13, 2019 13:34:52 GMT -5
Yeah I think it was probably Neal Adams.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 13, 2019 13:35:25 GMT -5
Probably Neal Adams. Specifically because I was hunting Batman issues in university and wanted stuff that wasn't as campy. I could tell the difference immediately when he took over on the covers.
First comic I bought simply because of an artist and because the comic "spoke to me" was the Marvel Graphic Novel featuring Dreadstar. Very neat cover, has a cat on it. It was all kinds of sci-fi bizarre and I had to have it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2019 14:22:12 GMT -5
Carmine Infantino ... especially when he drew Batman! 
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Post by brutalis on Feb 13, 2019 14:28:26 GMT -5
Not to pik a nit but, it is easier to recognize comic strip artists because they worked on the same strips day after day. Recognizing Pat Broderick is more difficult in that his work spanned various books. I mean it's not like Charles Shultz drew 10 different strips over a 10 year stretch . True enough but the question was First Artist Who's Style You Recognized? NOT 1st comic book artist style you recognized. I grew up reading the newspaper strips long before I knew of comic books. |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Feb 13, 2019 14:37:41 GMT -5
Like several others here, it was probably Neal Adams for me.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 13, 2019 15:18:25 GMT -5
Not to pik a nit but, it is easier to recognize comic strip artists because they worked on the same strips day after day. Recognizing Pat Broderick is more difficult in that his work spanned various books. I mean it's not like Charles Shultz drew 10 different strips over a 10 year stretch . True enough but the question was First Artist Who's Style You Recognized? NOT 1st comic book artist style you recognized. I grew up reading the newspaper strips long before I knew of comic books. It's easy to recognize Schultz who only ever did Peanuts, its not like there was a different artist on the Peanuts every week. But Byrne, for example, who did various books would be harder to pin down as being the same artist without a credit box to help a new reader. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 13, 2019 15:25:11 GMT -5
(By the way, hate to be that guy, but "who's" style?) I don't know. Writing it right looked wrong. |
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Post by brutalis on Feb 13, 2019 15:40:15 GMT -5
True enough but the question was First Artist Who's Style You Recognized? NOT 1st comic book artist style you recognized. I grew up reading the newspaper strips long before I knew of comic books. It's easy to recognize Schultz who only ever did Peanuts, its not like there was a different artist on the Peanuts every week. But Byrne, for example, who did various books would be harder to pin down as being the same artist without a credit box to help a new reader. By the time Byrne came along I was/had been reading comics awhile and easily recognizing artistic styles of comic book artists. Marvel comic artists were all very individualistic and have their own unique quirks starting from Kirby to Ditko to Heck to Tuska to Colan to Buscema Bro's and on down the line. Byrne is and was very easy to pick out of the mob to me under any inker beginning with his Charlton work. I would have a harder time recognizing someone who's style changed drastically: such as the very quickly evolving art styling of Barry Windsor Smith or P. Craig Russell or Bill Sienkiewicz. They radically changed styles from their 1st published work. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 13, 2019 15:57:40 GMT -5
It's easy to recognize Schultz who only ever did Peanuts, its not like there was a different artist on the Peanuts every week. But Byrne, for example, who did various books would be harder to pin down as being the same artist without a credit box to help a new reader. By the time Byrne came along I was/had been reading comics awhile and easily recognizing artistic styles of comic book artists. Marvel comic artists were all very individualistic and have their own unique quirks starting from Kirby to Ditko to Heck to Tuska to Colan to Buscema Bro's and on down the line. Byrne is and was very easy to pick out of the mob to me under any inker beginning with his Charlton work. I would have a harder time recognizing someone who's style changed drastically: such as the very quickly evolving art styling of Barry Windsor Smith or P. Craig Russell or Bill Sienkiewicz. They radically changed styles from their 1st published work. Yeah, some artists evolved , for sure. I liked the earlier incarnation of Sienkiewicz as a Adams clone better, though. |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Feb 13, 2019 16:29:59 GMT -5
By the time Byrne came along I was/had been reading comics awhile and easily recognizing artistic styles of comic book artists. Marvel comic artists were all very individualistic and have their own unique quirks starting from Kirby to Ditko to Heck to Tuska to Colan to Buscema Bro's and on down the line. Byrne is and was very easy to pick out of the mob to me under any inker beginning with his Charlton work. I would have a harder time recognizing someone who's style changed drastically: such as the very quickly evolving art styling of Barry Windsor Smith or P. Craig Russell or Bill Sienkiewicz. They radically changed styles from their 1st published work. Yeah, some artists evolved , for sure. I liked the earlier incarnation of Sienkiewicz as a Adams clone better, though. It's fascinating to chart the evolution of an artist but it's also interesting to see in that process the evolution of the industry or a specific company. I've always been intrigued, for example, by the changes in Steranko's work at Marvel. He began there as another Kirby clone but once he was given the opportunity to both write and draw Nick Fury, his art became increasingly innovative and something all his own. I think that says as much about Stan Lee's willingness to adapt and think outside the industry box as it does Steranko's evolution as an artist. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 13, 2019 18:04:49 GMT -5
By the time Byrne came along I was/had been reading comics awhile and easily recognizing artistic styles of comic book artists. Marvel comic artists were all very individualistic and have their own unique quirks starting from Kirby to Ditko to Heck to Tuska to Colan to Buscema Bro's and on down the line. Byrne is and was very easy to pick out of the mob to me under any inker beginning with his Charlton work. I would have a harder time recognizing someone who's style changed drastically: such as the very quickly evolving art styling of Barry Windsor Smith or P. Craig Russell or Bill Sienkiewicz. They radically changed styles from their 1st published work. Yeah, some artists evolved , for sure. I liked the earlier incarnation of Sienkiewicz as a Adams clone better, though.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2019 18:09:42 GMT -5
Hard to say, but John Byrne's art was what got me to start paying attention to the creator credits in comic books. me too.
even as I realized that he was extremely limited in the execution of women's faces (he really only had 2, and the costumes are the way to tell them apart).
discovered him on X-men, and by the time FF, Avengers, Alpha Flight were rolling with him, I recognized his art immediately.
but closely followed by Infantino (Flash) and George Perez
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