Favourite artist?

[JJ McKool]

SO, who's your favourite comic book artist? Just want to say,, go ahead and include more than one, but, see if you can't at least keep it to one per category, y'know, inker, penciler, colourist, painter.

Personally, my favourite has been Lee Bermejo for a while now, but he sure doesn't put much out except for covers, which I'm guessing he must make tons doin'. Favourite painter I think is that Dell Otto character, though there are some close runner-ups.

[J. Alexopoulos]

Joe Mad, Humberto Ramos.

[The-Spirit]

It's always a toss up between Jack Kirby and Will Eisner for me, I guess it will perpetually be, I don't think any modern artist can ever top them in my mind.

Right this minute it's Kirby, but only because of the Challengers of the Unknown showcase that I seem to keep beside me at all times.

[Spacious Interior]

Jae Lee. Hands down, Jae Lee. Though, to be honest, I've always thought his work looked best when colored by Jose Villarubia.

[Erik Roman]

Mark Schultz.

Bar none, the finest illustrator in comics today.

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[eDuke]

Mark Schultz.
Bar none, the finest illustrator in comics today.

Yeah, but he's not doing anything in comics today, is he? :p
I wish he was.

[hannu]

Kirby, Mignola, Herge, Chaland. Mark Schultz is great too.
For covers, James Jean. He´s an artist with a capital A.

[Rob Norton]

there are so many good ones... but for me... ADAM HUGHES is the man. followed closley by Travis Charest

rob

[Mike225]

Jack Kirby and Mike Mignola.

John Romita Jr. just to throw someone new out there.

[Multisync143]

John Bryne

[Phatman]

In no particular order:

Will Eisner, John Buscema, Neal Adams, Alex Toth, Ross Andru, Gil Kane, Dave Cockrum, Mike Mignola, John Romita (Sr. and Jr.), Steve Ditko, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larson, Jae Lee, Simon Bisley, Ariel Olivetti, Steve Dillon, Steve Skroce, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alex Maleev, Frank Quitely, Mike Zeck, Gene Ha, Brent Anderson, Bernie Wrightson, Travis Charest, Geoff Darrow, Cully Hamner, Leilnil Yu, Mark Texiera, Doug Mahnke, Ed McGuinness, Don Kramer, J.G. Jones, Claudio Castellini, Carlos Pacheco, Walt Simonson, Howard Chaykin, Sam Kieth and Jack "the King" Kirby.

As great as all of them are, I have three others that I consider my holy-comics-trinity growing up that I put on a special pedestal: George Perez, John Byrne and Frank Miller.

(I left Cary Nord and Ryan Ottley off the list because it looks too much like sucking up around here-great young artists)

[FatBoy73]

Travis charest! That man could make Barney look like a badass! His work on
WildCats/X-Men crossover was breathtaking.

[madtheory]

Travis Charest all the way. his Wildcats work was amazing.

[pi0trov]

There's a lot of artists I love that I'm probably forgetting, but just off the top of my head...

Current: Chris Bachalo, Mark Brooks, Mark Buckingham, Darwynn Cooke, Tony Daniel, Brian Hitch, David Mack, Alex Maleev, Mike Mignola, Paul Pope, Matt Wagner

Classic: John Byrne, Frank Miller, George Perez, Paul Smith

All Time: Don Newton

[Biofungus]

What? No love for Rob Liefeld? :rolleyes:

[Phatman]

What? No love for Rob Liefeld? :rolleyes:

You're just tryin' to start somethin' aren't you?

[Lovecraft13]

Who is my favorite comic book artist? Heck, I don't even know anymore.

[ponyrl]

Steve Rude. Alan Davis, Alex Ross, Dave Stevens, M.D. Bright, Bart Sears, Frank Frazetta, Dale Keown, Kishiro Yukito, Otomo Katsuhiro, Hara Tetsuo & Yoshiyuki Okamura (writer/artist pair), Joe Sinnott, John Romita Jr., Ron Frez, Walter Simonson, there's more I just can't think of them. :laugh:

[jakebilbao]

Bryan Hitch
Alan Davis
rob.............?

