[POLL] Greatest Comic Book artist alive today?
GQ11479
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Webby
>My money's on Alex Ross
Tied for me between the guy that Penciled Deadpool #1 (Dunno the name)
and the guy that pencils Iron Man (Chen?)
Sorry, the onyl names I realy pay attention to are th writers. The art
is just kinda "there". Anythings fine unless its ugly
Peter
call Zircher the greatest alive.
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>My money's on Alex Ross
Uhhhh.......guys, Gene Colan is still alive.
BRICK
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Vote for: Vess, Kaluta, or Perez depending on the genre...
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Lee
standard everyone else is compared by plain and simple.
Alex Ross is a good painter and all that, but Jim Lee just has staying
power...
Just my 2 cents.
Shrike
On 14 Jan 1999 23:14:07 GMT, gq1...@aol.com (GQ11479) wrote:
Aaron Thall
Pedro Ramos
John Romita
John Buscema
John Byrne
Marc Galindo
seen his pencils? Those alone blow everybody else away. Besides, there's
more to comic art than dynamic figure drawing. Look at Dave Gibbons in
Watchmen. He gives us a complete sense of that world just through the
background images! Now look at George Perez. For all his greatness at
figures, his backgrounds are often way too cluttered, and rarely offer
additional information. I still think Gil Kane always had the best sense of
the human figure, and John Byrne has the best compositions and facial
expressions. But overall, I still rate Jack Kirby, in his prime, as the
best. He did it all. Dynamic poses, interesting camera angles, gadgets and
costumes so distinctive they are instantly recognizable even today. He not
only created characters, but whole worlds, and his comics always demanded
that your eye follow the action, and keep turning the pages. That's not an
easy thing to do.
But getting back to Ross...other comic pencillers occassionally paint
there work, too, you know. John Byrne, Jerry Ordway, Perez, Steve Rude
those Nexus covers are really well done!), etc. Where is it written in
stone that a comic "artist" can only be the penciller? I've often seen great
inkers make bad pencils look good, and also (unfortunately) the reverse.
Often it's not only the penciller involved, but the inker and colorist, as
well. Look at Frank Miller's Daredevil. That comic owes just as much to
Klaus Jansen and Lynn Varley (sp?) as it does Frank (visually). They did the
same thing on Ronin and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Now go back and
look at Watchmen. Every panel, sequence, page, and issue show brilliant
comic art direction, often with a very limited color pallette. It's really a
shame that the lessons of Watchmen and Batman:TDKR have become distant
memories to so many of today's "favorite artists".
Steven Blunt wrote in message <36b0fb68...@news.supernews.com>...
>On 14 Jan 1999 23:14:07 GMT, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe
>gq1...@aol.com (GQ11479) wrote:
>
>>My money's on Alex Ross
>
>In all fairness, Ross isn't really a comic artist, he's a painter and
>compairing him to the pencillers is a bit unfair.
>
>cya
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RussDalton
Steven Blunt
mk
and George Perez in there too.
If I had to pick just one, probably Buscema.
--mk
MicroZone
Chris Strong
storytelling all within the traditional pencil & ink comic book style --
Jim Lee
Kris Strong
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el Panch
later stuff has been kinda weak. Uhm...Pacheco is the sh!t and just keeps
getting better. I know many people don't like him, but Joe Madureira is a
personal fave. Gee...this is a hard question. Eisner? Lee? Otomo?
Gibbons? Miller? Argh.
All I know is that it's _not_ Rob Liefeld.
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Yup , Alex is da man
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TheTangent
I would have to say John Byrne if I had to choose only one. I believe he has a
classic style and noone has matched it (IMHO).
Other favorites would include: Geoge Perez, Jack Kirby, Todd MacFarlane, and
Jim Lee.
Least favorite artist for me would be none other that Keith Giffen. I know a
lot of people liked his style, I just couldn't get into it.
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Paul Hartshorne
way past his best, but in his prime he was the best comic
artist in the business.
Paul
Terrafamilia
GQ11479 wrote:
> My money's on Alex Ross
Stepping out of the little English-speaking-world box, I would have to
go with Ryoichi Ikegami. His stuff is AWESOME. Nice clean lines, women
who are beautiful without being unrealistic, men who are handsome to the
point of being pretty without any lack of masculinity, action that
moves, moves, moves. It's to drool over.
Terrafamilia
Steven Blunt
"Marc Galindo" <marcg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
[in reply to me saying Ross as a painter should not be compared to
pencilers]
>No, Ross is a comic artist who prefers painting his finishes. Have you ever
>seen his pencils? Those alone blow everybody else away.
Nope never seen them, any notable unpainted work I should check out?
As for the subject, I really don't know. Jim Mahfood perhaps.
Ron Evry
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dean anderson
storytelling created an entirely new way to look at a comic book page
(for readers and creators alike). His books have such a cinematic feel
to them that they are as close to motion pictures as a comic book can
come.
Dean
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While I have to say that I'm a monster fan of Alex Ross myself (At last count
I own 8 original pages including an Astro City cover) and think that he has
the potential to be one of the best artists of all time, I can't bring myself
to that he is the best artist alive today.
Will Eisner has produced a body of work that in my mind is virtually
unequaled in the comics field. While artists like Ditko and Kirby and Adams
and Kane, etc. etc. did wonders for the superhero genre I truly believe that
Eisner has made the greatest contribution to the "comic book". While one can
argue that Eisner's Spirit is a "superhero", I prefer to look even further to
Eisner's "true-to-life" graphic novels of his later years. The emotion
portrayed in his art is beautiful to behold in ways that today's "Wizard Hot
Artists" can only dream. If you have never read Eisner at all or have only
limited yourself to Spirit reprints, track down any of his later graphic
novels. You'll realize what the comic art form should aspire to.
