Kusunoki's Uploads

[josemas]

Well I know my tastes in artists has certainly changed over the years.

I remember being very enamored with the art of Burne Hogarth when I was a kid but now his work leaves me rather cold.

It was somewhat the opposite with Toth.  I really didn't care for his work when I was young but have come to appreciate his art more and more over the years.

Then there is someone like Neal Adams.  I couldn't stand him when I first saw his early work at DC.  I must have been about nine years old at the time.  By age twelve I had begun to appreciate him a lot more and by my teens I was very much a fan of his art.  Nowadays I'm just kinda' lukewarm on him. 

I could site other examples but you get the drift.

Best

Joe

[kusunoki]

Reading different people's changing tastes is interesting. With Adams, I was absolutely blown away the first time I saw his stuff as a kid in the early '80s (I think it was reprints of his X-Men issues). Now, though, I really couldn't care either way about his work. It's similar to the way I have felt about John Byrne's stuff over the years, with the difference being that now I really don't like Byrne's work at all.

[narfstar]

I think glossy paper and coloring have changed the way some artists like Adam's look. I loved both Adam's and Sterenko back in the day.

[Yoc]

When I first started reading in the early 80s I couldn't stand Kirby, Ditko or Sal B.  Today I still hate Sal .
Cole I loved from day one and still admire his stuff.

[narfstar]

Simon and Kirby good/Simon and Royer bad. I did not like the art on 4th World or when Kirby went back to Marvel his story or art. Kane I liked at DC but his stuff when he went to Marvel was so angular it is some of my very least favorite Marvel covers. Ditko is always hit and miss with me. Not crazy about Wood's work at Marvel. I seem to have a pattern there  I can't think of any Murphy Anderson that I do not like maybe it is a good thing that he never went to Marvel 

[josemas]

I liked Kirby's work right up until the mid-late 70s when his eyesight troubles really started affecting it. 

With Kane I pretty much like all his work although I will say there is a lot of his early work that I have never seen.

For me Ditko's best work is that from the fifties and sixties.

I pretty much like all of Wood's work but will admit that some of the early stuff is a bit crude and the late stuff, when he was sick and using a lot of help from assistant's, is sub par.

Totally agree that Murphy Anderson kept up a consistent high standard.  Love his inking on the likes of Kane and Infantino!

Best

Joe

[kusunoki]

2 more Toth books up on the ftp. Found on DC++, no idea who the scanner might be.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8428/aabc2z.jpg

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5171/aabc3.jpg

[josemas]

Cool!  Toth is always welcome in my book.

I had a chance to meet Buster Crabbe when I was a kid and he was living in the Phoenix area.  He wasn't making movies anymore but was a spokesman for some swimming pool company.

Best

Joe

[Yoc]

Thanks K.
Smallish scans but very welcome on the site.
We've only had one issue so far.

[Yoc]

Before anyone points it out -
YES, I know the two Crabbe books have GIANT cover thumbnails.
I could fix them manually but I'm leaving them as-is for CaptDJ to check and perhaps figure out why it's happened.
They look completely normal to me inside the file and I can't figure it out.

-Yoc

[kusunoki]

Fresh off DC++, this fills the gap between the two issues already up. Thanks to Jon and Uup for the scans.

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4282/cowboysninjuns0201fc.jpg

[Yoc]

Sorry K but I don't see this.
How did you upload it?

[Geo (RIP)]

Sorry K but I don't see this.
How did you upload it?

It's not on the ftp under his name, I checked Yoc just in case he up'd it there.

Geo

[kusunoki]

I thought I sent it to the ftp. I'll try again.

--Whoops. Had saved it in the wrong folder. I moved it to mine. It should be there now.

[Geo (RIP)]

I see it now K, I'll be moving it over to the site shortly.

Thank you for the up.

Geo

PS: When naming a file please don't use any "Special" letters or punctuation it drives the software program crazy. I had to change the name before I moved it over to the download site, not a big deal, just a heads up on it for next time, OK?