There are a few artists I admire although I don't care for their stories but usually I like both artist and story lines
George Herriman - Krazy Kat
Carl Barks - Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge
Walt Kelly - Pogo
Hal Foster - Prince Valient
Will Eisner - The Spirit
Sam Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes
Barry Smith - early Conan

Uderzo ( just undergone a restoration...time to raid the piggy bank..!)

http://www.asterix.com/books/grand-collect...ep-by-step.html

you won't regret lightening your piggy bank

You got these DP?

no but I am being patient on eBay hoping a NM used copy will eventually turn up and I can bid on it....very clever strip

on my 2nd copy of Asterix the Gaul - keeping it for display cuz the first is kind of coming apart from reading

Asterix is just fantastic.

Uderzo, yes

From contemporary comics, I really like Frank Quitely, Dave McKean & Steve Dillon... not sure who else.

Just don't buy the Uderzo solo albums, especially the last three ones, utter, utter crap.

Herge.

Yes, I love his style, brilliant.

Old school (being a brit) the likes of Frank Bellamy and Don Lawrence still look wonderful today. I think it was probably Don Lawrence's Trigan Empire that was the first art I was really blown away with (collected now in big editions for stupid money though.

Next up for me was Carlos Ezquerra in 200AD, who seemed much better than the other artists.

I guess I would have discovered US comics around this time. Jack Kirby's work still looks amazing, especially the Thor stuff. Always a big fan of John Romita as well (I much preferred his classic Spidey to the skinny Ditko version). Everyone should own Jim Steranko's run on Nick Fury as well, groundbreaking stuff.

Neal Adams on Batman and Green Lantern.

I love John Byrne's X-Men stuff as well. Simple and clear but beautiful and a great story teller.

Quite a lot of 'hot' artists over the past few years look very flashy but sometimes you can hardly make out what is going on in some of the panels.

John Romita Jr is great as well, very underated I think, his run on Spider-Man was great.

Who else? John Cassady, Hitch/Nearly, Alan Davis....I'll buy anything Gary Frank does (his run on Hulk was up there with Byrne's X-Men for me). Travis Charest was someone I really liked, although his highly detailed work means I think he struggles to do a monthly. You can spot his covers straight away though.

And best for drawing women (guilty sin) is Adam Hughes. :wub:

(worst, by a mile, is Rob Liefeld. So bad it's hard to describe)

I love too many to list but Basil Wolverton is probably my favorite.

Hiroya Oku - Gantz
Brian Holland - The Killing Joke(Batman) & Judge Dread
Daniel Clowes - Ghost world
Steve Ditko - Spiderman
Jack Kirby - Marvel
Mark Bagley - Ultimate Spiderman
Dave Gibbons - The Watchmen
Katsuhiro Otomo - Akira
Jamie Hewlett - Tankgirl
Frank Miller - Sin City
David Lloyd - V for Vendetta
Jeff Smith - Bone
Tsutomu Nihei - Blame!

George Herriman
Taiyo Matsumoto
Bill Sienkiewicz
Will Eisner
Sooyeon Won
Seth
Anonymous Boy
Sina
Daniel Clowes
Junji Ito
Craig Bostick
Ted McKeever
Katsuhiro Otomo
Osamu Tezuka
Hiroaki Samura
Kent Williams
Klaus Janson
Teddy Kristiansen
Alex Toth
Joe Kubert
Others...

I generally prefer simple work rather than overly-detailed stuff.

Well... :rant:

OUR David Lapham, of course.
Forum member.
'Nuff said!


Excelsior!

^ I forgot David Lapham. :ohdear:

Simon Bisley & Glenn Fabry for me

:ohdear: thanks.

joakim pirinen

he's swedish and i'm not sure if his works have been translated to english but check him out if you can, amazing stuff.

Super-Skrull has the power of a bunch of you!!!

Well. Can I come in here (off-topic-ally, I know) to say that the "motion comics" are fantastic? (Moore's) Watchmen, and (rather recently) Maleev's take on Spider-Woman rank among my all-time faves. They're not "cartoons"/"animated" as such, but something altogether different.

Go "check 'em out dudes", they're all over the inter~web!

Ron Searle

When I was 14-15 my cousin introduced me to horror comics, I wish I remembered the names of them, It was tales from the crypt type stuff which gave me amazing night terrors :devil:
If I had to say fav I'd go Jamie Hewlett/Alan Martin's Tank Girl she my heroine. What more could one want in a girl - drives a tank - drinks spunk brew & fucks a kangarooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
'nother fav from back in da day The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers 'n Fat Freddy's Cat /Gilbert Shelton :devil:
"While your out there smashing the state, don't forget to keep a smile on your lips & a song in your heart"

Winsor McCay: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/333.jpg

Did Herriman also do the illustrations for 'Archy & Mehitabel?' Cos it sure looks like him...