GQ11479
Marc Galindo
GQ11479 wrote in message <19990121180416...@ng-ch1.aol.com>...
MicroZone
unequaled in the comics field. While artists like Ditko and Kirby and Adams
and Kane, etc. etc. did wonders for the superhero genre I truly believe that
Eisner has made the greatest contribution to the "comic book". While one can
argue that Eisner's Spirit is a "superhero", I prefer to look even further to
Eisner's "true-to-life" graphic novels of his later years. The emotion
portrayed in his art is beautiful to behold in ways that today's "Wizard Hot
Agreed. :-) I was lucky enough to find three original Spirit sections from
1947. As soon as the custom frames are done (you DON'T put Eisner art in store
bought frames. ;-) they will PROUDLY be displayed in my living room.
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Check out this web site for a sample:
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/steranko
Tony
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I really don't think anyone can touch Steranko, although he hasn't drawn a
comic page since 1984! Every genre he has touched he has created
grounbreaking work. Nick Fury in a pulp comic, Captain America in a superhero
comic, At the Stroke of Midnight in a horror comic, My Heart Broke in
Hollywood in a romance comic, Chandler in a detective comic, Outland in a
science fiction comic, Repent Harlequin, Said the Tick-Tock man in a
surrealist comic, and The Exile at the Edge of Eternity in Superman #400 in a
Biblical comic. All visually stunning, wildly entertaining works of art.
John Langevin Jr.
GQ11479
right there
todd Murry
we take for granted), Dave Gibbons and Jose Garcia-Lopez have a claim on
the best overall professional cometency, but you gotta figure in style,
which is highly subjective. My vote is...
John Byrne
Todd C. Murry MD, PhD
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Pedro Ramos
>In article <19990121180416...@ng-ch1.aol.com>,
> gq1...@aol.com (GQ11479) wrote:
>> Jim Steranko? What kinds of stuff did he do?
>>
>Check out this web site for a sample:
>http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/steranko
I've just checked it out and... WOW!
ConnMoore
and surpasses it. I miss him in mainstream comics a lot.
Barry
brenno
brenno
eastonbrown
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Rob Liefeld!
Ha- Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Oh thank you. That has really cleared my depression.
Nik
cover..he did some great covers for Marvel...He allso did one of my
favourite pics of the hulk ever...
Does Paul Gulacy still do stuff for Marvel..I always liked his work but I
think there was a little bit of Steranko imitation in his work
Nik
(by the way..did anyone see the nick Fury telemovie yet? If so how did
Hasslehoff do as NF???? I'm a brit and I havent seen it over here yet)
Marc Galindo wrote in message <788c84$2tj$1...@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
>Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and X-Men, to name but two...
>
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>GQ11479 wrote in message <19990121180416...@ng-ch1.aol.com>...
Nik
Tony!!!!
Nik
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>In article <19990121180416...@ng-ch1.aol.com>,
> gq1...@aol.com (GQ11479) wrote:
>> Jim Steranko? What kinds of stuff did he do?
>>
>
>Check out this web site for a sample:
>http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/steranko
>
Nik
Nik
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Nik
Speaking of Xmen..What about Jim Lee?
Nik
ConnMoore wrote in message <19990122200945...@ng23.aol.com>...
Lil' Spammer
management, or did he just get bored of doing superhero books? He did some
really awesome stuff.
Nik wrote in message <78fnsv$3qj$1...@quince.news.easynet.net>...
Lil' Spammer
his brother John, but he was very consistent, and best of all, he always
stuck with an assignment. He was better when he did his own inks though; I
didn't like John Stanisci's or Bill Sienkiewicz' inks over his work.
Nik wrote in message <78fnqu$3pv$1...@quince.news.easynet.net>...
Nik
Nik
say it depended on who inked it..I hated his old avengers stuff except the
ones with Man Ape and the sons of the Serpent I think...
Nik
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Nik
think i remeber him doing was one of the first Xmen graphic novels and that
was 'coff!' years ago
Nik
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brenno
ain't so popular with the US-public...but being european I probably find
him more similar to european artists (like Pratt, just to quote the best
one I can think of) and that's why I like him...besides, it occures to me
to be some sort of generational stuff...I know young readers adore
McFarlane, whose style I just can't stand...;-)
Nik <bar...@easynet.co.uk> scritto nell'articolo
MNorton678
MIchael
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mnort...@aol.com (MNorton678) wrote:
> Greatest comic artist alive today? Thats an easy one! Alex Ross. hands down.
>
He paints bloody gorgeous pictures, but his sense of flow, story layout and
storytelling isn't so strong. Rather weak IMHO.
Kevin "Ramiel" Schmidt
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Glenn Herdling
inked by Ernie Chan.
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Lil' Spammer wrote:
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> Are you kidding?!?! Sal was really good. Maybe he wasn't "up there" like
> his brother John, but he was very consistent, and best of all, he always
> stuck with an assignment. He was better when he did his own inks though; I
> didn't like John Stanisci's or Bill Sienkiewicz' inks over his work.
>
> Nik wrote in message <78fnqu$3pv$1...@quince.news.easynet.net>...
Nik
hair..It used to look like a badly drawn palm tree! :)
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GothGrl69
IMHO, it's Bernie Wrightson
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