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Bite Club: Quitely Is Officially World's Greatest

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Yotsuba & Benjamin!

19:11 / 24.03.04

Right?

Keith, like a scientist

19:15 / 24.03.04

oh god yes. quitely is my hero...

what is this from? Bite Club?

CameronStewart

19:45 / 24.03.04

This was released ages ago, the second and third covers are available now as well:

CameronStewart

19:46 / 24.03.04

And why aren't they showing up.

Moderator please sort this out, please?

I swear, this board has the most annoying fucking html code.

FinderWolf

20:11 / 24.03.04

The interior art is more like Javier Pullido or Brian Hurtt, just to let y'all know. But yah, those Quitely covers are gorgeous.

Tom Coates

20:15 / 24.03.04

I swear, this board has the most annoying fucking html code.

Actually Cameron it uses the only kind of HTML there is - proper HTML. It's exactly the same kind of code that you use to build websites with. Once you've learned it here then you'll be able to use it to build your own sites if you so desire. It's no more complicated than the fake HTML code that a lot of other boards use, and it actually has a use that you can take onto other activities.

Murray Hamhandler

20:38 / 24.03.04

The covers are absolutely lovely. But, judging from the solicitations and preview pages I've seen, I have absolutely zero interest in this book.

Seriously, Vertigo: vampires? Supernatural organized crime? Again?

Matthew Fluxington

20:49 / 24.03.04

That guy looks like Scott Summers!

+#'s, - names

20:54 / 24.03.04

He looks like that guy on king of the hill, the mexican preist action star.

LDones

21:23 / 24.03.04

Monsignor Martinez, you mean. "Vaya con dios."

CameronStewart

21:30 / 24.03.04

All right, fair enough Tom. Sorry for the outburst, that was just a moment of frustration from yet again not being able to get it right.

Sax

06:22 / 25.03.04

Back on topic, Frank Quitely knows his knickers, doesn't he?

chairmanWOW

07:24 / 25.03.04

Yes, I too have a Frank Quitely hardon and as such where can I find galleries filled to the brim with his artwork? What sites would have such galleries? And please, if you know such sites please name them, don't just say that you know about them and them cahnge the topic...

FinderWolf

12:25 / 25.03.04

Actually, the other artist who I feel has a similar style to the interiors of this book is none other than our own Cameron Stewart! He seems to be sort of like Cameron and Javier Pulido fused together...

Haus of Mystery

16:09 / 27.03.04

Quitely draws best bums in comics - FACT.

CameronStewart

23:41 / 27.03.04

I'm curious as to why a book about a vampire crime family has the covers deliberately evoking advertisments - milk, tan oil, and chewing gum. I wonder if it ties into the story somehow.

Haus of Mystery

16:02 / 28.03.04

I think it's about a group of Californian rich hard-bodies as opposed to the usual miserable goth stylings, which could be quite interesting. Brett Easton Ellis did a similar thing in a short story in 'The Informers' which is to my mind one of the most brutal and nihilistic re-imaginings of vampires of recent times.

Ganesh

21:07 / 28.03.04

Mmmm, nice hairy torso/thighs too. He's more than a one-gender-pony, is Our Frank.

Mr Tricks

00:05 / 16.04.04

Has anyone else read this?

I couldn't even finish it...

the cover was about the only this good about it...well the interior art wasn't bad . . . but it didn't help the story at all.

Spatula Clarke

00:17 / 16.04.04

Quitely draws best bums in comics - FACT.

And he's got even better since he stopped drawing them on the top of his characters' necks.

Krug

19:17 / 16.04.04

The comic isn't very good though.

The cover's the best thing about it.

Haus of Mystery

19:47 / 16.04.04

Who'd have thought?

Krug

03:04 / 17.04.04

Ha Ha.

I've never read stuff written by either Chaykin or Tischman though I've heard high praise about Chaykin's American Flagg and only read a handful of issues from the second volume which didn't grab me. I'm not sure I want to try any of their other stuff now.

Sunny

19:51 / 20.04.04

yeah, I didn't even finish it, it, it was so, boring. lovely covers though. I was thinking it doesn't look like its a good comic but the cover's really great.

Sunny

19:52 / 20.04.04

none

Haus of Mystery

20:16 / 20.04.04

I love Chaykin's artwork, but I'm not sure about his stories - I picked up Blackhawk, for pennies, a while ago and could barely make it through it. Not sure about his depiction of women either...

Mr Tricks

23:06 / 20.04.04

I use to enjoy his FIRST COMICS stuff ages ago...

but this story was just SOOOO insubstantial. I'm not even sure if i can handle posting on this thred!!!

superdonkey

00:08 / 21.04.04

THe second volume of American Flagg was shit, but the first had some memorable stories in it..

That Brett Easton Ellis story was really good.. I'd forgotten I'd read it until you brought it up.

wicker woman

04:34 / 21.04.04

Thank god the art on the Bite Club covers is better than Quitely's 'work' *bleah* on the cover for The Disinformation Guide To The Invisibles. Never, ever, ever have I seen the core team rendered in such a puke-tastic manner. And why the hell did he draw BARBELiTH with two stripes? Yeesh...

matsya

04:40 / 21.04.04

oh great. more fuckin' cheescake to stare out from the shelves.

m.

The Falcon

13:35 / 24.04.04

'swrong wi' cheesecake, anyway?

More from World's Greatest!

The Falcon

13:40 / 24.04.04

Also, this is quite manga for FQ.

Spatula Clarke

18:07 / 24.04.04

Wow. Neither of those look like Quitely at first. The first's missing the trademark heavy black outlines. The second - and this might just be me - looks a hell of a lot like Cameron's work.

Char Aina

18:23 / 24.04.04

my favourite thing about quitely is his use of colour, ever since the old missionary man stuff with That Blue for the sky.

the pink wall upthread is another fine example.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

18:43 / 24.04.04

Quitely got styles! Is he doing all of these covers himself, then? As in, drawing, inking, whatever else?

The first one is given away by the chin, as far as being FQ.

The second - yeah! I agree with Randy, except instead of Cameron I'm thinking of someone else whose name I don't know. That's a very clean style... which I've seen a bunch of times, but couldn't place! It doesn't have the chunky blacks (always makes me think of pulpy/noir/old stuff brought bang up to date with POP!) I'd asscociate with Cameron.

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