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Ex

10:40 / 13.09.06

Quantum said elsewhere, and I hope he doesn't mind me quoting:

I reckon we'd be good Quitely characters, or maybe Bond to make us even sexier.

Who would you want to draw you in the comic version? Or indeed, if your tastes run more to other media, what artist would you get to represent you?
I'd be an Alison Bechdel drawing, given half a chance. I'm thinnish and have short hair and spectacles, so I fit the type. And I feel kind of like a black and white pen drawing; I don't think I'd get much out of being colour illustrated, or better shaded. Some tiny people with lovely expressive hands here.
(And my favourite, but not safe for work one, here.)
Except many of her characters are going through rough patches at the moment, so I'm bidding for Bechdel circa five years ago, when they were all looking happier.

I will accept either grimly realistic assessments (a lovely Barbeloid I haven't seen around here lately once said that realistically, he'd be a Lucien Freud) or aspirational nonsense ('Only Van Gogh can capture my inner luminous quality').

10:57 / 13.09.06

I'd be an Alison Bechdel drawing Ooh, good one. I'd agree, but In My Mind only Simon Bisley can capture my inner luminosity and Slaine-ness. Actually his Doom Patrol cover looks like some Barbepeople I know, also a bit like Alan Moore if you squint.
I'm sure there was an old old thread similar to this where most people wanted to live in a Morrison/Quitely world.

11:12 / 13.09.06

Edward Gorey.
That or Larry Van Pelt.

pointless & uncalled for

11:12 / 13.09.06

Am I allowed to say Banksy. I know he is by no means a comic book illustrator but I love the stencil style of his graph.

pointless & uncalled for

11:16 / 13.09.06

Apparently I am. Also I don't seem to read the original post either. What a fucking idiot.

Ideally I would be photographed by either Jan Saudek, James Nachtwey or Jurgen Teller, all of whom portray humaness in a very direct and open way.

paranoidwriter waves hello

11:35 / 13.09.06

I would like to be drawn by our very own, talented, the Fool. Hir style is so simple, refined, uncomplicated, and full of amazing complementary colours. I want to exist in that world. Seriously. Plus, I'd love to see how ze would represent "paranoidwriter", visually.

But if not The Fool, among others I've always really liked Barry Windsor-Smith's work. I can't accurately describe what it is I like about hir style: there's something simple, classic; something elegant and almost Renaissance about hir art, I think. I also seem to vividly remember a lot of hir panels from different comics during my collecting days. e.g Uncanny X-men 205.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:14 / 13.09.06

Oh, this is easy and I was just thinking about it last night, I would loooooove to be drawn by our very own Cameron Stewart.

Barring that, Philip Bond. I've always wanted to be a Bond girl...*snicker snicker*

13:16 / 13.09.06

i think duncan fegredo would do me quite well, if he agreed to ignore the beer gut.
i'd get him hopped up on buckfast and classic samurai movies first, and i'd ask him to give me different tattoos in every panel to represent the changable nature of my opinion of such things.

beyond that, i'd let the geezer go where he went.

13:56 / 13.09.06

Not Lucian Freud! Not Lucian Freud!

14:54 / 13.09.06

R. Crumb, I think.

I'd say Peter Bagge, but he does best with angry ranting or dew-eyed weepiness.

I'd far rather sneer and quip and shrug and sigh in thick black lines like Harvey Pekar does.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

15:05 / 13.09.06

Yup, Cameron. No doubt.

miss wonderstarr

15:26 / 13.09.06

Yes: Steve Yeowell circa Zenith Phase III

Possible: Brendan McCarthy

Chris Bachalo circa 1992-3

Steve Dillon circa Rogue Trooper Hit Two

No: Dave Gibbons

Ron Smith

~ picky, much

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:27 / 13.09.06

Ron Smith! Oddly bulbous, grinning faces! Perfectly round muscles! Strangely immobile action tableaux!

Yes. Not him.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

15:44 / 13.09.06

Phillip Bond for when I am a super hero.

Phil Jiminez for when I am a hearthrob.

miss wonderstarr

15:53 / 13.09.06

Oh, or Massimo (don't know why I still remember his first name) Bellardinelli. Artist on Ace Trucking Company, Moon Runners, Mean Team. The only comic-book artist of the 20th century to still employ the aesthetics of ancient Egypt, ie. every figure is either 90 degree profile or starily full-face, and is frozen in a broken-boned pose like jointed action figures wrenched into disabled postures by a bored child. Kills every single script he works on.

miss wonderstarr

16:01 / 13.09.06

I mean not him.

