OT: what are your 100 most notable non-comic illustrations of the 1980s and up 0

[Bronty]

For fun I put together a list of 100 of, in my opinion, the best/ most desirable non-comic illustrations from the 1980s up.

I'm sure I'm missing good pieces, even whole categories, as its impossible to know everything about everything, and I'm sure my list skews towards my biases but when the list is so big in scope, how can it not.

What's your top 100?

Exclude digital art, photo art, etc.   I also tried to ignore pieces where the art's primary purpose was for something else.   

There were lots more albums I wanted to include, but most of them are photos, few had real art... I don't know rpg games at all so I'm sure I missed lots of good ones there.   

 

 

albums	doggystyle
	licensed to ill
	van halen 1984
	iron maiden live after death
	iron maiden somewhere in time
	appetite for destruction (williams version)
	mellon collie and the infinite sadness
	master of puppets
	fear of a black planet
action figures	he-man
	skeletor
	castle greyskull
	fright zone
	spydor
	megatron
	optimus prime
	jetfire
	starscream
	shockwave
	cobra commander
	destro
	snake eyes
	storm shadow
	duke
movie posters	empire strikes back
	ET
	raider of the lost art
	first blood
	back to the future
	return of the jedi
	indiana jones and the temple of doom
	rambo
	big trouble in little china
pc games	diablo 2
	diablo
	doom
	doom 2
	karateka
	zork (full art variant)
rpg games	d&d 1980 basic rules set
	d&d 1980 advanced rules set
magic cards	black lotus
	mox emerald
	mox sapphire
	mox ruby
	mox pearl
	mox jet
	timetwister
	ancestral recall
	time walk
	underground sea
	sol ring
	demonic tutor
	serra angel
	counterspell
	mana drain
	library of alexandria
	mishra's factory
	lightning bolt
	dark ritual
pinball	addams family backglass art
	medieval madness backglass art
	twilight zone backglass art
	attack from mars
books	It
	Mists of Avalon
console games	zelda
	zelda 2 (link)
	zelda 3 lttp
	mega man
	mega man 2
	mega man 5
	mega man 7
	mega man X
	contra
	double dragon
	turtles in time
	contra 3
	little samson
	flintstones 2 dino peak
	ogre battle
	street figher 2
	super mario 2
	super mario 3
	super mario world
	super mario kart
	ghosts n goblins
	castlevania
	super castlevania 4
	dragon warrior 2
	final fantasy
	gradius
	sonic
	sonic 2
	ghouls n ghosts
	gunstar heroes
	super metroid
	chrono trigger
	secret of mana

Edited February 9, 2017 by Bronty

[Bronty]

oh and if 100 is too much work, feel free to post your top 10's, top 25's, top 50's, whatever

[delekkerste]

The first four things that come to mind for me are:

Roger Dean - Asia album cover

Erol Otus - D&D basic set cover

Roger Kastel - Empire Strikes Back movie poster

Patrick Nagel - Duran Duran Rio album cover

Edited February 9, 2017 by delekkerste

[mister_not_so_nice]

Raymond Pettibon - BLACK FLAG album covers (Family Man and My War especially)

[Bronty]

27 minutes ago, delekkerste said:

The first four things that come to mind for me are:

Roger Dean - Asia album cover

Erol Otus - D&D basic set cover

Roger Kastel - Empire Strikes Back movie poster

Patrick Nagel - Duran Duran Rio album cover

Isn't the Otus late 70s?

[delekkerste]

1 minute ago, Bronty said:

Isn't the Otus late 70s?

I don't know when he painted it, but it was used for the 1981 revision of the basic set. 

[Bronty]

Ok.   That's probably the same one I put on my list then

[Bronty]

31 minutes ago, mister_not_so_nice said:

Raymond Pettibon - BLACK FLAG album covers (Family Man and My War especially)

Those are really cool, they wouldn't make my list but an expanded list they'd be on

[Bird]

Frazetta Meat Loaf, Zappa albums, Roger Dean YES and related stuff, Stanley Mouse Grateful Dead, Struzen movie posters, McGinnis paperbacks.

 

[Bronty]

what frazetta meatloaf is that?  There was a wrightson, a whelan, a bell... I don't remember a frazetta one?  

how about the mcginnis stuff?   I thought that was all 60s and 70s

Edited February 9, 2017 by Bronty

[Bird]

oopsie, yes, I meant corben. Frazetta was Molly Hatchett. Yeah, I guess I completely ignored 80s and went back a little. Young'un! 

Definitely Eddie from Maiden.

Edited February 9, 2017 by Bird

[BCarter27]

Nagel Rio cover

Giger Alien (1979?)

Struzan Goonies and Harry Potter posters

Wrightson Frankenstein,  The Stand

Whelan Dark Tower, Arrival series

Alan Lee Castles, Faeries, (70s?), LotR

Barry Smith Icarus

Kinuko Craft Dallas Opera Ring Cycle paintings (look 'em up!) or Sleeping Beauty cover

Anything by Thomas Kincaide or Bob Ross

James Gurney Dinotopia

Renato Casaro Conan the Barbarian posters

Michael Komarck's Art of Ice and Fire cover

Stephen Youll A Clash of Kings or A Storm of Swords covers

John Howe Gandalf

Mary Grandre Harry Potter

Kazu Kibuishi Harry Potter new covers

Bob Peak Excalibur, Star Trek

Ghost in the Shell movie poster

Akira posters A and B

 

 

 

[vodou]

On 2/9/2017 at 3:41 PM, Bronty said:

For fun I put together a list of 100 of, in my opinion, the best/ most desirable non-comic illustrations from the 1980s up.

