SA ARTIST SURVIVOR SERIES: RD.2

[CAP Freak]

Well.Mutantkeys "Flies one" was pretty creepy too.

[selegue]

selegue - your avatar is the creepiest thing I have ever seen!

 

... and you've seen some mighty creepy things!

 

I love it.

Did you see where it came from? The GA Fawcett ad thread. I clipped 2 from there and used the other last night for about 15 minutes before settling on this one.

 

Jack

[seanfingh]

 

Maneely and Wilson again for me. Neither has any attachment to the Silver Age for me.

[-cryptkeeper-]

S. Clay Wilson

Harry Lucey

 

[Mephisto]

as a kid I always shuddered when I got home and opened up my JLAs and saw Sekowsky stiff awkward poses and sticky chested heroes.

 

Money shot Wonder Woman?

[rza808]

I had to vote Shelton

[rza808]

and Lucey

[rjpb]

Just noticed that S. Clay Wilson and Gilbert Shelton are getting a lot of votes...

 

Have to say their presence in this poll is very anomalous - Shelton (especially in tandem with Dave Sheridan) was an excellent artist, but did very little in the 1960s of merit - H Bomb Funnies, Feds And Heads and a couple of other books. The classic Freak Brothers issues were later, and he was still developing as an artist at this time.

 

Never mind the lack of connection with mainstream comics of the era. And as for Wilson, if ever there was an acquired taste in comics (at least until Tim Vigil came along) he was it. Not for the squeamish, and a very average artist, too. I'm baffled that he got in this poll.

 

Now that I think about it, I should've voted for him instead of Lucey.

Dont forget about Wonder Warthog!

 

I didn't....he first appeared in H Bomb Funnies. The best WW stories were later however, in the Rip - Off series. Gotta love the one where he becomes a pro-football player...

 

Wonder Warthog first appeared in a college humor magazine Bacchanal in 1962, and in another college magazine Texas Ranger shortly thereafter, before a number of the stories were reprinted in Help. Granted these weren't comic books, but Pete Millar's Drag Cartoons was, where WW appeared for about 20 issues 1966-68. Millar also published two magazine sized issues of WW's own mag. His appearance in H-Bomb funnies was rather late in the game.

[rjpb]

Sekowsky and Ayers this time - but could as easily have been Andru again. That Sekowsky romance page is decent - but his JLA stuff was just awful - worse than Andru's Spiderman.

[Dale Roberts]

Alot of us grew up with Andru Spider-man. Definitely not great, but I have a certain fondness for it, I guess out of sentimentality.

[toro]

Sekowsky and Shelton for me!

[selegue]

selegue - your avatar is the creepiest thing I have ever seen!

 

... and you've seen some mighty creepy things!

 

I love it.

Did you see where it came from? The GA Fawcett ad thread. I clipped 2 from there and used the other last night for about 15 minutes before settling on this one.

 

 

That's odd. I reverted to my old avatar while I was gone for a day. I wonder why.

 

Jack

 

 

[burntboy]

Tuska & Sekowski. I forgot how much I dislike Sekowsky until looking at this list right now!

Ditto. Although I`ve never forgotten how much I dislike Sekowsky.

 

Me either. Here's a random page. He wasn't even good enough to attempt to draw backgrounds...

 

 

exactly why i voted him off each round so far. as much as i loved the JLA and looked forward to it each month (or 8x's a year, whichever) i just hated how stiff and awkward everyone always looked. and those covers were always so lame............

 

and those undergrounders go next..........i always preferred realism - except for Harry Lucey................

[selegue]

Tuska & Sekowski. I forgot how much I dislike Sekowsky until looking at this list right now!

Ditto. Although I`ve never forgotten how much I dislike Sekowsky.

 

Me either. Here's a random page. He wasn't even good enough to attempt to draw backgrounds...

 

....

 

exactly why i voted him off each round so far. as much as i loved the JLA and looked forward to it each month (or 8x's a year, whichever) i just hated how stiff and awkward everyone always looked. and those covers were always so lame............

 

 

You almost had me agreeing, but some of the covers are great! (Most likely those that Murphy Anderson did most of the work on.)

 

 

 

 

and those undergrounders go next..........i always preferred realism - except for Harry Lucey................

 

I can't agree there.

The undergrounds were far more interesting and creative than mainstreams in the early 70s, to my taste. And I certainly don't demand realism in depicting flying people, 1" and 60' tall people, Martians, dinosaurs under the Antarctic, talking tigers, etc. I'm fine with fanciful talking animals in the Kelly vein, even Moscoso's nearly abstract drawings. (I like him better than Wilson or Spain, for example.) But if you DO want realism, Crumb can draw the pants off anyone from the mainstream books. (and probably would) Just look at his nonfiction work. Didn't I post some of that work? Isn't it great realism?

 

Great discussion here, but I think it's mostly moved to the next round.

 

Jack