Current Cover Artists Who May Be Remembered Like The GA Greats (Schomberg, Fine, Baker et al) 3 3

[Krydel4]

What are your current favorite Cover Artists that you think people will be debating and collecting (just for the covers) like the GA Artists that are popular and have remained so 70 years after the fact? 

I think Jock will be one as he already has an iconic Cover in Detective Comics 880. Another two I think will be J.Scott Campbell and Adam Hughes as they have that GGA feel in the vein of Matt Baker.

Thoughts?

[Dr Zen]

[Ken Aldred]

 

Any opportunity to post my favourite modern cover. 

 

Edited February 26, 2023 by Ken Aldred

[WolverineX]

On 2/25/2023 at 7:20 PM, Ken Aldred said:

 

Any opportunity to post my favourite modern cover. 

 

The best.  

[Funnybooks]

Hands down Alex Ross

[Funnybooks]

On 2/25/2023 at 6:05 PM, Pizza Boy said:

J. Scott Campbell draws women's faces way better than Matt Baker...

 

 

 

 

 

Yes...it's the same face 1000x over 

[Cat]

Stanley Lau aka Artgerm perhaps? 

Milo Manara. 

[Readcomix]

He’s obviously not current because he died prematurely but I feel Dave Stevens deserves a mention here.

[Funnybooks]

On 2/26/2023 at 12:31 AM, Readcomix said:

He’s obviously not current because he died prematurely but I feel Dave Stevens deserves a mention here.

winner

[bronze johnny]

On 2/25/2023 at 5:59 PM, Krydel4 said:

What are your current favorite Cover Artists that you think people will be debating and collecting (just for the covers) like the GA Artists that are popular and have remained so 70 years after the fact? 

I think Jock will be one as he already has an iconic Cover in Detective Comics 880. Another two I think will be J.Scott Campbell and Adam Hughes as they have that GGA feel in the vein of Matt Baker.

Thoughts?

Curious as to how much do cover artists today rely on computer graphics to enhance their art?

[Math Teacher]

I would like to put a vote in for Bruce Timm.

[D2]

J Scott Campbell.

He is the true maker of the Cover Artist. 
 

Followed closely by Michael Turner and Adam Hughes. 
 

Aside from that, I think we all have our personal favourites. 
 

I like Manara. Others like Dell’otto…

But I think the 3 mentioned above will be the 3 pillars. 

[Tnexus]

On 2/25/2023 at 6:46 PM, Funnybooks said:

Yes...it's the same face 1000x over 

Dude literally draws his wife's face on every cover now.

[Funnybooks]

On 2/26/2023 at 12:06 PM, Tnexus said:

Dude literally draws his wife's face on every cover now.

[D2]

On 2/26/2023 at 12:06 PM, Tnexus said:

Dude literally draws his wife's face on every cover now.

I agree, his cover work has been extremely weak and disappointing. 

It’s quite clear he managed to capitalize on his star power to maximum leverage. 

I would also go so far as to say that he comes off as lazy. 

That being said, I am still very much a huge fan of his Danger Girl work back at Cliffhanger! to which he made sure to put his best foot forward. It’s his best work and the pinnacle of J Scott Campbell talent. 

Those days are gone. He will never devote himself like that to a book again. 

[Ken Aldred]

On 2/26/2023 at 4:15 PM, Math Teacher said:

I would like to put a vote in for Bruce Timm.

Good alternative for a more cartoony style. You’d also have to consider Darwyn Cooke.

[bronze johnny]

I asked the OP but will now raise it with others: how much do cover artists today rely on computer graphics to enhance their art?

[bronze johnny]

J. Scott Campbell, Adam Hughes, Michael Turner, Mark Schultz and Dave Stevens would place above the good girl artists of the 1940s and 1950s (Lubbers, Baker, Doolin, Kamen, Schomburg, etc.). They would even give the romance artists of the Silver and early Bronze Ages (Pike, Estrada, Cardy, Jones, etc.) a run for their money.

[Ken Aldred]

On 2/26/2023 at 10:00 PM, Pizza Boy said:

Then he doesn't go on this list!

Do I hear a vote for Joe Mad or Humberto Ramos too?

 

May as well put Liefeld on as well.

Now we mock, but perhaps future generations will better understand the abstractions in his art and consider him an old school master of cover design. Just as Dali introduced symbolism into his masterpieces, perhaps the absence of feet in those created by Liefeld will be better understood  by our descendants, rather than ridiculed by the limited, unsophisticated intellects of the present.

 

 

[Ken Aldred]

I’m joking.