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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 19, 2014 19:25:11 GMT -5
Jose Garcia Lopez is a marvelous artist. I wonder if he ever did any work for Marvel other than this crossover? Well he did another crossover involving the Hulk and Batman. The story was kind of ridiculous, but the art was some of his best.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2014 19:50:24 GMT -5
This stuff looks fantastic
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jul 21, 2014 14:05:07 GMT -5
My top 5 would be:
5. Mike Zeck 4. Gil Kane 3. Jim Steranko 2. Steve Ditko 1. Neal Adams
I obviously love anyone who has done Spidey. And with Batman, I do enjoy Aparo even if the stories on a lot of the issues he helped illustrate were poor to average at best. LB Cole has yet to do a cover I have not enjoyed...problem is his stuff is so hard to get! Correct me if I am wrong but did he JUST focus on covers? I have a Western issue he did and the interior stuff cannot be him
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 22, 2014 22:10:34 GMT -5
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 22, 2014 23:35:03 GMT -5
I want to say the first thing I read of his work was Batman The Blue The Gray and the Bat, but I could be wrong that it was his work in that. From the examples, it does seem that was his. Unless, I am forgetting I am not sure I've ever seen his work with Marvel. Unless I either owned or do own the Hulk vs comic, as that scene seems familiar. I know I do have one of those reprints of a Marvel/DC crossover books that was written at time before the 90s where that was commonplace. Alan Weiss penciled and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez inked.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Nov 26, 2014 21:17:46 GMT -5
Bumping a thread just to give you guys a look at this beautiful Foster work. How is it that he (and Raymond, Eisner, and Hogarth) could draw this good in the 40s or earlier ? Most Golden Age art Ive seen is poor, with the occasional piece that promises talent. These are just amazing, on a par with some of the modern ultra-detailists. (or is it that the modern guys are on a par with Foster et al ?)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 21:33:47 GMT -5
My Top 10 Comic Book Artists For Everything
(Not in Order)
Steve Rude Jack Kirby Steve Ditko Jose Luis Garcia Lopez John Romita Jr Alex Ross Neal Adams Carmine Infantino Jim Steranko John Byrne
If I had to pick my top 3 ... It would be Rude 1st, Infantino 2nd, and Adams 3rd.
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Post by MDG on Nov 26, 2014 21:45:15 GMT -5
Bumping a thread just to give you guys a look at this beautiful Foster work. How is it that he (and Raymond, Eisner, and Hogarth) could draw this good in the 40s or earlier ? Most Golden Age art Ive seen is poor, with the occasional piece that promises talent. These are just amazing, on a par with some of the modern ultra-detailists. (or is it that the modern guys are on a par with Foster et al ?) Well, strip artists like Foster only produced one Sunday page per week. Most GA comic book artists were bashing out a couple pages a day (or more), or were part of a studio--sometimes a real assembly line. Totally different businesses. Eisner would produce a full Spirit story each week, but with a lot of assistants. He was also overseeing the assembly of the whole Spirit section, which included two other stories.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Nov 26, 2014 22:17:42 GMT -5
Most Golden Age art Ive seen is poor, with the occasional piece that promises talent Every era has it's share of crap. But it's called The Golden Age for a reason, and the greatness was not merely occasional. Lou Fine, for example could be relied on to bring the awesome month to month:
As could Reed Crandall:
And Alex Schomburg:
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Nov 26, 2014 22:19:20 GMT -5
Bumping a thread just to give you guys a look at this beautiful Foster work. How is it that he (and Raymond, Eisner, and Hogarth) could draw this good in the 40s or earlier ? Most Golden Age art Ive seen is poor, with the occasional piece that promises talent. These are just amazing, on a par with some of the modern ultra-detailists. (or is it that the modern guys are on a par with Foster et al ?) Well, strip artists like Foster only produced one Sunday page per week. Most GA comic book artists were bashing out a couple pages a day (or more), or were part of a studio--sometimes a real assembly line. Totally different businesses. Eisner would produce a full Spirit story each week, but with a lot of assistants. He was also overseeing the assembly of the whole Spirit section, which included two other stories. I get that mate, but most of the Golden Age art I've seen is bad by the standard of any age. They seem to stand out...way, way out. I have little to no knowledge of the works of Foster, Hogarth, and Raymond, just a few panels that you see occasionally, I've never read a full story by any, BUT what I've seen, whether by them or assistants, is incredible by the standard of any age. I've seen quite a bit of Eisners work and am impressed by that too. In saying that they only worked on that single Sunday page, does their work flow when collected sequentially ?
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Nov 26, 2014 22:25:30 GMT -5
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Nov 27, 2014 0:14:42 GMT -5
This Matt Baker fellow is pretty good too.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Nov 27, 2014 5:35:32 GMT -5
Bumping a thread just to give you guys a look at this beautiful Foster work. How is it that he (and Raymond, Eisner, and Hogarth) could draw this good in the 40s or earlier ? Most Golden Age art Ive seen is poor, with the occasional piece that promises talent. These are just amazing, on a par with some of the modern ultra-detailists. (or is it that the modern guys are on a par with Foster et al ?) Well, strip artists like Foster only produced one Sunday page per week. Most GA comic book artists were bashing out a couple pages a day (or more), or were part of a studio--sometimes a real assembly line. Totally different businesses. Eisner would produce a full Spirit story each week, but with a lot of assistants. He was also overseeing the assembly of the whole Spirit section, which included two other stories. Exactly. I've been reading the Fantagraphics Valiant collections (almost done with Vol.3) and besides falling in love with Foster's gorgeous artwork and storytelling, I think what I've become most impressed with is Foster's understanding of how the world works and how people lived in his version of the 5th Century. Little details about what a lone adventurer would have to do to survive in the wild, detailed campsite routines, military strategy, use of terrain, etc., shows that he not only studied his history, but given what I've read in the mini biography's Fantagraphics includes in each volume, did his fair share of outdoors living himself. You rarely, if ever, see anything that approaches this level of detail is modern comics given the sedentary, indoors/techy, modern culture most creators grew up in.
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Post by badwolf on Nov 27, 2014 10:27:10 GMT -5
John Byrne, Gene Colan, Michael Golden, both Buscemas, P. Craig Russell, Charles Vess, Jeffrey Jones...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 10:23:32 GMT -5
Contrary to general perception that I don't like anybody, I still have a great fondness for the classic work of:
Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Jim Starlin, Walt Simonson, Craig Russell, Paul Gulacy, Paul Smith, Bernie Wrightson, Paul Neary, Frank Miller, Mike Ploog, Mike Golden, Steve Rude, Sergio Aragones, Billy Graham, Bruce Jones and probably a lot more than don't come to mind at the moment.
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