Bracket Is Up - Golden Age Artist May Madness Tournament 3 3

[telerites]

6 minutes ago, Cat-Man_America said:

The add name(s) function doesn’t actually provide a selection choice, but rather a dissenting opinion.  Since no one else can see your write-in choice(s) the artists aren’t a viable candidate competing with the others.  

Yeah, I thought about that, Cat, but since I am using a freebie survey site, it is limiting on what features I can use.  

7 minutes ago, Cat-Man_America said:

BTW, since you say that participants in the poll can only vote once, I’m assuming you meant that to be on the honor system.  

It will limit you to vote only once but it will only apply that functionality if you are using the same device and I suppose if you clear cookies and cache, you can vote more than once from the same device. I know the limitation works because I tried to vote a second time and it would not let me.  But the honor system works too, I hope.

7 minutes ago, Cat-Man_America said:

FTR, this is NOT a criticism.  The poll is well done, easy to navigate and enjoyable. Major kudos for coming up with this! My picayune frustrations are purely subjective which is just par for the course with any poll using broad based selection criteria. 

Thank you, Cat, I appreciate it,  There were so many names to choose from and the few write-ins that have been received were names I considered and now feel bad I did not include them; although, to this point no other choices have included duplicate names.  I suspect as Jack did earlier forego adding others and just went with names on the list. 

BTW, I hope OAFCON is a go this year and we can get COVID-19 under control.  I always enjoy seeing you and others there.  Take care and just for you...

 

 

[telerites]

I have inactivated the survey - below are the results.

My plan had been to continue like March Madness until we have one winner.  I would propose that we use a less scientific approach since this could go on and on.  Let me play around with some bracketology and use some liberties based on the below order as their seeds even though there are ties and use some logical cut-off so it is pared down to a manageable number.

If we want to stop here, that works too as there is Schomburg got the most votes.

There were 51 total participants.

 

Seed	Artist	Votes
1	Alex Schomburg	27
2	Lou Fine	26
3	Wally Wood	25
4	Frank Frazetta	23
5	Matt Baker	22
6	Jack Kirby	20
7	Bill Everett	20
8	L.B. Cole	20
9	Will Eisner	17
10	Dan Zolnerowich	14
11	Carl Barks	14
12	Basil Wolverton	13
13	Al Feldstein	13
14	Reed Crandall	13
15	Al Williamson	11
16	Jack Cole	11
17	Mac Raboy	9
18	Creig Flessel	9
19	Joe Kubert	8
20	Russ Heath	8
21	Hal Foster	7
22	Jack Davis	7
23	Joe Simon	7
24	Alex Raymond	6
25	Johnny Craig	6
26	Graham Ingels	6
27	Winsor McKay	5
28	Jack Kamen	5
29	Joe Maneely	5
30	Lily Renee	5
31	Everett Raymond Kinstler	5
32	Walt Kelly	4
33	Milt Caniff	4
34	Maurice Whitman	4
35	Steve Ditko	4
36	Leo O'Melia	4
37	Bob Powell	4
38	Charles Biro	4
39	Bernard Bailey	4
40	Bob Fuje	3
41	Bob Montana	3
42	Rudy Palais	3
43	George Evans	3
44	Alex Toth	3
45	Jimmy Thompson	3
46	Joe Shuster	3
47	Irv Novick	3
48	Jim Mooney	3
49	Fletcher Hanks	3
50	Ogden Whitney	2
51	Harry Anderson	2
52	Joe Doolin	2
53	John Richard Flanagan	2
54	Harvey Kurtzman	2
55	Bernard "Bernie" Krigstein	2
56	Bill Ward	2
57	Sprang	2
58	Fred Ray	2
59	Sheldon Moldoff	2
60	Bob Kane	2
61	Jack Burnley	2
62	Carl Burgos	2
63	C. C. Beck	2
64	Murphy Anderson	2
65	Al Camy	1
66	Bill Elder	1
67	Angelo Torres	1
68	George Tuska	1
69	Curt Swan	1
70	Charles Sultan	1
71	Syd Shores	1
72	Jerry Robinson	1
73	Klaus Nordling	1
74	Tarpe Mills	1
75	Paul Gustavson	1
76	Fred Guardineer	1
77	Wayne Boring	1
78	Al Avison	1
79	Edd Ashe	0
80	Al Bryant	0
81	Alex Kotzky	0
82	Walter Johnson	0
83	Al Hartley	0
84	George Herriman	0
85	Frank R. Paul	0
86	Leonard Starr	0
87	Werner Roth	0
88	Roy Krenkel	0
89	Paul Cassidy	0
90	H.G. Peter	0
91	Irwin Hasen	0
92	John Severin	0
93	George Roussos	0
94	Don Rico	0
95	Howard Purcell	0
96	Kin Platt	0
97	Al Plastino	0
98	George Papp	0
99	Joe Orlando	0
100	Paul Norris	0
101	Chuck Cuidera	0
102	Martin Nodell	0
103	Ruben Moreira	0
104	Mort Meshkin	0
105	Al McWilliams	0
106	Sheldon Mayer	0
107	Bob Lubbers	0
108	Joe Gill	0
109	Al Gabriele	0
110	Gill Fox	0
	Other: George Rozen, Jack Binder, Ken Bald, Jay Disbrow, A.C. Hollingsworth, Matt Fox, Mort Leav

[Cobbledclam]

Briefer and HC Keifer 

didn't make the cut?

damn! I could have been a contender!