Steve Dillon, of course, would draw every single woman on this board in the same way as his "pretty woman type" (1980s L'Oreal model, basically) ~ unless he deems you old, ugly or overweight, in which case he'd switch into his "grotesque woman type". Gibbons, ditto I think, just that his "pretty woman type" is more like a 1950s magazine advert for menthols.

I would add Ian Gibson to the "maybe" list but he does tend to draw everyone with the same slapped-up swelled lips. Yeowell would, you feel, at least glance at you and draw someone individual, not just fit you into an easy type. Bond would get your outfit really accurate but just draw some snub-nosed scenester cutie.

Oh! Alex Ross would be good. I guess you'd get to dress up in costume too and have lots of photos taken. I would have him in category YES.

miss wonderstarr

16:04 / 13.09.06

By the way comics/art fans. Do you ever see a person and think that they look like they were drawn by a specific artist? I know at least one person who looks like he was drawn by Barry Kitson, for instance (2000AD's Judge Anderson... and JLA Year One pencils, I think). I was watching Jimmy Cagney yesterday and he also looks like he was drawn by Barry Kitson. I remember once seeing a woman and thinking she looked like a Gilbert Hernandez.

Do you know what I mean.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

16:08 / 13.09.06

Bond looks like he was drawn by himself.

16:28 / 13.09.06

W - ie. every figure is either 90 degree profile or starily full-face, and is frozen in a broken-boned pose like jointed action figures wrenched into disabled postures by a bored child.

If you add "and draws every panel at an annoyingly skewed angle" you could be talking about Jim Aparo there.... (*duck!*).

I'd like to add another vote for Phil Bond, I think he'd make my little beard look lovely. Or Jim Mahfood, if I was all hip-hop. Or Humberto Ramos (he'd make my feet look lovely).

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

16:31 / 13.09.06

Oh, snap, I forgot about Mahfood!!!

I want him to draw me too. Only with Smokedog.

16:46 / 13.09.06

Richard Case on pencils and Mark McKenna on inks. Surely they would be able to capture the straaaange combination of mind-bending weirdness and pulse-pounding superheroics that characterize my life.

17:24 / 13.09.06

By the way comics/art fans. Do you ever see a person and think that they look like they were drawn by a specific artist?

Yes, all the time. There seem to be a lot of Crumb women striding along the sidewalks of Miami, for instance. Peculiarly big legs. And I've met a couple people with Keith Giffen chins/upper lips, and a few kind of fractured types who look a little like Bernie Mireault or whatsishead Christiansen, the dude who did House of Secrets.

I get the feeling with Los Bros Hernandez (especially Jaime) and Cameron Stewart that I meet these people all the time, except not quite as pretty. Always the best angles, or something.

And I have one old friend who was obviously drawn by Jack Kirby. He always had trouble finding shoes wide enough. A brick of a man.

miss wonderstarr

17:52 / 13.09.06

I pity the man who looks like a Mike McMahon character, and his quest to find shoes that fit.

18:11 / 13.09.06

The King - KIRBY. There can be no other. Sure his art is maybe not the best fit for my actual character - I fear I am more the Ditko type - but it would be cool to have on your wall.
I have a Steve Dillon sketch (not of me obviously) somewhere done at an intore signing and he's a very nice bloke. I know what you mean about his women though MW.

18:48 / 13.09.06

Brom's the one for me

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

19:08 / 13.09.06

Sienkiewicz, somewhere around Stray Toasters #3.

19:27 / 13.09.06

I've always seen myself as patterened after an Art Adams drawing. Post-mullet Art Adams, thank you very much.

pointless & uncalled for

20:32 / 13.09.06

Actually, if I had to nominate a comic artist, it would end up being Joe Sacco.

17:57 / 14.09.06

I would like to be drawn by Jack Denfeld. If possible, I'd like Jack to draw me and Nimrod playing darts together.

19:33 / 14.09.06

Yes, why hasn't Mr. Denfeld contributed to the Top Trumps?

20:02 / 14.09.06

Given his recent work in the Kev comics, I reckon Glenn Fabry would do best to capture the inhuman beergut beauty of Evil Scientist.

Him or Giger.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

20:44 / 14.09.06

inhuman beergut beauty

Sweeet.