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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2022 11:54:55 GMT -5
What has caught your eye as great artwork in an obscure (ie non Big 2) independent title? This story called 'Goblin Market' from Pathways to Fantasy #1 (Pacific Comics 1984) is one of my faves. I came across it quite by chance by leafing through a copy I found in a bookstore.
I also pick up anything by Dave Stevens (eg Alien Worlds).....what else have you come across that's good and quite obscure?
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Post by earl on Aug 6, 2022 12:43:51 GMT -5
Is that one of the Hampton brothers? Don Simpson's Border Worlds was always one that I really loved that ended up in the dead letter office (but I guess he kinda finished it later on but I have never read it).
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Post by berkley on Aug 6, 2022 17:56:35 GMT -5
Just had a glance at the poem to make sure but this Goblin Market comic must be based on Christina Rossetti's work of the same title - I wonder why they didn't just illustrate the poem, like BWS did some REH poems in SSoC (any lurking non-comics fans will be scratching their heads at all these acronyms). Though the REH poems were much shorter, maybe that was it.
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Post by badwolf on Aug 6, 2022 18:00:13 GMT -5
Michael Zulli's artwork in The Puma Blues, which ran in the latter half of the 80s, amazed me, particularly his ultra-realistic wildlife renderings.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 6, 2022 19:06:30 GMT -5
Gen Day, Star*Reach #15.....  Christopher Moeller, Rocket Man, King of the Rocket Men #4.....  Francois Schuiten, Cheval Noir #1 (A Fever in Urbicand).....  Tim Sale, The Amazon #1........  |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 7, 2022 9:34:06 GMT -5
Is that one of the Hampton brothers? Goblin Market was adapted and painted by John Bolton. Scott Hampton painted one of the other stories in Pathways To Fantasy. I liked Hampton's artwork on another Pacific series, Silverheels. He seems to have been on the slow side, though, as the three issues contained 15, 8 and 9 pages of the main story respectively. I think it was completed later in a graphic novel, but I've never seen a copy. |
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Post by earl on Aug 7, 2022 11:08:42 GMT -5
If you don't know 'The Black Dragon' by Chris Claremont and John Bolton that came out on Epic in the 80s. His artwork was really great in that one too.
I don't remember what Silverheels was about at all although I had those 3 issues (I think that was what came out), but I know both Bo and Scott Hampton always did beautiful artwork.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 7, 2022 15:24:15 GMT -5
Scott Hampton's The Upturned Stone....  Bo Hampton's The Lost World.....  |
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Post by tonebone on Aug 11, 2022 8:42:37 GMT -5
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Post by tonebone on Aug 11, 2022 8:55:42 GMT -5
Denis Bajram, who wrote and drew Universal War One. I picked up the English translation in a used bookstore for the first 6-issue series. Sadly, the second 6-issue series can only be found in French. His artwork is stunning, especially his spaceship interiors and exteriors. They are so thought out, well designed, and meticulously drawn. And the story is awesome, too.   |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 12, 2022 11:10:27 GMT -5
Denis Bajram, who wrote and drew Universal War One. I have never heard of this before. SOLD! |
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Post by Calidore on Aug 12, 2022 16:40:10 GMT -5
If you don't know 'The Black Dragon' by Chris Claremont and John Bolton that came out on Epic in the 80s. His artwork was really great in that one too. I don't remember what Silverheels was about at all although I had those 3 issues (I think that was what came out), but I know both Bo and Scott Hampton always did beautiful artwork.
Black Dragon was the series that got me into collecting comics in the '80s. I was already familiar with Chris Claremont from my friend's X-Men collection, and Bolton's art just sold me.
Pathways to Fantasy was a treat. I was bummed that only a single issue ever came out.
For my own contribution to the thread, one of my comic boxes in storage has the original Valkyrie Press issues of Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot. Never successfully got into reading it, but that artwork!
If we're just not talking about the Big Two, but the Other Big Ones of yore are okay, then a shout-out must be given to John Totleben on Miracleman.
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 12, 2022 17:22:09 GMT -5
Scott Hampton's The Upturned Stone.... That's just a great story-- IMO one of the best ever published in Heavy Metal magazine. The artwork is the icing on the cake. |
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Post by earl on Aug 14, 2022 6:38:47 GMT -5
Hampton brothers did a bit of stuff for DC. I know they did a couple issues of Saga of the Swamp Thing.
This is going back on memories 30 years back, but I am pretty sure they did some shorts also in some of the Pacific/Eclipse series that were like 'modern' EC comics. I just know if the Hampton brothers were doing the artwork, it was always amazing looking whether the story was good or not.
One that is worth looking for if a Archie Goodwin or Batman fan is the 90s graphic Novel "Night Cries" which is literally one of the darkest tales of the Dark Knight at least up to that point.
Got to wonder how different comics of that era had been if Goodwin would have just concentrated on writing instead of editing.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 14, 2022 12:44:45 GMT -5
Bo Hampton did several projects for Eclipse, including Lost Planet, Luger, and work on the Total Eclipse mini. He had done work for Bruce Jones' Alien Worlds, which carried over from Pacific to Eclipse.
Bo ended up creating the curriculum for the Sequential Arts program at the Savannah College of Art and Design, which became another top school for producing graphic artists. Tom Lyle was teaching there, in his later days.
Of course, Dave Sim used the pair as characters, in Cerebus.
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