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[WrenchNinja]

Dustin Nguyen

Why I Like Him: Just really love his cartoonist look to every character he draws. They way he draws women is great. They jump right off the page, and his art really reminds me of Batman: The Animated Series.
Where You Can See Him: Batman: Private Casebook, Batman: Heart of Hush, Batman: House of Hush

 

[wenis]

James Stokoe - Orc Stain, guy came out of nowhere for me and blew me away with 7 issues of the craziest shit I've ever seen. The colors in some of those issues are just...wow...I loved every month this comic went on.

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

A LOT of awesome picks, Sean Murphy, Amanda Conner, Francis Manapul, so I have to throw in:

Gabriel Ba

 

[Black_Stride]

Why wouldn't it count as comic book art? It's comic artists illustrating comic characters?

Some people are super "purist" about whats comic book art and whats pin-up/cover art.
Probably the same group of people who hate people calling certain "graphic novels" comic books.

Anyway for me its all the same, if an artist work is used ona comicbook cover then it is comicbook art, plain and simple(im simple like that).

Back on topic

Clayton Crain

Why I Like Him: His artwork is very different from most comicbook art. His art gives everything a certain darkness, which lends itself well to the issues ive read in which he is the lead artist
Where You Can See Him: Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation & Trial of Tears, X-Force(i forget the exact run), Dont think his on anything right now, but i may be wrong.

^I know its all cover art, i could find any good scans of his interior art + im lazy to do a thorough search.

 

[leroy hacker]

I'm glad to see Moebius in the first reply. More Euro artists:

Philippe Druillet

Francois Schuiten

Yves Chaland

Enki Bilal

 

[JimtotheHum]

I know he was mentioned earlier, but put some Travis Charest in here. Also, Todd McFarlane was my childhood favorite, inspired me to become an artist.

 

[SpaceBridge]

Olivier Coipel

Chris Bachalo

Frank Quitely

 

[Pau]

Darwyn Cooke

Why I like him: His paneling is simple and extremely well paced, his characters and designs are incredibly cartoony and iconic, and damn if he doesn't know how to choose great colorists to work with. Oh, and he's actually a competent writer too.

Three of my favorite pages in comics from his DC: The New Frontier, with colorist Dave Stewart.

 

[leroy hacker]

And someone I shouldn't have forgotten:

Juan Gimenez

 

[y2dvd]

Love me some Ashley Wood.

 

[Artie Fissio]

Some insane good submissions!
I submit this

Alex Maleev

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

Marcos Martin:

 

[AlternativeUlster]

Another vote for Ashley Wood

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

Some great choices in here. My contribution, Jack Davis.

 

[thebaroness]

Most of my favorites have already been listed (love me some Amanda Conner) but I'm going to throw in Bill Sienkiewicz

His work is so loose and free, but it still just comes together. It's like the pen in an extension of his mind.

I love LOVE that VB painting. every since I bought the boxset.

 

[beat]

David Aja turned in great work on The Immortal Iron Fist. What's he been doing since?

 

[Log4Girlz]

Awesome thread. Anyone else weird like me and prefer pencils or just inked art unless its painted? Not a fan of the usually coloring in comics.

 

[Angelus Errare]

I like seeing the artist's pencils unfortunately many inkers really take away that something from the artist's pencils.

 

[ReaperXL7]

So i'll post alittle bit of my favorites in here.


Alex Ross:

Todd

Ben Templesmith

 

[ymmv]

Yslaire:

 

[Zekes!]

Osamu Tezuka is my favourite comic book artist. I simply love his works.

http://tezukaosamu.net/en/iroiro/picuture_book.html

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Arthur Adams

WOW, this is God-tier

 

[zoukka]

Christophe Blain.

Be sure to check the series, Isaac the Pirate.

 

[beat]

I like seeing the artist's pencils unfortunately many inkers really take away that something from the artist's pencils.

I really love a great ink job. I vaguely remember hearing that when he's working at max speed, Jae Lee almost (?) goes straight to inking.


That said, Michael Zulli, for one, somehow does not translate to inks well and when they started publishing his pencils without inking his work suddenly started looking amazing.