Another vote for the rather godly Winsor McKay.

Didn't you ask for advice on Los Bros Hernandez some time ago (or was that someone else)? Not for you, then... :unsure:

I'm usually more interested in the stories than the drawings, and it's sometimes hard to say whether I like a certain artist for the stories or for their art. Most of my favourites below have been working with excellent scripts (by themselves, or by others), but are also great and personal artists:

Altan
Horacio Altuna
Max Andersson
Peter Bagge
Baru
Enki Bilal
Vaughn Bodé
Francois Boucq
Chester Brown
Yves Chaland
Howard Chaykin
Daniel Clowes
Robert Crumb
Claus Deleuran
Julie Doucet
Will Eisner
F’Murr
André Franquin
Jean Giraud / Moebius
Chester Gould
Hergé
Gilberto Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez
George Herriman
Martin Kellerman
Gérard Lauzier
Joakim Lindengren
Jan Lööf
Frank Margerin
Don Martin
Joe Matt
Max
Dave McKean
José Munoz
David Nessle
Joakim Pirinen
Hugo Pratt
Art Spiegelman
Jacques Tardi
Marten Toonder

Unless the personality's there, it's hard for me to fully appreciate just plain good craftsmanship, I'm afraid.

:o

I didn't know he was a member here. Just like to say that I loved Stray Bullets, one of the few non-superhero comics I always used to buy. Great stuff :applaud:

Read here: http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/thefall/...=21529&st=0&hl=

On a related note, I've decided to read every single issue of Hawkman EVER to see if there are other bits nicked for Fall songs. I may be some time...

I haven't got round to it, yet. I will, I will... :ohdear:

Cool beans :D

I love Jaime's comics primarily because of his brilliant storytelling, but his art is hard to separate from that and when it comes to using contrast between black and white, for example, he's a master - a couple of examples:

The art and storyline of Blame! is pure cyber-punk heaven. Thoroughly mesmerizing 10 volume manga.

wiki here!

I agree about the ability to tell a story being the most important, that's what I value the most. So many artists seem to show off and dazzle with their technical brilliance but for all that seem unable to tell a basic story.
I think that's why I prefer simple styles, because the eye never dwells too long on a single frame and if there's too much to take in you either lose the pace or get tired.
Those Jaime examples are great!

Another thing that irritates me with a lot of comics is when the dialogue/narration tells the entire story and the pictures are just reiterations of what's written or just superfluous decoration. In quite a few comics I've read you could take the pictures out and still be able to understand what's happening.

Matt Brinkman

http://www.artloversnewyork.com/zine/wp-co...att__eating.jpg

http://www.artandculture.com/media/show?me...edia_type=Image


Chris Forgues (aka C.F.)

http://www.indyworld.com/indy/spring_2004/...mages/cover.jpg

Neckface

http://janisvahn.com/wp-content/2009/02/neckface-2.jpg

http://api.ning.com/files/DhFoEGRtzw7BX6m4...Ka/neckface.jpg

Bestall anyone?

The first Jaime example is also an example of the opposite of this - it's the first page of a story that, IIRC, is told completely, or almost, without dialogue/narration. We see a woman who is typing, and intervened are scenes that she's either writing about, thinking about, or that have happened to her. It also seems that the scenes/memories are unpleasant to think about. But no narrator tells us what it's all about, that's something we have to make up for ourselves. Still, there's definitely a story in there.

This is also an example of one of those things that can be done with comics but not so easy with other media: you are able to watch all the intervened scenes at once, as a whole. You can stop and view the page for a while, to let everything sink in. On film, you would see all the scenes one at a time.

With your excellent usericon, surely you want to add Rory Hayes there?
Love his early Bogeyman comics, as collected in Where Demented Wented.
Just got into him and Matt Brinkman at the same time, so very pleasing synchronicity there: though I can't find Matt Brinkman stuff online cheaply. Would love to get Tetrahoid Heights but I've only seen it at 50 quid odd.

Who did The Crow :confused: I saw a copy of it 20 odd year ago & remember being pretty blow away by it.

The thing i like about Rupert is the way that there are often things in the air: magic carpets, paper darts flying about for example; every bit of the visual world is active somehow...

The big drawings in the books, like the one you showed, are always tours-de-force, or tour-de-forces whichever it might be.

Don Lawrence

Famous for The Trigan Empire, and other things ( well, it was the 70's)

http://www.carriestrip.com/VAULT/11-NOVEMB...-%20Dentist.jpg