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Take the Cap lot for $25

Take Avengers 75

Take Avengers 67 and 81

Take Avengers 61

Like Electro? Especially when one of the later artists drew him?

So iconic it made his Slurpee cup!!

Infantino is for sure worthy of consideration, as is I believe Swan and Anderson. Gil Kane too. They all helped DC give comics a (second or third) great boost in the arm (and arguably indirectly helped spur on the Marvel explosion of the 60's and beyond). And if I recall my tour guides correctly, Rushmore sculptor Borglum chose Washington as a symbol of the founding of the Union, Jefferson as he expanded the Union, Lincoln for preserving the Union, and Roosevelt for protecting the Union. Regarding the founding of the medium, I think that's why the Shuster pick makes a lot of sense. Of course you could go back to Gaines or Major Malcolm too.

I like to see considerations like this for comics outside the superhero genre. The vast majority of the comics ever sold were genres other than superheroes! Think westerns, romance, crime, horror, humor, and funny animal - heck, even Classics Illustrated reached a far and ranging audience. Honestly, I'd put Dan DeCarlo up there sooner than somebody like Frazetta He's just more indispensable to the medium at large. And if he had arrived at Archie a little sooner, he'd be a shoe-in, but Bob Montana set the tone at Archie before DeCarlo sanitized and perfected it. A fairly decent-sized chunk of all the comics ever sold have been Archie publications - after that, Harvey was a powerhouse in children's comics for decades, so the Kremer nomination I believe is spot-on.

I may not agree with the inclusion of the, errrrr, Toddfather, but I love how well laid out your reasoning is, so kudos! As I noted in my opening, comics haven't always been about the superheroes. I'd like to see at least one non-superhero comic artist here and there...

I would probably be scared if you invited those guys to the party.

Okay, with that trespass into utter obscurity, are you sure we're not jogging things from your memory that you'll need later on??

I too was impressed by the simple elegance of the logic.

When his odyssey was on display for all to see in that brilliant New Mutants run, I was simply blown away.

Now that is the kind of interesting brush with fame that's going to make me consider you for my film if they ever task me with Ghost World 2! Please stand by...

But... but... but... since Mount Rushmore is in America that sort of implies American artists. You're taking advantage of a technicality!! p.s. Yeah, Barks is da man!

Wait, wouldn't Fat Freddy's Cat alone get Shelton up there?? I think Corben would count...

I love this pick, and I know very little about the man, but I would need to know he never saw anything by Basil Wolverton to put him on my mountain.

Crumb and Shelton INSTANTLY.

I never "got" Crane the way I probably should. Harriman, too. I'd take Walt Kelly over Harriman as well, although Kat operated on a surreal plane, not just a swamp.

Georg Cantor? Another mindf__k. Stop messing with my head!

Oh gawd, how brilliant was Riemann? I will check it out! After all, we have to embrace rigor in our threads.

So no comic "book" artist cracks the overall comic artists list? Not even Kirby? Did you want to put Foster, Hogarth or Caniff on the latter?

I will have to go into hiding for this, but I think for a brief moment in time, Stevens' peak work eclipsed Frazetta's. Williamson and Krenkel and other stylists came close to Frazetta, but I prefer Stevens' cleaner pen work at his zenith, even though it may have been a tad more posed or stiff. Just think of that 3-D Sheena cover: it's like you smashed Foster, Hogarth and a smidge of Frazetta together. Lavish and technical at the same time. (I have the strongest feeling Frazetta was more organic, however, and I know that factors into his amazing following.)

Well put!

Whoa, I think if Jim Steranko heard you say that, you two would be throwing down. You don't want to tangle with Steranko P4P!