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Post by MDG on Oct 15, 2023 18:54:52 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 15, 2023 13:13:55 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 15, 2023 13:03:56 GMT -5
There are only 34 paintings by Vermeer in existence. Michaelangelo only did 8 paintings. Just saying. Yeah, but dozens of sculptures.
The "how much stuff did they do" argument is a tough one in comics because it's only those folks who are willing and able to get steady work for years--the Buscemas, Romitas, Statons, Infantinos, Simonsons, etc--whose work is easily visible to most fans who are seen as prolific.
There are also folks like Toth and Ditko who can't help but use comics to tell stories, but a lot of this later work wasn't commercial and only appeared in some indie books or self-published books if it appeared at all. Wrightson did a lot of concept work for studios that was never meant for public consumption.
In the underground, there are folks like Justin Green and Spain who didn't have many viable options for publication and had to do other kinds of work to make a living.
So the "he didn't do much" argument is a red herring. (My issue w/ Steranko is that, more than many, many creators, he probably had the rep and fanbase to make a deal with a publisher to produce new original work--if he had something to say.)
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Post by MDG on Oct 14, 2023 18:50:35 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 14, 2023 13:35:05 GMT -5
Wasn't that the whole point behind these? (Though "better" may be in the eye of the beholder.)
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Post by MDG on Oct 14, 2023 13:29:02 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 14, 2023 10:58:15 GMT -5
Art Adams is a brilliant artist. I'm not saying that these aren't nice, but I'd like to set a rule that any post defending a comic artist as a comic artist has to use panel pages, not covers or pinups.
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Post by MDG on Oct 14, 2023 10:53:22 GMT -5
As I recall, Giordano had a sentimental attachment to the Charlton Action Heroes, particularly to Sarge Steel, which he had drawn, since as editor he had spearheaded this stretch of Charlton's publishing history. Karl Kesel told me at a con that when he was inking some book w/ Sarge Steel in it (Suicide Squad?), when he received the pages, the Steel character was already inked by Giordano.
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Post by MDG on Oct 13, 2023 10:35:48 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 12, 2023 21:36:51 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 12, 2023 15:13:46 GMT -5
Great, now I have 70s Light Rock going through my head! Well, just pretend that it's a Horse With No Name.
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Post by MDG on Oct 12, 2023 15:12:24 GMT -5
The early stuff of his I saw was OK, but I didn't think it was anything special. It was with the Dr. Fate back-ups in The Flash that he first seemed to be doing something interesting. I was late to the Legion party (not helped by the newsprint an Baxter series), but he hit his stride there. One thing that's not mentioned enough is his (and Fleming's) adaptation of Robert Bloch's Hell on Earth, the first of DC's/Julie Schwartz's graphic adaptations of fantasy/SF stories. And while the others were well-done, only this one seemed to be trying to do more with the format.
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Post by MDG on Oct 12, 2023 9:56:50 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 12, 2023 9:55:08 GMT -5
I may have more to say later--gotta get to work--but Giffen was probably my favorite mainstream artist of the 80s; maybe favorite mainstream artist post-1970. If it wasn't for him, I would've given up on DC many years earlier. In the grim 'n gritty 80s, he was a much-needed source of humor as well as artistic innovator. On things like JL and Legionnaires 3, the rare comic auteur who provided neither the final art nor the final words.
Admittedly, I had a hard time w/ things like Heckler, Trencher, and Legion Five Years Later, though I loved the way they looked.
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Post by MDG on Oct 11, 2023 14:18:12 GMT -5
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