[The Predator]

Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Uderzo, Berni Wrightson, Russ Manning, Neal Adams and the king of them all if you ask me:
HAL FOSTER!
All the best
The Predator

[outlawmojo]

Top 5 Artists

5. Mark Bagley..gotta give it up!!!

4. James Jean..best cover artist.

3. Arthur Adams..just love his style

2. Steve Ditko..the man

1.Jack Kirby..still the king

[exilednight]

What? No love for Rob Liefeld? :rolleyes:
Love to make fun of him.

[Hob Anagarak]

Off the top of my head, gonna go with a lot of people whose names I probably can't spell.

Painted-
Gabrielle Del' Otto

Current-
Ed McGuinness
Paco Medina
John Romita Jr
Carlos Pacheco

Classic-
George Perez

[colt45]

There's too many to list but for me, it all starts with Toth, then any of the following: Kevin Nowlan, John Paul Leon, Tommy Lee Edwards, Jorge Zaffino,
Michael Lark, Michael Golden, Mignola, AH!, Travis, Jason Pearson, Ryan Sook, Buscema(John of course!), Colan, either Romita, Gil Kane, Bruce Timm,
Jordi Bernet, Serpieri, Manara

Non comics-Robert Fawcett, Dean Cornwell, Leyendecker, Noel Sickles, J.C. Coll, Drew Struzan, Austin Briggs, Claire Wendling(altough she does comics_

[Mark Bertolini]

Steve McNiven or Steve Dillon.

[quantum1019]

Joe Kubert

[JamieRoberts]

Sean Phillips

[Rob Norton]

Sean Phillips


oh hell yeah...that guy is GOOD! Stuart immonen to.

rob

[bluelinesmoke]

I'll go with Travis Charest, Adam Hughes, Frank Cho, Frank Miller, Joe "please come back to comics" Madureira, and Marco Djurdjevic. Maybe toss J. Scott Campbell in there too.

[JJ McKool]

Wow, a lot of people didn't really even try to narrow them down, did they? Damn, I should've asked for peoples reasons too, anybody who feels like posting from now on want to post reasons too? I like Bermejo because of the depth and realism, and nobody has dabbled in cubism in comic art before, either. Dell Otto because he's like a mix of Jim Lee type comic book art, and more traditional stuff, so it adds a different element to everything.

Can honestly say I don't really like any of the older artists, although I respect them all, I'm not hugely zeroed in on comics for comics sake, I like art and literature, and I just seem to like comics more for the potential of really putting them together for a whole new experience. Actually, Will Eisner seemed to know that really well, so I do like him, even if he was more of a cartoonist.

[carriertone]

Wow! I didn't think this would be as hard as it is. There are far too many amazing talents out there. These are my 4 favorites right now.

Frazer Irving - The man does everything. Pencils, inks, AND colors! Everything he touches turns to gold in my hands. From "Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained" up through "Silent War", the man is amazing. His Judge Death stuff was insanely creepy.

Kevin Nowlan - Anybody looking to be inspired needs to pick up the Modern Masters on Nowlan that TwoMorrows put out. Simply amazing! Exciting, dramatic, and dynamic are only 3 of the many words I'd use to describe his art.

Alan Davis - Everybody loved John Byrne and George Perez when I was growing up, but for me it didn't get any better than Alan Davis. His version of Nightcrawler is tops! Batman: Full Circle and JLA: The Nail are two personal favorites.

Neal Adams - His artwork on Batman, The Phantom Stranger, and Deadman were part of my inspiration to draw comics. Nobody draws a better Batman, period. Here's a great quote by Harlan Ellison: "There are artists who come along who do wonderful work, innovative work, even stylistically seminal or germinal work, but they don't change the face of the craft or the social conscience of the industry. Neal did that".

- Carl

[Sprinter]

Jim Lee/Scott Willliams (since Punisher War Journal & Uncanny/X-Men)
Alex Ross (Marvels)
Adam Hughes (DH's Ghost)
Art Adams (Classic X-Men & Fantastic Four)
Alan Davis (Excalibur)
John Cassaday (Captain America)