My favorite comic book artist of all time should be your favorite too if you knew what was good for you.
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My favorite comic book artist of all time should be your favorite too if you knew what was good for you.
Peep some more of the sketchbook in the Blu Cheez gallery.
Double click the images to view them at full size.
top 5 artist in no order
Jim lee
andy kubert
oliver coipel
frank quitley
john cassaday
honorable mention
carlos pacheco
There was a time when John Byrne was my favorite artist too. As time has passed, and my artistic tastes have evolved, he’s no longer my favorite, but I still hold him in extremely high regards. He’s one of those guys that can draw EVERY character well.
I always have to give love Mr. Steve Dillon. Who with the help of the best writer not named Alan Moore, One Garth Ennis, put together to two best books I have ever read. The Preacher and The Punisher Max line.
I urge anyone to check out Preacher it really redefines comics the way Wacthmen did decades ago.
The only artists that can make me buy a comic based on artwork alone (regardless of crappy storyline) are Art Adams and Todd McFarlane.
My favorite Byrne books were just about ALL the She-Hulk covers from her “Sensational She-Hulk” comic in the 90’s.
^ Teh Ric, soooo many people are so unaware of Preacher. I bought and read every issue. Garth Ennis is banonkers. You ever read Hitman? Y The Last Man? Sandman? Going back a lil further, Mage? Fables? Real literature right there.
Co-sign Todd McFarlane – for me he’s the g.o.a.t. I’ll never forget seeing Venom for the first time in ASM #299 – scary as f*ck.
Dave Berg @ Mad was my fav and JB is a close second…I woulda mentioned Stan Lee, but it seems like I woulda been his only supporter!
C. Jack – I have gone all the way with Yorick (ll) that was possible.
I loved the Hitman run to no end. Sandman doesnt get enough dap in my personal opinion that book was monstrous and was likely 20 years ahead of its time.
One of these days Ill post my laundry list of TBP gems that are sitting in my library.
Rising Stars, Transmet (complete), Ennis’ complete run on Punisher INCLUDING – “Kills the Marvel Universe.” Just for a taste.
Classic and clean…i always like Byren.
Jim Lee still takes the cake for me though
I fucks with Mignola (Hellboy, BPRD). kinda of throwback, but I like the style. Also, where is the love for Kirby and Romita?!
Not to throw rocks, but I always felt McFarlane was overrated, some of his proportions bother me.
I developed a new love for Kirby in the last year as I have found some of his early work totally groundbreaking, but my heart still rests with Byrne’s catalog
Teh, you pulled out the “Rising Stars”. Wow. A friend of mine works at DC so the Y.T.L.M. complete was a must. Please start collecting Fables in trade form. Classic material. Garth is one of my faves, but gotta catch up on his Punisher run. Same with Transmetropolitan series.
Uhm, Sandman is the new Watchmen.
Yeah I said it.
A no love at all in this tread for Frank Miller?
And Hitmen must be the most slept on of them all.
Frank Miller has enough drops on this site. I’d like to see more drops about these other cats.
frank miller is a hack DK2 sucked balls and the spirit movie sucks 300 really wasn’t that great a book and and it was mad gay
ohhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit Rising Stars…
That book was my jam back in teh day. I won the first TPB off a wizardworld.com online contest, and got hooked (no Robin Williams). That joint had the most pathos, the best sense of tragic destiny, that i have ever seen… except then they switched up the artists and the drawins went to shite. But still top 5 dead or alive series ever.
Then again, what is a John Byrne w/o a Terry Austin?
Byrne’s best work was with the X-men, Hulk , and the Fantastic four!
Dallas, CJ or anyone: any of ya’ll read Brooklyn writer Jonathan Lethem’s novel “Fortress of Solitude”? I blew it off at the time but now think it’s a major work and one of the recurrent themes is about the protagonists love of comics, and the allegiances he and his friends in ’70s and early ’80s “Boerum Hill” had.
I don’t know really mainstream comics beyond the names but I keep thinking those parts of “Fortress” would really especially interest ya’ll. I don’t want to say much about the rest of the book because it’d be too reductive but he tries to do some very difficult things in terms of writing about race and drugs and community and pull it off as well as could be done (i.e. there’s no right or easy way, you just gotta try.)
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One more for McFarlane….his Spiderman is the one that stays in my mind.
Combat Jack Says:
February 21st, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Then again, what is a John Byrne w/o a Terry Austin?
^^^^^^^^^^^no diggity!!! ill artist plus ill inker(i hate the way byrne ikn’s his own shit) cant go wrong!!!
Yeah, I have to co-sign the fact that Terry Austin is the master embellisher for Byrne like Klaus Janson was that dude to aid Miller
i’ll give you that d…..miller/janson was the start of the “dark era” in comics a la the shadows, dark knight etc with the whole daredevil/elektra/bullseye joints. good times…………
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x-men in the byrne era was great too………he was that guy
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i must admit i byrne stan for years. i messed with him from doom+1 up to some of the namor stuff… his run on the xmen was a flawless victory. if you read some of the posts on his forum, dude is out there. definately a mad genius.