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the worst comic artists ever

  
  

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The Natural Way
12:23 / 02.04.02
His big, hard, Liefeld-style day.
 
 
Axel Lambert
12:40 / 02.04.02
Yeah I'm quite sure now that must have been it; Grant wrote most of Apocalipstick heavily influenced by Oliver Stone's Natural born killers, trying to have Jill Thompson draw in different styles: Jaime Hernandez in the childhood scenes of Fanny; Frank Miller's Sin City in the nightclub scene; Watchmen in the King Mob/Edith scene; Rob Liefeld in the KM flashback.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:49 / 02.04.02
Oh, I like Jill too, BTW. Don't know why, just do. Her art was kinda, umm...curvy/womby...no hard lines/angles...Sheman completely. Bubbles of MM ready to ripple. Liked the time-whizzing-by-Fanny panels in vol 3. Lubberly.
 
 
The Planet of Sound
14:59 / 02.04.02
I'd just like to vehemently disagree with Big Nemo; Ron Howard's work was beautiful stuff; Otto Sump, Pug Ugly etc... and Richard Case on the Doom Patrol was also incredible work. Yer needs yer eyes cleaned, pal...
 
 
The Planet of Sound
14:59 / 02.04.02
Smith, dammit, I meant to write Smith... although Ron Howard was pretty good in Happy Days. Not too sure about A Beautiful Mind.
 
 
Axel Lambert
15:06 / 02.04.02
Richard Case was indeed great for Doom Patrol, though somewhat limited in his drawing.
Bad artists... I really dislike Kelley Jones.
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
22:04 / 02.04.02
Re: Smith and Case

Hmmm. I'll give my peepers a good soak and get back to you.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
15:56 / 04.04.02
Russell Braun, Vertigo fill-in artist extraordinaire. Look for his name on a Vertigo cover and be prepared to scream when you see between the covers.
Arthur Sudnam, II
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
08:55 / 05.04.02
Following on from Cameron's excellent defense of Quitely I have a bit of a problem with him when it comes to drawing figures and I think this is an area (says the person who can't draw a convincing stick figure) where artists can fall down. Compare Quitely's Professor X from a couple of issues ago, with his King Mob from the last issue of Invisibles. For the majority of his characters they all seem to be skeletal-thin (Cyclops especially) or hugely obese (the guy pushing past Gideon and Boy in Invisibles). There seems to be a problem when it comes to filling people out according to their size.

But then, I seem to be the one person who didn't like the art from the first arc of s. 3 (not appropriate to the Invisibles, not crap) so what do I know.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:22 / 05.04.02
Why was Bond, in yr opinion, inappropriate?

Thought his cutesy pop-art perfectly summed up the whole, artificial, ad-chic, simulation vibe.....vol 3 in a nutshell.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
08:38 / 06.04.02
Mainly because his Lord Fanny looked like a fucking three year old. I quite like it in 'Kill Your Boyfriend' but the scene with Mob and Mr Six on Glastonbury Tor was crying out to be drawn by someone with a more 'realistic' style.
 
 
Wrecks City-Zen
02:53 / 14.04.02
Rob Liefield
 
 
Ganesh
16:59 / 14.04.02
At the risk of becoming Ho Garden:

Jill Thompson - already much discussed, won't get into it all again

Melinda Gebbie - does the 'Cobweb' stuff for Moore's ABC line; awful anatomy and facial rendering - wonder if she'd have attained any mainstream comics work if she weren't Moore's main squeeze...

The guy who does 'Greyshirt' - same reasons, really.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
17:38 / 14.04.02
RICK VEITCH???? NO WAY!!!!
Rick Veitch fookin' rocks! Oh, my. Is Greyshirt all you've seen of his, Ganesh? His style's loose and, yes, well, UGLY, but ugly in a good way, I think. Ah, it's all subjective anyway.
And Jilly Thompson is awesome. I shan't take much more of this Jill-bashing, you hooligans!
Arthur Sudnam, II
 
 
Ganesh
17:45 / 14.04.02
No, I've seen other stuff of Rick Veitch's (sp?) and I agree, his 'Greyshirt' stuff is unrepresentative - to the point that I didn't realise it was him.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
19:44 / 14.04.02
An eensy bit of thread rot...but really just an addendum to my previous post.
I may be wrong here, but...is Jill Thompson married to Brian Azzarello? I'm thinking that's right but I'm not sure.
Arthur Sudnam, II
 
  

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