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Frank Quitely - Ron Smith. Has anyone seen them in he same room together?

 
 
deletia
15:32 / 20.08.01
Ok, I know nothing about comics. I know nothing about comic art. But am I alone is thinking that Frank Quitely's art is really kind of ugly?

All his characters have these absurd faces, and increasingly seem to have one of a finite *number* of absurd faces - long with absurd chin, wide or, if it's a woman, pressed as if into Rover, with eyes splayed to the sides and button nose.

es, yes, great narratice, tremendous attention to detail, but I want my X-Men to be Sex-Men, darn it! They're meant to be the pop stars of the mutant world, not the Popstarz.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:39 / 20.08.01
1. Surely the new X-Force are the popstars of the mutant world?

2. FQ's style is very... idiosynratic. But y'know, he's such a refreshing change from most superhero comic art, I can bear the occasional squishy face.

3. He seems to be getting a bit better with the faces:



[ 20-08-2001: Message edited by: The Flyboy ]
 
 
deletia
15:49 / 20.08.01
Although I didn't realise that if you shaved Jean Grey's hair off and rubbed off her lipstick she would look quite so much like Professor X...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
15:57 / 20.08.01
If nothing else, at least Quitely's art has some life and sense of movement to it. The same cannot be said for that of Ron Smith.
 
 
Warrington Minge
19:14 / 20.08.01
I haven't checked his X-men stuff out yet but I love Frank Quitely's stuff. Flex Mentillo with that Grant Morrison chap was partucularly ace and I loved the stuff he did in 2000ad. I find it very encouraging that Marvel have chosen him to do a title. I find his style more in keeping with something like 'LITTLE NEMO' ( on old strip from 20's/30's ) very inventive and very expressionate. To see Frank Quitely doing X-men is enticing me back to the mighty world of Marvel again.
 
 
Sandfarmer
09:55 / 21.08.01
I think Frank Quitely is quite frankly the best artist in the comics business today. I really can't stand to look at any one else's X-Men now.
 
 
deletia
09:55 / 21.08.01
I'm finding the application of language in this thread fascinating.

Randy - quite right. Quitely's dynamism and narrative abilities are uncontested, and Ron Smith was/is an astonishingly bad artist. How on Earth did he ever get work?

And yes, Flex Mentallo did look superb, as did Shimura and a lot of Missionary Man. I've only started being irritated by his stuff during the Authority and X-Men.

I do, however, enjoy the White Queen's apparent possession of a nice, hefty pair of balls.
 
 
e-n
09:55 / 21.08.01
Of course!I knew his style looked familiar, I read shimura yonks ago and lost the issues of the megazine soon after, but I thought It was the coolest thing in the mag at that (or any other) time!Thanks for reminding me of that haus
 
 
Chubby P
10:12 / 21.08.01
quote:Originally posted by The Haus of Jericho:
I want my X-Men to be Sex-Men, darn it!


You mean you'd rather read stories about Cuddle, Kiss and Torture than Wolverine and Cyclops?

Check out Grant Morrisons Sex-Men here
 
 
gman
10:24 / 21.08.01
Hey! Leave off Ron Smith! His work in the early to mid eighties on Dredd is punk art personified; genius!

Quitely's quite good too...
 
 
deletia
10:56 / 21.08.01
P: Yes, that was rather the gag. A combi-spin on the Doom Patrol Sex-Men and Kelly and Casey or whoever the Hell it is commenting that his X-Men would be the "Sex-Men". Do you see?

Gman: Two words. Chronos. Carnival.
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
14:31 / 21.08.01
I agree with the statement that Frank Quitely is among the best artists in the comics field. There's pretty much nothing that I don't love about his work...I don't understand the 'he draws ugly faces' thing...see, to me, a big part of why I love his art is that he doesn't draw everyone as amazingly beautiful..he gives faces character. I like how his Charles Xavier looks a bit alien... I like how Cyclops has a narrow head with a long pointy noise. I like how his Jean Grey looks *just like* Julianne Moore.

His layout, storytelling, background art, gesture, and eye for detail is superb... the guy is a blessing to mainstream comics art. I'm praying that people start attempting to ape his style, because that can't possibly be a bad thing.
 
 
Jamieon
17:10 / 22.08.01
What he said.
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
17:43 / 22.08.01
I would like to add that also like how he draws Emma Frost as being short and petite, and always with a snobby scowl on her face.

and that he can draw leather/vinyl clothing realistically (check out Emma's panty-thingies on the cover...)
 
 
deletia
09:19 / 23.08.01
Oh, indeed. Some days I do little else.

Erm...

But seriously, folks, am I missing something important here as a neophyte? I just do feel that something has gone a bit wrong since Flex Mentallo...

Tell you what, though. I want guest artists on New X-Men. Jim Mahfood, and Evan Dorkin, and Chynna Clugston-Major, and Elizabeth Watashin...

Could be good.
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
09:19 / 23.08.01
Is there any way we can start a letter writing campaign of some sort to boot Joe Casey and Ron Garney off of the other X-Men comic, so that both are good? I mean, seriously?
 
 
Tamayyurt
00:07 / 30.08.01
yeah yeah, but his faces are shit! And Emma does have a package on the cover of 116! I mean, look, LOOK! BALLS!
 
 
deletia
08:29 / 30.08.01
Some days I do little else.
 
  
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