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Name any comic character, then say who you think was the artist that drew them best. Either just pencilled, or fully illustrated. Add a picture, if you feel like.

I'll start.

Shazam/Captain Marvel - Alex Ross

any DC character- Micheal Turner....

Batman- Jim Lee

Wolverine - John Byrne

Sasquatch-Clayton Henry

Punisher - Mike Zeck

Namor: Alex Ross

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Avengers - Perez

The Thing - Andy Kubert

Kyle Rayner - Luke Ross
Superman - Phil Jimenez
The Flash - Howard Porter
Nightwing - Jim Lee
Starfire - Michael Turner
Thor - Andrea Devito

Lots of great artists, but I'd have to say Ross is my favorite.

Originally posted by Bushwacker
Lots of great artists, but I'd have to say Ross is my favorite.

So who would you say Ross draws better than anyone?

I would say Superman.

The Silver Surfer - George Perez

Silver Surfer: Jack Kirby...

...despite his lousy knowledge of anatomy. There was an inherent Power to his figures that (IMO) even Ross doesnt capture, for all the "life-likeness" of his works.

Originally posted by who?-kid
DD - Frank Miller (who else ?) Alex Maleev...

Aquaman - Patrick Gleason, Jim Aparo

Gladiator - John Byrne, Ron Lim

Hercules/mithology Gods- John Buscema and Travel Foreman (check the art for the upcoming Ares mini series. Thats the best art for the greek gods ive seen).

Honorable mentions: Bob Layton and Scott Kollins (blood oath)

Wonder Woman & Scarlet Witch - George Perez

Wolverine - Lenil Francis Yu
The Question - Denys Cowan
Green Arrow - Phil Hester
Captain America - John Cassaday
Batman - Tim Sale
Black Panther - John Romita jr
Superman - Alex Ross

Originally posted by roughrider
Wonder Woman & Scarlet Witch - George Perez

QFT droolio

the silver surfer -stan lee

1) The Incredible Hulk - Dale Keown
2) The Silver Surfer - Claudio Castelini
3) Spiderman - Todd Mc Farlane
4) Batman, Black Canary, Robin, Wolverine, all of the X-men - Jim Lee
6) Power Girl - Bart Sears
7) Night Thrasher - Mark Bagley
8) Namor - Alex Ross
9) Thanos (Thanos Quest) - Ron Lim
10) Red Monika (Battle Chasers) - Joe Madureira
Although he is the only artist that I know of that actually worked on that title, I had to mention his awesome talent as an artist in my top ten.

Spider-man John Romita jr
Batman Jim Lee
Superman Jim Lee

Batman - Jim Lee
Spider-man - John Romita Jr or Mark Bagley
Avengers or Cable- Oliver Coipel
Ultimates- Bryan Hitch

anyone- Micheal Turner

Black Canary Ed Benes

Jim Lee - Superman

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haha you know what?
I;m gonna be different and list a comic none of you probly know because none of you have listed it, it also makes me rather angry
The Sandman-Sam Keith, Nuje Dringenberg and Malcolm Jones III
THERE YA GO!!

http://www.angelfire.com/ill/deathstoodfallen/images/wtf.JPG

Originally posted by thesilverspider
the silver surfer -stan lee

Huh?

Fantastic 4-Stan Lee
Spiderman- Mark Bagley, Todd McFarlene, John Romita ( His best shots are by these guys)
Ultimates- Bryan Hitch
But Iron Man sucks By Bagley. He looks fat in that suit.

Uh, everyone - maybe I'm wrong, but Stan Lee is a writer only. He has never drawn a comic. Put him in the thread for definitive writer.

I see a lot of responses seem to list a character's very recent artist. Do enough people look back some decades to previous work? For all the dozens of artists Wolverine has had for 30 years, I still say John Byrne drew him best, 26 years ago.

Alex Ross and anyone - checkout Justice, simply the best comic on sale!

Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
Alex Ross and anyone - checkout Justice, simply the best comic on sale!
Agreed, Alex Ross is in a league of his own artistically.
After him I like Perez, then Jim Lee probably.

Writers of course, Alan Moore, Wolfman, Millar... Johns had a really good JSA run. Gaiman. Ostrander.

Originally posted by Juntai
Agreed, Alex Ross is in a league of his own artistically.
After him I like Perez, then Jim Lee probably.

Writers of course, Alan Moore, Wolfman, Millar... Johns had a really good JSA run. Gaiman. Ostrander.

Agreed Morrison, Geffen, Ennis and Bendis also turn it on as writers sometimes. As did Layton and Shooter.

Byrne may be mad but he does both brilliantly sometimes.

Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
Agreed Morrison, Geffen, Ennis and Bendis also turn it on as writers sometimes. As did Layton and Shooter.

Byrne may be mad but he does both brilliantly sometimes. I think Byrne has mostly past his prime, similar in fashion to say...Frank Miller or Claremont, though all three have their moments..

Superman and Namor are the only people I think Ross does better than anyone. Maybe Barry Allen as well. I still can't get over how unattractive his women usually are.

Did anyone see Alex Ross' idea for Spideys costume? It was in the first movie game. Not to bad.

