Great Comic Book Artists
Dec 17, 2006 21:13:22 GMT -5
Post by Batman on Dec 17, 2006 21:13:22 GMT -5
All right, let's do this thing.
This thread was inspired by this thread, where I started a poll to gauge the level of interest in doing a "Greatest Comic Book Artists" Showdown, along the same lines as the Superhero and Supervillain Showdowns. I discovered that the knowledge and interest level was not high enough to do something like that, but that at least a few people were interested in a "Great Comic Book Artists" thread, where I and anybody else here who would like to extoll the virtues of their favorites could do so, and maybe that would eventually lead to the interest and knowledge level around here getting to the point where folks do want to do a Showdown, and if not, it would still be a ton o' fun.
All right a few ground rules. Don't get me wrong, if others want to participate, and want to do things a little differently, that's fine. But this is how I'm going to do this.
Just comic book artists; no comic strip artists--that's a whole other subject for another time. Since this came out of the Superhero Showdown, I'm going to concentrate primarily on Superhero artists--so no Harvey Kurtzman, no Carl Barks, no art speigelman. But, even though Joe Kubert is best known for Sgt. Rock, and Barry Smith for Conan, they have both done some superhero work, and Sgt. Rock and Conan are both technically considered part of superhero continuity. (I have the Batman/Sgt. Rock and Spider-man/Red Sonja team-ups to prove it.)
This thread is definitely not for saying "Yeah, McFarlane RULZ!" Some of the folks following this will likely only be familiar with super-heroes from the movies and Saturday morning cartoons. So if you want to do a profile, do it from the point of view of assuming the audience does not already know anything about this subject. Especially important will be including typical or exemplary or illustrative examples of the artist's work. In some cases, some good examples can be found on the web, but a lot of the time you might have better luck finding good examples by scanning from your own collection.
Here's the format I plan to use:
"Just the facts" -- a mini-bio.
"All-time great or personal fave?" -- Did I profile this artist because of his indisputable impact, or because he's a sentimental favorite, or both?
"Pretty pictures" -- Some examples that I hope help get across what I like so much about the particular artist. Some from the web, and some scanned from my collection.
Some of you who know a bit about comic book history will know who I intend to profile first based on the semi-witty title I've come up with for it--"If you don't know Jack, you don't know jack."
This thread was inspired by this thread, where I started a poll to gauge the level of interest in doing a "Greatest Comic Book Artists" Showdown, along the same lines as the Superhero and Supervillain Showdowns. I discovered that the knowledge and interest level was not high enough to do something like that, but that at least a few people were interested in a "Great Comic Book Artists" thread, where I and anybody else here who would like to extoll the virtues of their favorites could do so, and maybe that would eventually lead to the interest and knowledge level around here getting to the point where folks do want to do a Showdown, and if not, it would still be a ton o' fun.
All right a few ground rules. Don't get me wrong, if others want to participate, and want to do things a little differently, that's fine. But this is how I'm going to do this.
Just comic book artists; no comic strip artists--that's a whole other subject for another time. Since this came out of the Superhero Showdown, I'm going to concentrate primarily on Superhero artists--so no Harvey Kurtzman, no Carl Barks, no art speigelman. But, even though Joe Kubert is best known for Sgt. Rock, and Barry Smith for Conan, they have both done some superhero work, and Sgt. Rock and Conan are both technically considered part of superhero continuity. (I have the Batman/Sgt. Rock and Spider-man/Red Sonja team-ups to prove it.)
This thread is definitely not for saying "Yeah, McFarlane RULZ!" Some of the folks following this will likely only be familiar with super-heroes from the movies and Saturday morning cartoons. So if you want to do a profile, do it from the point of view of assuming the audience does not already know anything about this subject. Especially important will be including typical or exemplary or illustrative examples of the artist's work. In some cases, some good examples can be found on the web, but a lot of the time you might have better luck finding good examples by scanning from your own collection.
Here's the format I plan to use:
"Just the facts" -- a mini-bio.
"All-time great or personal fave?" -- Did I profile this artist because of his indisputable impact, or because he's a sentimental favorite, or both?
"Pretty pictures" -- Some examples that I hope help get across what I like so much about the particular artist. Some from the web, and some scanned from my collection.
Some of you who know a bit about comic book history will know who I intend to profile first based on the semi-witty title I've come up with for it--"If you don't know Jack, you don't know jack."
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