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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 18, 2019 20:43:04 GMT -5
When I was growing up the most imitated artists were Jack Kirby and Neal Adams. I guess it goes to show their influence in the industry. From what I saw these were some of the artists that aped their styles; Jack Kirby as done by: Barry Smith   Rich Buckler   Jose Ladronn  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 18, 2019 20:46:30 GMT -5
Neal Adams as done by: Rich Buckler  Bill Sienkewicz 
 Tom Grindberg 
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 18, 2019 20:53:16 GMT -5
Kirby taught nearly everyone at Marvel how to tell a story, I'd say they copied that more than his style (though a few did that too). So I would go with Adams for more artistic imitators.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 18, 2019 21:05:51 GMT -5
Good topic!
Back in the day everyone swiped from the major newspaper strip artists... Hogarth, Foster, Caniff. Swiping (and outright imitation) has generally been less prevalent since the silver age, so one of them is still probably the most copied.
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 18, 2019 21:10:02 GMT -5
Dan DeCarlo!
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 18, 2019 21:43:32 GMT -5
I'd say most copied ever was Neal Adams; these days I'd say it's probably Jim Lee
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 18, 2019 22:43:33 GMT -5
Neal Adams as done by: That signature however looks a lot like Frank Frazetta.  I would say Milt Caniff was the biggest influence on comics artists of the '30s and '40s. There were exceptions like Al Williamson and Joe Orlando who were very Alex Raymond, would Wally Wood be somewhat Hal Foster influenced? Who else, Russ Manning, John Severin? Jack Kirby was the height in the '60s and '70s (anyone remember Chic Stone on Nemesis at ACG? Almost more Kirby than Kirby at the time!) I might rate John Buscema up there for the '70s and '80s too, not entirely sure, Keith Pollard and Don Newton maybe for his acolytes? Mike Nasser was obviously Neal Adams Jr., and Bill Sienkewicz at first, but not sure there were all that many others. Buckler did Kirby, Buscema and Adams I would say at various times. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2019 22:51:40 GMT -5
Whomever developed the house style each publisher adopted and asked their artists to follow. DeCarlo for Archie. For Marvel it was Kirby, then Buscema, and then the Image boys in the 90s, I am not as up on my DC house style originators, but there were a few. And so on and so forth. You have the parse the question-is the artist imitating someone because they are inspired by their style, or are they imitating them because they have to adapt their style and adopt that influence to get work from editors who want that style? I'm pretty sure Herb Trimpe was not inspired to copy Liefeld's style in the 90s, but felt he had to to get work, and left to his own devices wouldn't have imitated it, but to meet the demands of the editors who held the purse strings and access to work, he (and a whole host of other artists overt he years) adjusted their style to fit the prevailing house styles. So I wouldn't always assume imitation is a form of flattery in all cases, sometimes, it is necessity to open doors that would otherwise be closed.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 18, 2019 22:56:59 GMT -5
Neal Adams as done by Mike Nassar   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 18, 2019 23:04:02 GMT -5
Keith Giffen doing Jack Kirby-   |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 19, 2019 6:51:27 GMT -5
What's the name of the current Marvel guy who's style looks exactly like Jaime Hernandez?
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Post by MDG on Mar 19, 2019 8:27:08 GMT -5
A lot of artists who emerged in the late 60s-early 70s were influenced by Wally Wood. And Will Eisner influenced storytelling by a many people, though not as many picked up on his drawing style. I can only think a a couple who drew like him: William Messner-Loebs:  Mike Ploog:  |
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Post by brutalis on Mar 19, 2019 8:58:30 GMT -5
Charles Schultz? How many of us as kids grew up drawing Snoopy? Know I must have done thousands of Snoopy drawings and cartoons as a child and youth.
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 19, 2019 9:35:50 GMT -5
Mike Grell jumps out as someone who was clearly influenced by Neal Adams.
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Post by tarkintino on Mar 19, 2019 9:59:36 GMT -5
Whomever developed the house style each publisher adopted and asked their artists to follow. DeCarlo for Archie. For Marvel it was Kirby, then Buscema, What's interesting about Marvel is that it was Romita--arguably more than any artist--had a style so preferred that he inked and/or touched up the work of innumerable artists, including Kirby, Starlin, Buckler, both Buscemas, Colan, Heck---the list goes on an on. Its no wonder his work was used as licensing art more than anyone else in the 70s & 80s (and can be seen son products today). Of course, when Marvel (through Simon & Schuster/Fireside) published the various "origin" TPBs in the 70s, many often featured Romita's paintings, a least until Bob Larkin started producing TPB covers toward the end of that decade. This reminds me of how Neal Adams and Murphy Anderson were tasked to clean up many a DC artist's work, including correcting anatomy, or giving characters (like Superman) the "right" face when the original illustrator was too far from the character standard. |
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