Digital Comic Museum
General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: bminor on October 03, 2016, 01:33:41 PM
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Jack Kirby
He was there practically from the beginning, defining and creating genres for four decades(or is is five)?
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Wally Wood.
Because NOBODY got close to him in what he did.
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Walt Kelly.
One of the best artists and storytellers both to ever grace comics.
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Carl Barks
Because he took you on adventures around the world.
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That's an impossible question IMO.
My choice would vary depending on what age you asked me.
Today it's likely Walt Kelly as well but back in the early 80s it would have been Michael Golden or Mike Ploog. Note the heavy Eisner influence on both.
Kelly was a master of composition and inking. Nobody was better.
-Yoc
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WOW! Myself I like more then one, and the list would be pretty big come to think about it.
Geo
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WOW! Myself I like more then one, and the list would be pretty big come to think about it.
Geo, the list of artists any of us like is long, or we wouldn't be here. There's nobody named here yet that I'm not a fan of. But the idea of the thread is to bite the bullet and pick just one.
With that said, your #1 is Al Williamson and we all know it. ;D
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WOW! Myself I like more then one, and the list would be pretty big come to think about it.
Geo, the list of artists any of us like is long, or we wouldn't be here. There's nobody named here yet that I'm not a fan of. But the idea of the thread is to bite the bullet and pick just one.
With that said, your #1 is Al Williamson and we all know it. ;D
O my, what gave me away?
Geo
PS: Like you Eric, not a bad name among them above.
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I know it is impossible to pick just one. I have dozens of favorites myself.
But, the question is today, pick just one!
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Jerry Ordway, because he drew many DC Comics I liked - "All-Star Squadron", "Infinity Inc." and he was an inker on "Crisis On Infinite Earths".
That said, I have loads of respect for many others, including Will Eisner and Mort Meskin, both of whom had something to do with Sheena's creation.
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Alex Toth. I love the way he develops each panel in relationship to the whole story, and his style is so simple and just perfect.
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Excellent choices all.
Meskin, Toth and Powell are in my top five as well.
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Hmmm I guess I'll go with Al Williamson just based on art alone and because I like science fiction stories. But there are many others I like better on other types of stories.
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I've wrestled with this. So many artists I like: Wood, Williamson, Toth, Evans, blah blah blah. But I think if I had to choose one, it'd be Milton Caniff on the pre-war (1935-1939) Terry and the Pirates. A combination of superb Sickles-influenced art and action-packed stories with great characteris and complex stories were a perfect mix.
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I've wrestled with this. So many artists I like: Wood, Williamson, Toth, Evans, blah blah blah. But I think if I had to choose one, it'd be Milton Caniff on the pre-war (1935-1939) Terry and the Pirates. A combination of superb Sickles-influenced art and action-packed stories with great characteris and complex stories were a perfect mix.
Did Caniff ever really do any comic book art, though, rather than reprints of his comic strip work? (In no way arguing with the quality of his stuff, just wondering if he really qualifies as a "comic BOOK artist".)
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I've wrestled with this. So many artists I like: Wood, Williamson, Toth, Evans, blah blah blah. But I think if I had to choose one, it'd be Milton Caniff on the pre-war (1935-1939) Terry and the Pirates. A combination of superb Sickles-influenced art and action-packed stories with great characteris and complex stories were a perfect mix.
Did Caniff ever really do any comic book art, though, rather than reprints of his comic strip work? (In no way arguing with the quality of his stuff, just wondering if he really qualifies as a "comic BOOK artist".)
Eric I checked with the "Grand Comics Database" and his series was published in Dell, Super Comics, and Popular Comics. So yes Milton Caniff was a comic book artist. I didn't know till I checked either if he was.
Geo
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The only ORIGINAL comic book work Caniff did was to write the scripts for Dell's STEVE CANYON books and to draw the heads on the characters. Ray Bailey did the rest.
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Will Eisner
He took the medium to new heights.
I had to limit myself to the golden age to come up with a quick favorite. Even there there are a lot of greats but few had such a role and impact on the medium as a whole and what other artists were doing with it as Eisner.
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If I had to pick one, Mike Grell.
I tried to draw as well as he did for 20 plus years, until an editor pointed out that I had a cartoony art style and I started working on developing that.
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You're right. I chose my favorite comics artist, rather than favorite comic book artist. My mistake. All Caniff ever did for comic books was retouch Ray Bailey's Steve Canyon faces in a couple of the Dell one-shots.
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Frank Quitely
The man has a way of making superhero comics beautiful and expansive while also capturing their absurdity.
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This is a tough question. I could name different artists for different eras and different genres, but if I had to pick just one, it would John Severin. He was a rock solid draftsman, he never turned in a bad job, he could handle both serious and humorous stories, and I just liked his style!
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Frazetta here. :) Everytime I see his comics work it makes me wish he had done more. Powerful!!
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For me it's got to be Jack Burnley, 'cos at a time when some artwork could be best described as woeful, his was crisp, clean and most of all realistic, a real pleasure to look at - just look at his work on Starman in DC's Adventure Comics.
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I got to interview Jack. Really loved him.