 

[Miggytronz]

Wow at the Cain and Ross stuff....mind blowing.

 

[Gr1mLock]

Hurray for walt simonson..he was one of my instructors in school. Im actually pretty surprised by some of the stuff posted here (in a good way).

Adam Kubert

Leinil Francis Yu

Travis Charest

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

So i'll post alittle bit of my favorites in here.

Todd

Greg Capullo

Whilce Portacio

Fixed. Macfarlane usually only acts as an inker these days, neither of these are by him, check the sigs.

 

[Bulzeeb]

hey I am liking this thread, not a comic book reader but I like the art style

 

[Littleberu]

Pasqual Ferry

Why I like him : I fell in love with him in Adam Strange : Planet Heist, and I couldn't believe how cool and soft his drawing were. Talk about a good draftsman.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Jerome Opeña, by the way, is pretty damn amazing (well, him and his colorist, hot damn)

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Thank you for this awesome thread! Everyone!

I gotta put together a post myself.

 

[ReaperXL7]

Fixed. Macfarlane usually only acts as an inker these days, neither of these are by him, check the sigs.

Your absolutely right, my mistake. I was more pointing to the Spawn franchise as a whole really though, there is tons of fantastic art throughout it.

More from Alex Ross:

 

[BudokaiMR2]

Osamu Tezuka is my favourite comic book artist. I simply love his works.

http://tezukaosamu.net/en/iroiro/picuture_book.html

Yeah, Tezuka truly is one of the greats. An absolute genius in so many ways. I especailly love some of the brilliant paneling he does. The part in Hi no Tori where that space crew escape in different pods is so amazing.

I wish I could find a good example of his nature shots. There are so many in Hi no Tori and Buddha that absolutely take my breath away. Such attention to detail.

 

[ymmv]

More Moebius:

 

[Leunam]

Surprised at the Frank Quitely love. Never really cared for his mashed potato faces.

 

[Gozan]

Some more Europeans:

Herrmann (Jeremiah):

Francois Bourgeon (Passengers of the Wind, Cyann):

Alain Dodier (Jerome K. Jerome Bloche):

Jean-Claude Mézières (Valerian and Laureline):

 

[Doc Holliday]

Christophe Blain.

Be sure to check the series, Isaac the Pirate.

Holy crap! This is fantastic shit :O Thanks!!

 

[Gozan]

Holy crap! This is fantastic shit :O Thanks!!

Gus and His Gang is also highly recommended.

 

[FloppyDelux]

CARL BARKS

Jack Kirby:

FRANK FRAZETTA

 

[RiZ III]

Paolo Rivera has done some outstanding work for Marvel
Really great cover despite the story being utter crap

DAT hair :O

 

[Machine]

I approve of a lot of the stuff being posted although I'm mildly surprised there isn't more appreciation for some of the past masters like Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, etc.

I will add two recent ones I like although I could come up with several others.

Scott Hampton

Tony Harris

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

john buscema:

 

[King of the Potato People]

Christopher Reeve > Beefcake Superman

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

Barry Windsor-Smith

 

[rbenchley]

Brian Bolland

 

[Littleberu]

FRANK FRAZETTA

No way that's fucking Frazetta.

 

[AlternativeUlster]

Most of my favorites have already been listed (love me some Amanda Conner) but I'm going to throw in Bill Sienkiewicz

His work is so loose and free, but it still just comes together. It's like the pen in an extension of his mind.

I love LOVE that VB painting. every since I bought the boxset.

Awesome. Need to check out more of his art. He would be great on a Hellblazer run.

 

[okdakor]

Don't have time to look for pics, but Sam Kieth is good too

 

[Major Williams]

Why is Michael Turner not in this thread? Quite possibly the best at drawing females, and super heroes in general. A crying shame he died so young to cancer. His graphic novel on Super girl/Batman/Superman is one of the best out there.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

Why is Michael Turner not in this thread? Quite possibly the best at drawing females, and super heroes in general. A crying shame he died so young to cancer. His graphic novel on Super girl/Batman/Superman is one of the best out there.

Dont agree. Obviously sad that he passed, but his art was so, so and he had 0 range.