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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 7, 2020 8:56:11 GMT -5
It has always annoyed me that some awesome cover artists were employed to get you to buy a book that had mediocre to bad artwork. I am reading Grant Morrison's Animal Man run and noticed the Brain Bolland artwork on the covers were beautiful. An artist called Chas Truog did the interiors. I never heard of him. He tells the story well enough but I always think that Comics companies are trying to pull a fast one whenever they have a major fan favorite doing the covers but don't do the interiors. Cover to Animal Man # 4  Interior  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 7, 2020 9:06:45 GMT -5
Bolland Flash # 164 Cover  Interiors  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 7, 2020 9:19:09 GMT -5
Bait and switch Paul Gulacy cover
Black Diamond # 4 Don Secrease interior art |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2020 9:45:28 GMT -5
I was gonna say; you can cite a whole lot of independents (especially AC Comics, in the 80s) and a lot of Bronze Age books.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 7, 2020 10:01:24 GMT -5
To be fair, with Bolland you should know you're not getting interior work. After Camelot 3000 and The Killing Joke he's barely done any interior art at all and then only if he's involved in the writing process. The guy is incredibly slow, so there's no way he could maintain any reasonable presence as anything other than a cover artist.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 7, 2020 10:08:00 GMT -5
Standard practice for just about any product. Provide a great cover or image to sell the product no matter if it is great or good or garbage. Many products utilize beautiful women & sexy/provocative images to promote/increase sales. Comics before becoming fan driven collecting was all about a child's impulse purchase. All that mattered was the sale. Why from the very start of comics it has been about having an eye catching attention getter with many e mediocre or poor interior. Just another act of putting on your best face for a night on the town to attract folks that might otherwise ignore you...
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 7, 2020 10:27:18 GMT -5
Any issue of Justice League of America between 1968 and 1974. Adams or Cardy covers, Dillin interiors.
Cei-U!
I summon the perpetual disappointment!
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Post by brutalis on Jun 7, 2020 11:02:38 GMT -5
Any issue of Justice League of America between 1968 and 1974. Adams or Cardy covers, Dillin interiors. Cei-U! I summon the perpetual disappointment! So I'm the odd man out cuz I like Dillin artwork on the League. Never was one to run with the lemming's off the cliff. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 11:12:17 GMT -5
Sort of like real life. Good looking people that turn out to have ugly personalities
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 7, 2020 11:12:27 GMT -5
Any issue of Justice League of America between 1968 and 1974. Adams or Cardy covers, Dillin interiors. Cei-U! I summon the perpetual disappointment! Absolutely. I will add four--  Top row covers: Batman #194 (August, 1967) Cover pencils by Carmine Infantino, with inks by Murphy Anderson. Interiors by Sheldon Moldoff...and even Joe Giella's usually strong inks could not salvage Moldoff. Superboy #160 (October, 1969). Cover art by Neal Adams. Interiors by Bob Brown with Wally Wood inks, and yes, Wood's legendary talent did not lift the Brown work to any level near the cover. Bottom row covers: Daredevil #113 (September, 1974). Cover art by John Romita (arguably, few artists contributed more great covers to lousy interior art than Romita during the Bronze Age). Interiors by Bob Brown with Vince Colletta inks. Justice League of America #138 (January, 1977). Cover art by Neal Adams. Interiors by Dick Dillin with Frank McLaughlin inks. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2020 11:12:44 GMT -5
Any issue of Justice League of America between 1968 and 1974. Adams or Cardy covers, Dillin interiors. Cei-U! I summon the perpetual disappointment! So I'm the odd man out cuz I like Dillin artwork on the League. Never was one to run with the lemming's off the cliff. Me either. I like Dillin. I thought he did a great job. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 11:16:50 GMT -5
Same here. He was a workhouse who did a lot of art. JLA was a tough book to draw. I wonder how many different artists did Avengers during Dillin's tenure on JLA?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2020 11:17:02 GMT -5
I loved Dillin's sexy and powerful women....  and it was his art, combined with a great story, that made Adam Strange a lifelong favorite.....  Loved his Black Canary and the way he handled Red Tornado (another personal favorite). |
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Post by rberman on Jun 7, 2020 11:17:34 GMT -5
Any issue of Justice League of America between 1968 and 1974. Adams or Cardy covers, Dillin interiors. Cei-U! I summon the perpetual disappointment! So I'm the odd man out cuz I like Dillin artwork on the League. Never was one to run with the lemming's off the cliff. As much as the Adams covers, though? |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2020 11:25:00 GMT -5
So I'm the odd man out cuz I like Dillin artwork on the League. Never was one to run with the lemming's off the cliff. As much as the Adams covers, though? I'm a story guy; covers are great but I care about what happens inside and Dillin always delivered, for my reading. I like Adams quite a bit (except from Continuity Comics onward); but, that doesn't mean I should like Dillin any less because he isn't as in-your-face. I liked subtle artist who were good storytellers....Adams was great; but, I have warm spots for Curt Swan, Irv Novick and Dick Dillin. |
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