Who are your favorite comic artists?

[zombi1978]

Hence the title "Who are your favorite comic artists?" I would like to open a thread to create a balance to the manga factor. Never underestimate the fact that Western comics were essential for manga to get the format it has till today. Okay, a remarkable art style was there since a couple of hundred years, but it was its Western counterpart that made a development happen after WWII.

To start up this thread I'd like to introduce you to this Swiss guy here:



Thomas Ott, heavily inspired by the works of Marc Caro, developed a beautiful and unique art style for his own dark comedy comics: He copies his sketches onto entirely black cardboards and uses a box cutter to finally scratch them out. His marvelous results look like these:











Truly marvelous, aren't they?

C'mon, show something of yourselves. I do not want this new thread to become dead/disappointing like the previous "Interested in art?" thread.

[Krieg]

Milo Manara, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Dean Motter (Mister X), Karl Kopinski (mainly for his work on the first tome of Kal Jerico), Colin Macneil (Bloodquest 2 and 3),

[fokkusu]

Barbucci & Canepa (Skydoll), Roger Leloup (Yoko Tsuno), Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon)
All have awesome work. =D

[fokkusu]

Oh yeah, and I really like a lot of Andrew Dickman's work; as is obviously obvious just by looking at a fan animation I did of one of his WIP titles and all the fanart I've accumulated over the years of said title. ^_^; Well, okay, he's technically not a comic artist so much as a cartoonist and character designer; though I have indeed seen a few comic pages he did years ago.
Also... I've found from talking to the guy that we both seem to have the problem of making too many characters without getting into their backstories enough. ; Damn, and I was hoping I could get some advice to remedy that... oh well.

[zombi1978]

Honestly I wanted this thread to be clean of any mangaka artists, to ensure a certain balanced basis - but there you go again.

[Vendaval Este]

Mate, I stand by the idea of "manga = comic" and try not to really divide the two, because there are no differences. It's why there's no "manga" section on this board, because the manga section is the "comics" section.

[invidninja92]

While certainly not obscure by any stretch of the imagination, I really like Norihiro Yagi's artwork for Claymore.

[zombi1978]

Jan 6, 2011 18:44:04 GMT invidninja92 said:

While certainly not obscure by any stretch of the imagination, I really like Norihiro Yagi's artwork for Claymore.

Norihiro mega baked Yagi?

Jan 6, 2011 18:25:00 GMT Vendaval Este said:

Mate, I stand by the idea of "manga = comic" and try not to really divide the two, because there are no differences. It's why there's no "manga" section on this board, because the manga section is the "comics" section.

I wanted this thread to be dedicated to comics, because also I'd like to make some new experciences with good comics even I have never heard of. Also to kill off the current stagnation!! and make things more colorful.

[thienin]

I've always been a massive fan of Bob Kane's work.