Favorite post-1975 artist

[Guest]

Who's your favorite? I've chosen a period beyond the Adams/Steranko/Smith/Wrightson dominated era, so as to factor them out.

 

I love John Byrne's 1975-1986 stuff, so that's how I'd vote, with Miller and Perez close behind.

[murph0]

McFarlane's work on Spiderman.

John Romita Jr.

And that would be about it :\

 

Brian

[Rickdogg]

John Byrne, McFarlane, Jim Lee

[chromium]

Mike Mignola

[Zonker]

I'll add a vote for the Marshall Rogers / Terry Austin team-- on Batman in Detective Comics and on Mr. Miracle, as well as Dr. Strange at Marvel.

 

Oh yeah, that reminds me of Mike Golden, who followed the same route: Batman and Mr. Miracle, then a Dr. Strange 1-shot before Micronauts, the Nam, Marvel Fanfare...

 

Cheers,

Z.

[ubiquiti]

JOhn Byre of course, then Paul SMith for his amazingly short run of X-Men, then Golden(looking at some of his stuff recently, he is waay better than i remembered). Sal Velluto is also an incredible artist that should be mentioned as well.

[delekkerste]

I loved Byrne's X-Men run, of course, and Paul Smith's all-too-short run as well. Both Miller's and Mazzuchelli's work on Daredevil were standouts for me. Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri on X-Men were great too. Never liked McFarlane's work on Spidey (too cartoony for me and coupled with some truly atrocious scripting) nor JrJr's current run on Spidey and the Hulk (also too cartoony for me).

 

I liked the Bissette/Totleben run on Swamp Thing quite a bit, Mike Grell's various projects (Warlord, Jon Sable, etc.) and Brian Bolland's excellent work on The Killing Joke, Judge Dredd and all his cover work for DC.

 

My favorite artists these days actually are over at CrossGen - Greg Land does absolutely stunning work on Sojourn and Butch Guice has been on fire with Ruse. Their art is both beautiful and very realistic. I hate the sloppy, cartoony and/or manga-influenced art that destroyed Marvel in the 1990s and still plagues the Big Two publishers today.

 

Gene

[FlComicFan]

All nice choices. I especially like Perez and Byrne because they have a vast amount of work to enjoy. I only wish Golden and Marshall Rogers had drawn more stuff. Love to see Miller back to drawing panel art rather than 22 splash pages,

[FlyingDonut]

Sam Keith Sandman

Dave Keown Hulk

Bob Layton Ironman

George Perez Justice League and Avengers

John Byrne Fantastic Four

 

and the prettiest books in a long time:

 

Sandman 50 - P. Craig Russell

Sandman 75 - Charles Vess

[The_Man_Of_Steel]

One of my favorite artists of the post 1975 era is without a doubt George Perez. If you did not know and want to see a wealth of George Perez art just go to http://www.georgeperez.com/ I recommend checking out the unpublished section too

 

[Kevin Boyd]

1960-1975:

 

Ditko (#1)

Steranko

Kirby

Windsor-Smith

Kaluta

Wrightson

Jeff Jones

Murphy Anderson

John Buscema

Neal Adams

Nick Cardy

 

1975-1990:

 

John Byrne (#1)

George Perez

John Romita, Jr.

Frank Miller

Bissette & Totleben (together and separately)

Jim Starlin

Matt Wagner

Dave Gibbons

Brian Bolland

Pat Broderick

Paul Smith

Michael Golden

Mike Zeck

Dave Sim

 

1990-now:

 

Alex Ross (#1)

Mike Mignola

Adam Hughes

Kevin Maguire

John Cassaday

Tim Sale

Mark Bagley

Phil Hester

J. Scott Campbell

 

But overall, silver/bronze/modern I would have to agree with many of you and say that John Byrne is my favourite artist.

 

Kev

[ubiquiti]

No Neal Adams on the 1960-1975??

Heresy!!

 

[Bronty]

Miller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aardvark88]

1. John Byrne X-men, Star Lord

2. W Simonson Manhunter in Detective

3. Gil Kane numerous Marvel covers & DC Atom, Action, Supes

4. Judge Dredd non-Brian Bolland

5. D Sim Cerebus 1-24

6. M Golden Micronauts, Dr Strange

7. J Lee/Scott Wms X-men, new Detective.

8. Jim Starlin Capt Marvel, Strange Tales, Warlock)

9. M Rogers Detective, Mr Miracle

10. Carlos Pacheco Avengers related titles.

Will pass on F Miller, Todd, Liefeld, Silvestri, D Keown & G Perez. Ho, hum.

[supapimp]

off the top of my head

frank miller

michael golden

mike zeck

david mazzuchelli

dave sim

art adams

paul smith

mike drinenberg

tim vigil

 

[Lantern]

Miller's and Mazzuchelli's work on Daredevil were standouts for me.

 

I second that. In fact, probably my favorite of the specified time period.

 

 

[Bonds25]

Art Adams and Todd McFarlane.

[awe4one]

Jim Lee

Art Adams

Mike Deodato

Brent Andersen

George Perez

The Lai Brothers

 

 

Jim

[aardvark88]

What funny bks do the Lai bros. draw? Not familiar w/ newer artists.

[FlComicFan]

Paul Gulacy/Mike Zeck/Gene Day all on Master of Kung Fu!