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I think there is a major distinction between storytelling and being an "artist" - and then you have someone who, like Allred currently mixes them both at X-Force - but who are yours, and why? Please, open up my eyes to those that I haven't checked out.
My first choice would be Tony Salmons, he is that rare beast that occassionally pops up when you least expect him, and only through reading about the Cap America projects and seeing his name among the group of people involved with the anthology series, did I recall how fine his Vigilante series was. Those wild panels, the different, exciting use of perspective and his idiosyncratic execution, love it. I haven't seen much of his other work but I do seem to recall that he did a story in of those Vertigo anthologies, and an obscure little Daredevil story in Marvel Fanfare.
Don Rosa is another of my biggies, in that he has such a pervasive use of space and effect. He has tight control over the actions going on the panels, most notably all the funny bits in the backgrounds which you really have to follow consequently. His output is much like Salmons', in that he occassionally provide Donald Duck stories and his work is therefore hard to come by. The latest that I fell over was some months ago, a story about a coin that Scrroge loses, and then we see how it travels by the city, meeting all the usual suspects along the way. Ingenious.
J.H. Williams III, who I noticed first in Starman, and then with the shortlived Chase series. You'll know why if you have checked out Promethea.
Bud Grace, there is something appealling - and appalling - in his blacks on the white. And most of all, his dailies are disgustingly hilarious.
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