Ken Aldred

Great taste. I've always preferred looking at Frazetta's art in black-and-white, possibly because of my EC Library collection, also so that none of the fine line work is obscured.

Keith Pollard - Thor : The Eternals Saga

You're a Brit. You do irony.

I can also see an equally-irritated counterargument on cosplay message boards. "After putting six months or more of intense effort into fashioning a costume of the highest quality, we then have to tolerate these filthy, scruffy, comicbook-reading fanboys who can’t even be bothered to wash themselves for weeks before the convention. Their thoughtless, overpowering, offensive stench and banal dress sense should be removed from our events."

Nah. Just that it's very easy for me to roll a boulder downhill in that direction. Natural talent.

Wrong thread, Jimmers. A not particularly Sisyphean attempt on my part to dumb things down.

I might change temporarily into his evil mirror image opposite, Hatefro.

Really excellent BWS art in this one.

Dave Cockrum - Legion of Super-Heroes

For Berni Wrightson, I'd have to pick his Frankenstein illustrations. Although, the spirit of those illustrations is also present in several of his Warren magazine stories, such as The Muck Monster, Cool Air and The Pepper Lake Monster.

That's why I started collecting Schultz as soon as I saw his style, back in the 80s. I'm a huge EC science-fiction fan, unsurprisingly then, of the Williamson / Frazetta type, and especially when it's emulated so well decades later.

Tough question in some cases. Neal Adams - Batman 251 Pretty much throughout, an artist at his peak.

Like Bird, I first started following McFarlane's work when he was on the Infinity Inc title. A new artist with a lot of potential at that stage.

Brine shrimp don't look even remotely ape-like. They lied!

It's clearly a classical Greek curtain pattern with an homage to the god Priapus.

I much prefer Golden's earlier work on Batman and Micronauts, where there was a lot of dark shadowing and some Berni Wrightson influence to the style.

I wouldn't mind Snyder doing a Third Cycle of the book. Enjoyed the series.

Disappointing. It also appears to have been quite quiet on the boards this week, as I expected to see another dozen or more pages of artistically-tasteful cheesecake imagery by now.

Quality not quantity. Another artist with very limited but brilliant mainstream comics work is David Mazzucchelli.

Good thing Wertham never spotted that.

I was a very fat kid and tall for my age. I'd never have got inside that.

Another comparison would be the FF with much earlier Simon and Kirby art from the late 40s to early 50s.

Yup. That's all it was, basically. In the 70s I was very envious of American kids being able to run silent and deep in one beneath a reservoir, lake, etc. So, I was glad to hear I didn't miss anything.

It's mandatory for comic artists to spend years honing their skills in that environment. Even Rob Liefeld spent some time interning at an advertising company, experience which taught him how to draw with his customary photo-realistic brilliance.

I never bought them by post, living in England. But, I have seen them. They're a bit rubbish.