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Story vs art in comics

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Maccai3

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What comes to your mind when you think about great art- bad story and vice versa in comics?

 

And what are your favourites where the balance (great story-great art) has been reached?

 

regards

 

great story/bad art - i always wonder why they don't get a different artist before they release it

 

great art/bad story - i wonder how they sold the idea

 

great story/great art - (i'll go more recent books so we don't just cite classics)

 

Black Beetle

Breath of Bones - A tale of a golem

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Good topic. For me, it's always been a challenge getting through a book with a superb story but mediocre art. If the story is bad, but the art brilliant, it's much easier to digest. The visuals are much more important to me.

 

I love the Uncanny X-Men 94-141 run. Though I get much more out of the Claremont-Byrne issues than I do Claremont-Cockrum. While Cockrum is important to the X-Men canon, I sometimes wonder if the X-Men and Wolverine would have been as popular today if Byrne never laid his hand on that title.

 

I also think Silver Surfer (vol II) run would have been more appreciated if the visuals were handled by a different artist. Sorry Ron Lim fans, despite good spurts of story-telling by Englehart, Starlin, et al., Lim's art, for me, just didn't do it. While it did last 146 issues, I think that title had the potential to be much more. Just Imagine: What If John Buscema illustrated Silver Surfer Vol II?

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Good topic. For me, it's always been a challenge getting through a book with a superb story but mediocre art. If the story is bad, but the art brilliant, it's much easier to digest. The visuals are much more important to me.

 

I love the Uncanny X-Men 94-141 run. Though I get much more out of the Claremont-Byrne issues than I do Claremont-Cockrum. While Cockrum is important to the X-Men canon, I sometimes wonder if the X-Men and Wolverine would have been as popular today if Byrne never laid his hand on that title.

 

I also think Silver Surfer (vol II) run would have been more appreciated if the visuals were handled by a different artist. Sorry Ron Lim fans, despite good spurts of story-telling by Englehart, Starlin, et al., Lim's art, for me, just didn't do it. While it did last 146 issues, I think that title had the potential to be much more. Just Imagine: What If John Buscema illustrated Silver Surfer Vol II?

 

This is what makes comic collecting so great.

I loved Lim's art on Surfer, and felt it was a perfect match.

 

I won't follow my favorite artists from book to book just because they are illustrating it, but I will always pick up a new series, or run, that any of my favorite writers begin.

 

I used to be an artist fan, but as I've grown older, I am more about the storytelling.

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Pedro1974

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What comes to your mind when you think about great art- bad story and vice versa in comics?

 

And what are your favourites where the balance (great story-great art) has been reached?

 

regards

 

great story/bad art - i always wonder why they don't get a different artist before they release it

 

great art/bad story - i wonder how they sold the idea

 

great story/great art - (i'll go more recent books so we don't just cite classics)

 

Black Beetle

Breath of Bones - A tale of a golem

Blacksad

 

Blacksad :cloud9:

 

Didn't knew this great project was avaiable in the US.

 

Do many of you know/ read this title?

 

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Maccai3

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What comes to your mind when you think about great art- bad story and vice versa in comics?

 

And what are your favourites where the balance (great story-great art) has been reached?

 

regards

 

great story/bad art - i always wonder why they don't get a different artist before they release it

 

great art/bad story - i wonder how they sold the idea

 

great story/great art - (i'll go more recent books so we don't just cite classics)

 

Black Beetle

Breath of Bones - A tale of a golem

Blacksad

 

Blacksad :cloud9:

 

Didn't knew this great project was avaiable in the US.

 

Do many of you know/ read this title?

 

220px-Blacksad_1_action.jpg

 

BLACKSAD_04_crack.jpg

 

Blacksad4casebar.jpg

 

The first 3 books are collected in hardcover and the 4th is a seperate hardcover, the 5th, Amarillo is available in English from October in UK so ii'm guessing its around then for US too

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The finest action poses, good girl art, and stylized noodling don't compensate for a mediocre understanding of how words and pictures interplay to create strong graphic storytelling.

 

Well worth repeating.

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Pedro1974

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The finest action poses, good girl art, and stylized noodling don't compensate for a mediocre understanding of how words and pictures interplay to create strong graphic storytelling.

 

Well worth repeating.

 

+1

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Pedro1974

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On a more mainstream (and modern) sugestion, i would propose the inhumans mini-séries written by Paul Jenkins and the great Jae Lee.

 

Loved this fantastic combo good writer + great artist... :cloud9:

 

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loved the issue where an old man remembers his encounter with triton, where triton saves him from drowning!

 

 

 

 

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Both, and I would add in Inker as well, as some of my favorite artists (Byrne, Adams, etc.) do much better with some inkers than others.

 

For example, I collect books with Buscema-Staton art in them, but neither guy individually.

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Pedro1974

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Both, and I would add in Inker as well, as some of my favorite artists (Byrne, Adams, etc.) do much better with some inkers than others.

 

For example, I collect books with Buscema-Staton art in them, but neither guy individually.

 

writer, artist and inker, indeed (thumbs u

 

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