Favorite Comic Book Artist

[drf]

Well the title says it all... who's yours?
1. John Byrne (X-Men, Fantastic Four, Namor, The Sub-Mariner, Next Men)
2. John Romita Sr. (Amazing Spider-Man)
3. Arthur Adams (Longshot Mini-series, X-Men)
4. Dale Keown (The Incedible Hulk, PITT)
5. Barry Windsor-Smith (Iron Man, X-Men, Weapon-X)
6. Neal Adams (X-Men, Batman, Green Lantern & Green Arrow)
7. Todd McFarlane (The Incedible Hulk, Spider-Man, Spawn)
8. Gary Frank (Motormouth, The Incredible Hulk)
9. Greg Horn (various covers for Marvel)
10. John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men)

 

[Jack Davenport]

You have left out the greatest of all time. Mike Grell

 

[drf]

You have left out the greatest of all time. Mike Grell

You got me there... and I used to read the Old Green Arrow Series. Brain fart I guess:dunno:

 

[LukeEl]

Oh no time for the inner geek in me to shine, I like J. Scott Campbell, Jim Lee, Andy and Adam Kubert, Salvador Laroca, John Romita Sr. and Jr., Tim Sale, Jeff Smith, Sam keith, Mark Finch, those are just to name a few,

 

[Member 1098]

Todd McFarlane, Mike Mayhew, J. Scott Campbell.

 

[Jack Davenport]

You got me there... and I used to read the Old Green Arrow Series. Brain fart I guess:dunno:

He also illustrated Batman,Aquaman,Beowulf and Superboy and The Legion of Superheroes among others. His work on the Green Arrow/Lantern series was phenomenal.

 

[zell]

Jim Lee is THE greatest. 8.2 million copies of X-Men #1 kinda proves that(I know,I know,they had the multiple cover gimmick to help sales,but it's 8.2 million copies!).

In a very close second,and quite frankly I'm surprised that no one mentioned him,Alex Ross.

And to round out my top 3 is manga artist and the creator of Akira,Katsuhiro Otomo.

There are a lot of really good artist that I like,Silverstri,J. Scott Campbell(best at drawing women),Greg Capullo,Joe Benitez,Richard Bennett(this guys tech equipment and gear art is amazing),and there are others who's names escape me right now.

 

[LukeEl]

Sadly when I was a kid I used to like Rob Leifield, but now that I look at his artwork I laugh. The giant shoulder pads and hair dryer guns he drew were ridiculous.

 

[BigSwede]

Don Rosa,Carl Barks,Paul Murry,Vicar,Krister Peterson,Gert Lozell,Frank Margerin,Morris,Albert Uderzo,André Franquin,Peyo,Tome & Janry,Raoul Cauvin,Derib,Greg,Fournier,Nic and Raymond Macherot among many others.

 

[zell]

Sadly when I was a kid I used to like Rob Leifield, but now that I look at his artwork I laugh. The giant shoulder pads and hair dryer guns he drew were ridiculous.

Yeah,his anatomy really sucks,but he really shines at his pacing and action scenes.

Even though pretty much all of his characters are a total ripoff of other characters,he's actually a pretty good sequential artist,and that's the most important aspect of being a comic book artist.

Don Rosa,Carl Barks,Paul Murry,Vicar,Krister Peterson,Gert Lozell,Frank Margerin,Morris,Albert Uderzo,André Franquin,Peyo,Tome & Janry,Raoul Cauvin,Derib,Greg,Fournier,Nic and Raymond Macherot among many others.

Wow,I've never heard of a single one of those artists.

 

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

Eduardo Risso, Marcello Frusin, Paul Pope, Rick Mays, Jason Perason, Hiroaki Samura.

I could go on and on.

I loved Frank Quitely's work on New X-Men, eventho' he's slow as shit. Also, eventho' I was never a Spawn fan, I really loved Greg Capullo's work. The Creech was some fun stuff.

 

[ezteban]

Akira Toriyama...Dragon Ball, of course !

 

[LukeEl]

Yeah,his anatomy really sucks,but he really shines at his pacing and action scenes.

Even though pretty much all of his characters are a total ripoff of other characters,he's actually a pretty good sequential artist,and that's the most important aspect of being a comic book artist.



Wow,I've never heard of a single one of those artists.

Rob was unoriginal in alot of ways. The only character I liked that he created was Deadpool. Aside from that, remember Youngblood and how awful that was? Then he got in some hot water with his Captain America ripoff.

 

[LukeEl]

Oh there was an artist that I used to like, I don't know what he is doing now, but Humberto Ramos was good. He had this manga like quality to his artwork.

 

[zell]

Rob was unoriginal in alot of ways. The only character I liked that he created was Deadpool. Aside from that, remember Youngblood and how awful that was? Then he got in some hot water with his Captain America ripoff.

Hey,and what about Cable? I always liked Cable.

He actually got in trouble with Youngblood first.One of his characters,Bedrock,had to get a name change for obvious reasons,so he change it to Badrock. Pretty much the whole Youngblood team was a ripoff.Now I think about it,he also had this book called Bloodwolf which was a complete and total ripoff of Lobo.

As much as I would really like to completely rag on the guy,I really hate to do it because I've met him and he was really cool and down to earth.If he were an asshole then it would be really easy to talk a lot of shit about him

 

[om3ga]

Wot - no George Perez, Dave Stevens (RIP) or Brian Bolland?

 

[Vosslier]

Jim Lee and J. Scott Campbell are my favs.

 

[mrtrebus]

Don't read much in the way of comics anymore. But my favourites are
Carlos Ezquerra - http://www.internet.ad/ezquerra/
Kevin O'Neill
Ian Gibson.

 

[BigSwede]

Wow,I've never heard of a single one of those artists.

None of them do sci-fi or horror.
But you must have heard of Carl Barks?

 

[calpoon]

Wot - no George Perez, Dave Stevens (RIP) or Brian Bolland?

or how about Jack Kirby and Will Eisner for that matter?

I'm surprised that no on has said Frank Miller.