I'm sure I'm missing good pieces, even whole categories, as its impossible to know everything about everything, and I'm sure my list skews towards my biases but when the list is so big in scope, how can it not.

What's your top 100?

Exclude digital art, photo art, etc.   I also tried to ignore pieces where the art's primary purpose was for something else.   

There were lots more albums I wanted to include, but most of them are photos, few had real art... I don't know rpg games at all so I'm sure I missed lots of good ones there.   

 

 

albums	doggystyle
	licensed to ill
	van halen 1984
	iron maiden live after death
	iron maiden somewhere in time
	appetite for destruction (williams version)
	mellon collie and the infinite sadness
	master of puppets
	fear of a black planet
action figures	he-man
	skeletor
	castle greyskull
	fright zone
	spydor
	megatron
	optimus prime
	jetfire
	starscream
	shockwave
	cobra commander
	destro
	snake eyes
	storm shadow
	duke
movie posters	empire strikes back
	ET
	raider of the lost art
	first blood
	back to the future
	return of the jedi
	indiana jones and the temple of doom
	rambo
	big trouble in little china
pc games	diablo 2
	diablo
	doom
	doom 2
	karateka
	zork (full art variant)
rpg games	d&d 1980 basic rules set
	d&d 1980 advanced rules set
magic cards	black lotus
	mox emerald
	mox sapphire
	mox ruby
	mox pearl
	mox jet
	timetwister
	ancestral recall
	time walk
	underground sea
	sol ring
	demonic tutor
	serra angel
	counterspell
	mana drain
	library of alexandria
	mishra's factory
	lightning bolt
	dark ritual
pinball	addams family backglass art
	medieval madness backglass art
	twilight zone backglass art
	attack from mars
books	It
	Mists of Avalon
console games	zelda
	zelda 2 (link)
	zelda 3 lttp
	mega man
	mega man 2
	mega man 5
	mega man 7
	mega man X
	contra
	double dragon
	turtles in time
	contra 3
	little samson
	flintstones 2 dino peak
	ogre battle
	street figher 2
	super mario 2
	super mario 3
	super mario world
	super mario kart
	ghosts n goblins
	castlevania
	super castlevania 4
	dragon warrior 2
	final fantasy
	gradius
	sonic
	sonic 2
	ghouls n ghosts
	gunstar heroes
	super metroid
	chrono trigger
	secret of mana

Wow. Somebody had some free time in the office, snow day, somethin'...

[delekkerste]

On Thu Feb 09 2017 at 4:05 PM, delekkerste said:

The first four things that come to mind for me are:

Roger Dean - Asia album cover

Erol Otus - D&D basic set cover

Roger Kastel - Empire Strikes Back movie poster

Patrick Nagel - Duran Duran Rio album cover

You know, I was thinking recently about creating a "Fantasy Art Collection" thread where people picked their top 10 illustration or comic art pieces (no fine art), if money and availability were no object.   I would be curious to see how many iconic illustrations like the ones listed in this thread would make peoples' lists over comic art.  I'm pretty sure about half of my list would be illustration art, including all 4 pieces cited above. 

 

 

[ATKokmen]

New Yorker cover illustrations are the first thing that came to my mind. It's featured so many iconic cover images over the years, perhaps increasingly so since Françoise Mouly became the art editor in the early 1990s.

[Bronty]

Michael:   You're not wrong, lots of snow here lately.   Melted now.

 

Gene:   Yeah, comics don't figure prominently for me at all post 1990 or so.    Lots of pre 90 comic pieces would be interesting but if I changed this list to be 90s up, all illustrations including comics?   I'd have 3 or 4 comic covers on it total, on the top 100 list.   On the top ten list I'd have none.   They just aren't that relevant (to me) once you get into that early 90s gimmick age

[vodou]

6 hours ago, Bronty said:

Michael:   You're not wrong, lots of snow here lately.   Melted now.

Ditto. Not melted now

[Bronty]

16 hours ago, Bronty said:

 

 

Gene:   Yeah, comics don't figure prominently for me at all post 1990 or so.    Lots of pre 90 comic pieces would be interesting but if I changed this list to be 90s up, all illustrations including comics?   I'd have 3 or 4 comic covers on it total, on the top 100 list.   On the top ten list I'd have none.   They just aren't that relevant (to me) once you get into that early 90s gimmick age

to tie this back in to the thread about modern art and that.   I do agree that modern comic art won't be worth so much long term.. but not because of the format of the art.     Just because at the end of the day, comics don't matter much as an entertainment vehicle post 1990.   That's about the time they became mostly irrelevant.    I've collected all my life and yet when I sit down and think about it I really don't give a flying fark about 99.99% of post 1990 comics.   Sitting down to create this list really crystallized that for me. 

Edited February 13, 2017 by Bronty