YOUR FAVORITE 3 ARTISTS

Frank Miller: Duh. He's Frank, after all.

Joe Madurieriaiahaha: Battle Chasers. Battle Chasers. Battle Chasers.

And last but not least...

(The effing name escapes me...help chenzzo-kenobi, you're my only hope!) the guy who draws Transmetropolitan.

Honorable Mentions: Jim Lee, Joe Quesadilla, Jhonen Vasquez, John McCrea.

1) dave mckean - a visionary.
2) john byrne - the man errs as much as any other, but he's technically flawless and always delivers.
3) mike mignola - style meets lots of ink. who else can use as much black and still have form... (maybe frank miller's current sin city artistic style)

runners up in no particular order: geoff darrow (hard boiled - anyone?), alex ross, mike mckone, adam hughes (hey, i was reading comics during puberty - alright?), art adams, kevin nowlan, and frank miller.

/willko.

Just three?!? That's tough, my current faves tend to vary from month to month, and there are old favorites who would be difficult to touch.

Lately it's been:

Adam Warren -- an Americanized manga style that i love. and he's a decent writer too, he comes up with some pretty unique ideas and has the talent to realize them visually. i adore his Dirty Pair, for obvious reasons

Tony Harris -- his run on DC's Starman was outstanding.

Joe Madureira -- his hyperactive manga take is probably the best out there, and probably the most copied by young artists nowadays. Although he's as slow as J. Scott Campbell when it comes to producing new material...

Hmm... Jason Pearson, Kevin Nowlan, Kyle Hotz, Art Adams, Steve Dillon, Adam Hughes, Bryan Hitch...

Then there are the ones who originally inspired me: Frank Miller, John Byrne, Neal Adams, Berni Wrightson, Richard Corben....

Oh, grendel... the guy who was drawing Transmet was Dwayne Turner, or it least he was still drawing it when i stopped reading it...
unlike most of Warren Ellis' stuff, i just couldnt get into it

Miller
Wrightson
Breyfogle

I don't think Dwayne Turner ever drew Transmet. AS far as I know the only guy to ever draw it on a monthly basis was Darick Robertson.

My picks.

Travis Charest--If you've not seen this guys artwork, you are truly missing out. His work on the first issues of the new Wildcats series was phenomenal. His covers still blow anything else on the stands away. It's just a shame he draws too slow to handle a monthly or even bi-monthly book.

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Lessee, who else.

Hiroaki Samura. His B/W artowrk on Dark Horse's "Blade of the Immortal" is so sweet, and so realistic. Ya gotta see it.

check this out


go here to see all of the Blade covers http://sutic.nu/blade/art/

and lastly,
David Mack, the writer and artist of Kabuki, who I had the privilege to meet and talk to at Dragon-con a couple years back. What a great guy. His art inspires me, and makes me want to do better. He does watercolors, black and white, pen and ink, and colored pens. He is amazing.

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There are many others, including Joe Maduereira (who I hate now, cause it's been almost a year since the last issue of his book, Battlechaser, cause he's too frickin busy doing covers for every others comic or videogame), Jason Pearson, (and the rest of the Atlanta based Gaijin Studios guys, Adam Hughes, Brian Stelfreeze, Dave Johnson, and more), Jim Lee (who is, was, and always will be a comics legend), Todd McFarlane (remember when he used to actually draw Spawn?)Steve Dillon (Preacher and the new Punisher series), Tom Raney (used to draw Stormwatch and the Authority, think he works for marvel now), Frank Quitely (who's been doing a killer job on The Authority since Hitch and Neary left) J. Scott Campbell (the guy who inspired me to go to Commercial Art school, if only cause he did) and too many more to even count.


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Alex Ross
That guy who did the majority of the Green Goblin series.
Jim Lee

chenzzo is right, i had a brain lapse apparently. I think Dwayne Turner used to draw Claremont's Sovereign Seven? Hey, at least i got the first initial right... still dont dig Transmet though...

yep, Turner did draw SS, among other things.

Transmet is definitely an aquired taste, you really have to get to the point where you really care about the main character, or else the book is just seemingly endless random anarchy with no point.

"To fuckery with my ex-wife's head..."


How can you NOT love Spider Jerusalem?

Some people just aren't hip.

And some people are just Dave Davis.

That answer your question?

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oh an addendum to my runners up...

john romita jr. is the best artist to come out of marvel directly since the modern age of comics. i prefer his style to jim lee's and most of the manga influenced guys.

/willko.

I also forgot Dan Brereton, whose Nocturnals and Giantkiller series kicked ass, and Tim Bradstreet, whose covers consistently blow me away.

Oh, and Mark Texiera and Bill Sienkiewicz. And Dave Stevens. And Mark Schultz. And of course Will Eisner. man, there's just too many...

Trying to actually narrow it down to three is an exercise in futility, but since Nick is forcing us to:

Frank Miller- The black and white stuff he's doing with Sin City right now is amazing, and quantum leaps ahead of his old stuff, which was amazing itself.

Steve Dillon- Check out Preacher. Check out the Punisher. Check out his and Garth Ennis' run on Hellblazer. Be amazed. And, he does a better drawing of chenzzo than anyone I've ever seen.

Scott McDaniel- His run on Nightwing was some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen. I may be biased because Nightwing is my favorite character =EVER=, but hey, these are =my= favorites.

Oh,and Nick, two things: (1) Alex Ross has done several gallery exhibits of his work, and at least one of Kingdome Come stuff in particular, and (2) he's not "slumming" in comics. He has said on more than one occasion that he wanted to be a comics artist his entire life, and has no desire to do anything else.

Hellblazer

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in reply to nick's reply:

the comics industry has long been the ugly retarded bastard stepchild of all media. it's always cool when somebody of tremendous talent emerges in the field to legitimatize the emergent potential of the industry. i wouldn't put up alex ross quite yet along with frank miller, art spiegelman, neil gaiman and alan moore in the category of giants in the field to do so. but he's perched to be a contender.

the easiest book to find on the matter of comics as a serious medium is scott mccloud's "understanding comics" which is currently being published by dc, i believe. an excellent book for anybody who ever liked what was once four-colored fun for everyone.

coincidentally mccloud's sequel to the book is finished and on its way later this year and is entitle "reinventing comics". check out his webpage ( http://www.scottmccloud.com )for more info. there was a preview for this on wired.com.

sorry to derail the topic for a bit, nick.

/willko.

I agree with Davis again.

Brereton is tremendous. Giantkiller was one of my favorite series. Hated it had to end. Although, it would make a tremendous movie, ala Godzilla. No, not the American one.

Bradstreet is a genius as well. His covers for Vertigo's Unknown Soldier and Human Target series' was phenomenal, and his Punisher stuff rocks as well. I didn't include him in the list, because I've never seen him do an entire book.