Game: GOLDEN AGE BEST ARTIST SURVIVOR SERIES: Round 1

[Comicdey]

I voted off Joe Simon...just because

[Norrin_Radd]

How about google searching some of the guys work

How about putting it in the GA Thread where people actually have a clue, across the board, on this stuff.

 

My thoughts exactly. It's a much tougher survivor series. With so many great artists, it's going to be tough to choose.

[1koko]

No Flessel

[Sal]

i know who all of them are. except Gene Fawcette. never heard of that dude

[Scrooge]

i know who all of them are. except Gene Fawcette. never heard of that dude

 

He is kind of the odd man out on that list. I don't he should have made the cut but he's a better artist than the guy I voted to get off this first round ...

 

If Fawcette is on this list, then Maurice Whitman is more deserving for instance even though they are about as well as each other. In my mind, Fawcette is mostly associated with Plane strip even though he did work on other genres. Here's a Fawcette illustration -

[CAP Freak]

I'm with you guys I've never heard of most of them. I just went with nominations,

[selegue]

i know who all of them are. except Gene Fawcette. never heard of that dude

 

He is kind of the odd man out on that list. I don't he should have made the cut but he's a better artist than the guy I voted to get off this first round ...

 

If Fawcette is on this list, then Maurice Whitman is more deserving for instance even though they are about as well as each other. In my mind, Fawcette is mostly associated with Plane strip even though he did work on other genres. Here's a Fawcette illustration -

 

Fawcette was by far the least known for me. I looked up several samples before giving him my vote. Whitman, if he were on the list, would not have received my first round vote. (I wouldn't have voted off Zolnerowich, Renée despite her small body of work, or Flessel either). Now I'm puzzled who on the list you regard as a weaker artist than Fawcette. Simon?

 

Jack

(Maybe I missed Bob Kane's name.)

 

[Aman619]

adding samples of their best work might be helpful. I never heard of Fawcette, lik eI suspect many others, so seeing his work was helpful.

[thirdgreenham]

I voted for Walt Kelly to leave. I'm sorry to the people that'll be upset. I, as many others here, don't have a clue who many of the nominees are. Again, the first 10 rounds, I'm just going to use a pre-emptive sorry for all of them.

 

Andy

[goldust40]

i know who all of them are. except Gene Fawcette. never heard of that dude

 

He is kind of the odd man out on that list. I don't he should have made the cut but he's a better artist than the guy I voted to get off this first round ...

 

If Fawcette is on this list, then Maurice Whitman is more deserving for instance even though they are about as well as each other. In my mind, Fawcette is mostly associated with Plane strip even though he did work on other genres. Here's a Fawcette illustration -

 

Fawcette was by far the least known for me. I looked up several samples before giving him my vote. Whitman, if he were on the list, would not have received my first round vote. (I wouldn't have voted off Zolnerowich, Renée despite her small body of work, or Flessel either). Now I'm puzzled who on the list you regard as a weaker artist than Fawcette. Simon?

 

Jack

(Maybe I missed Bob Kane's name.)

 

I'd've thought Flessel would've been a certainty, and Zolnerowich's work on Planet would've also been enough for inclusion.

 

I wouldn't have left off Maneely, and where (if Kelly and Hogarth are included) was Milton Caniff?

[143ksk]

(Maybe I missed Bob Kane's name.)

 

Yup! He was voted off so fast it was like a blur

[selegue]

adding samples of their best work might be helpful. I never heard of Fawcette, lik eI suspect many others, so seeing his work was helpful.

 

How's this? Nominees and results of last year's Golden Age favorites contest:

 

Non-superhero nominees

 

Non-superhero winners

 

Superhero nominees

 

Superhero winners

 

Some Walt Kelly favorites!

 

 

 

 

No one nominated Maurice Whitman?

 

 

or John Stanley?

 

 

Jack

 

 

 

 

 

 

[thirdgreenham]

Some Walt Kelly favorites!

 

 

 

Jack

 

 

Damn! Now I'm feel badly that I voted for him. Beautifully drawn.

 

Andy

[Doctor Svord]

i know who all of them are. except Gene Fawcette. never heard of that dude

 

He is kind of the odd man out on that list. I don't he should have made the cut but he's a better artist than the guy I voted to get off this first round ...

 

If Fawcette is on this list, then Maurice Whitman is more deserving for instance even though they are about as well as each other. In my mind, Fawcette is mostly associated with Plane strip even though he did work on other genres. Here's a Fawcette illustration -

 

 

Thanks for the illo Scrooge!

 

Whitman is definitely deserving. I love Fawcette's Sci-Fi work, which is why I nominated him.

 

Voted Hogarth. Burne Hogarth is a wonderful artist, but he's primarily a newspaper guy. Weren't most of his books reprints of the strips? I honestly don't know.

 

(Fawcette courtesy of the GCD)

[selegue]

Kelly was one of the greats -- and that's without even looking at his Pogo work!

 

With all due respect, why are people voting out an artist without looking at examples of his (no her this time) work?

 

If the links I provided aren't enough, go to Grand Comic-Book Database, type in the artist's name, set the pull-down menu to Penciller, and hit Search.

 

Jack

(taking a contest too seriously, as usual)

 

Some Walt Kelly favorites!

 

 

 

Jack

 

 

Damn! Now I'm feel badly that I voted for him. Beautifully drawn.

 

Andy

[tth2]

Did Burne Hogarth do comics?

[CAP Freak]

I assumed so.

From Wikipedia:

After more than 20 years away from strip work and being hailed in Europe as "the Michelangelo of the comic strip," Hogarth returned to sequential art in 1972 with his groundbreaking Tarzan of the Apes, a large format hardbound book published by Watson Guptill in 11 languages. It marks the beginning of the sober volume of integrated pictorial fiction, what is currently understood to be a graphic novel. He followed with Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1976), integrating previously unattempted techniques such as hidden, covert, and negative space imagery with Goethe-inspired color themes into a harmonious visual description, a pinnacle of narrative art. Classes are taught examining the many innovative schemes within these two books.

[tth2]

figure Frezetta ... will be on bronze and silver age lists too

[tth2]

I assumed so.

From Wikipedia:

After more than 20 years away from strip work and being hailed in Europe as "the Michelangelo of the comic strip," Hogarth returned to sequential art in 1972 with his groundbreaking Tarzan of the Apes, a large format hardbound book published by Watson Guptill in 11 languages. It marks the beginning of the sober volume of integrated pictorial fiction, what is currently understood to be a graphic novel. He followed with Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1976), integrating previously unattempted techniques such as hidden, covert, and negative space imagery with Goethe-inspired color themes into a harmonious visual description, a pinnacle of narrative art. Classes are taught examining the many innovative schemes within these two books.

I still don`t see from this what comic book work he did. He did lots of comic strip work and is considered one of the greats in that medium (although personally I`m not a big fan of his), but I don`t know what comic work he did other than having his Tarzan comic strips reprinted in some comics. Which shouldn`t count.

[tth2]

I surprised even myself by not voting Alex Schomburg off, even I think he is by far the most overrated artist of the GA. Instead, I voted against Jerry Robinson because the main reason I never got into GA Batman was I always thought the art was pretty poor.