[thunsicker]

I think you definitely need to run this as a 64 seed tournament.  Keep our minds occupied.  Plus I assume the results would be much different if run as a tournament.

[Electricmastro]

I wonder how differently that would have played out if we had been familiar with all of them, going both by covers and interior art. Because I recall that Lou Fine worked on interior art as much as cover art, while Alex Schomburg rarely did interior art, yet Schomburg seems to have gotten just as many votes based on his effort on covers alone. Not saying people can’t vote how they want, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.

[sfcityduck]

Looks to me like the comic strip artists suffered because they were not really comic book artists and this was billed as a being about comic BOOK artists.  Because there is no way that Hal Foster does not make the top 10 of a list of greatest comic arists (comic books and comic strips).

[damonwad]

38 minutes ago, sfcityduck said:

Looks to me like the comic strip artists suffered because they were not really comic book artists and this was billed as a being about comic BOOK artists.  Because there is no way that Hal Foster does not make the top 10 of a list of greatest comic arists (comic books and comic strips).

I voted based on comic book work only so didn't include Foster and Raymond. Both would have easily made my top 5  if I considered the strip work also.

[Scrooge]

1 hour ago, damonwad said:

I voted based on comic book work only so didn't include Foster and Raymond. Both would have easily made my top 5  if I considered the strip work also.

I still voted for them … even though I knew most would have done the same as you did and they would not survive this round. Are we doing rounds? 

[Electricmastro]

2 hours ago, sfcityduck said:

Looks to me like the comic strip artists suffered because they were not really comic book artists and this was billed as a being about comic BOOK artists.  Because there is no way that Hal Foster does not make the top 10 of a list of greatest comic arists (comic books and comic strips).

For my part, I’m I wasn’t really familiar with comic strip art and voted more on comic book interiors I’ve come across, with some influence from covers as well.

[damonwad]

38 minutes ago, Scrooge said:

I still voted for them … even though I knew most would have done the same as you did and they would not survive this round. Are we doing rounds? 

I hope we do rounds. Should be some interesting match-ups.

[Ricksneatstuff]

Quite a list when Jerry Robinson is in 72nd place. 
 

Great work 

[telerites]

So we if we want to continue, here is what the 64 artist bracket would look like.  Where there was a tie in votes, I just took the order as in the results above.

I can create the game polls over the weekend if there is interest.  Post here is you would like to continue or if this is becoming tiresome (trust me, my feelings won't get hurt - the initial survey was fun to see to develop).

[piper]

I want to continue!

[mustang33guy]

Keep the train rolling!

[comicjack]

The train ran over me years ago so why not keep it going 

[Scrooge]

I have a feeling Jack Burnley isn't going to be around for too long ...

[damonwad]

May Madness. 

[Cat-Man_America]

23 hours ago, sfcityduck said:

Looks to me like the comic strip artists suffered because they were not really comic book artists and this was billed as a being about comic BOOK artists.  Because there is no way that Hal Foster does not make the top 10 of a list of greatest comic arists (comic books and comic strips).

Actually, it was billed as Golden Age Artists in the header.  There was no mention of the poll being limited to comic books.  That said, it is generally accepted that the golden age comics start in 1938 with the first appearance of Superman.  Technically, that would preclude most comic strip artists who achieved their greatest fame for work prior to 1938.  Notice that I mentioned Gearge Rozen, famous for his evocative Shadow pulp covers. Of course, some of his painted covers were transferred to early Shadow Comic covers in 1940, so his work would fit here even if limited to GA comics.  

All of this doesn’t really matter in the slightest anyway, as the poll is fun regardless of how the criteria is sliced.

Now it’s on to the brackets! 

 

[Cat-Man_America]

3 hours ago, Scrooge said:

I have a feeling Jack Burnley isn't going to be around for too long ...

Don’t feel bad, Jack Binder didn’t even make the first round cut, ...and he ran his own comic sweatshop! 

[telerites]

Okay folks.  We're ready!

I hope it is okay start a new thread for the tournament since I am not sure if I can keep editing the title of this one so go here -