Silver Surfer - Jack Kirby...
Superman - Ed Benes/Alex Ross...
Batman - Jim Lee...
Cyclops - Jim Lee/Ian Churchill...
Wonder Woman - Michael Turner, Jim Lee or Ed Benes...

Batman- Jim Lee
Batman- Jim lee
Batman-Jim Lee
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Get the pint, amigos?
Batman-Jim Lee

What, Frank Miller didn't draw a good Batman?

truly, the art i find most attractive is that of patrick zircher. almost EVERY SINGLE character he drew in the first 24 of cable & deadpool astounded me, with the exceptions of domino and forge but, god. just amazing, particularly cable, deadpool, black box and the cat.

Susan Storm, The Invisible Woman - Steve McNiven.

His version of her in Civil War really caught my eye.

Thanos - Ron Lim
Silver Surfer - Ron Lim

Batman--Jim Lee
Wolverine--Jim Lee
Superman--Ed Benes
Green Lantern--Ed Benes/ Ivan Reis
Cyclops--Jim Lee
Supergirl-- Ian Churchill
Batgirl-- Ian Churchill

Covers -- Michael Turner

Originally posted by roughrider
Wonder Woman & Scarlet Witch - George Perez

pffft!

psylocke - jim lee

Darkseid - John Byrne.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/Nightmareman95/geniii10cover.jpg

Apocalypse - Walter Simonson

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/Nightmareman95/apocwalter.png

Spider-Man, Spawn, etc... ---- Todd MacFarlane

MacFarlane's a comics god.

Originally posted by willRules
Batman - Jim Lee
Spider-man - John Romita Jr or Mark Bagley
Avengers or Cable- Oliver Coipel
Ultimates- Bryan Hitch


Captain America- The guy drawing the current series or Steve Mcniven
Superman - Jim Lee
Green Arrow- The guy drawing the current series
Nightwing - The guy drawing the current GA series

Originally posted by Superguy
Batman- Jim Lee
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Get the pint, amigos?
Batman-Jim Lee

And someone criticised me when I said I wasn't buying All star Batman and Robin for the storyline, but for the art

Originally posted by db_renji
Superman--Ed Benes
Green Lantern--Ed Benes/ Ivan Reis
Supergirl-- Ian Churchill

those i definately agree with, though i liked Reis' Superman alot too...

For cyclops? jim lee is good, damn good, but ian churchill's cyke in uncanny #394 is for me as perfect as i've ever seen him...

wally west - howard porter, damn fine work...

shi - jim lee...

spidey - terry dodson

wonder woman - jim lee or ed benes...

Originally posted by bigbran
Thanos - Ron Lim
Silver Surfer - Ron Lim

Co signed, I also liked his Captain America a lot too.

Morbius..whoever the artist was he did him for the first issue and onwards.

Originally posted by Alfheim
Morbius..whoever the artist was he did him for the first issue and onwards.
Morbius the Living Vampire?
His original artist was Gil Kane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbius_the_Living_Vampire

In the midnight suns series?

This artist. Is that Gil Kaane?

Originally posted by Alfheim
This artist. Is that Gil Kaane?

No. The signature on the left side says 'Weaver' - I don't know who that is.

Originally posted by roughrider
Susan Storm, The Invisible Woman - Steve McNiven.

His version of her in Civil War really caught my eye.

yeah i liked that version too! if you click on my sig i have an image of her from civil war series . . . she looks hot!

Anything drawn by Dale Keown pitt_victory

Originally posted by ThePittman
Anything drawn by Dale Keown pitt_victory

He and Gary Frank did terrific work on the Hulk.

forgot this one...

colossus - whilce portacio... incredibly similar to the jim lee one at times, but slightly better imo...

Moon Knight drawn by Stephen Platt

http://www.shockmatrix.com/soulsaga/images/mk55.jpg

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Moon Knight drawn by Stephen Platt

http://www.shockmatrix.com/soulsaga/images/mk55.jpg

F*ck - Marc's having a very bad day, judging from the cover.

Originally posted by ThePittman
Anything drawn by Dale Keown pitt_victory

He does a kickass job drawing large brick-type characters.

Spidey - Bagley

Taskmaster - the guy who illustrated the UDON series back in 02, Alvin Lee? That version of taskmaster was friggin' amazing.

Females/heroines - Ed Benes

Punisher-Tim Bradstreet

I'm still partial to Bill Sienkiewicz's version of Moon Knight.

Originally posted by roughrider
F*ck - Marc's having a very bad day, judging from the cover.

lol! he does.

One of the best artist to ever capture the evilness and sinister image of The Joker is Jim Aparo.


http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5337/000001111lp7.jpg

This one disturb me as a kid.

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7817/aparojimwr6.jpg

Miss Marvel - Frank Cho.
He's got a real good handle on her assets.

Originally posted by roughrider
Miss Marvel - Frank Cho.
He's got a real good handle on her ass.

Agreed.

As of late, I LOVE Frank Quitely's depiction of All-Star Superman droolio:
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6593/allstarsupermancoverdt4.th.jpg

Of course Frank Quitely is the only person who's drawn A/S Supes, but it would be extremely hard to top IMO.

Originally posted by roughrider
No. The signature on the left side says 'Weaver' - I don't know who that is.

Oh ok well thats my favourite artist for Morbius. Anybody else is rubbish.

Thanos - Ron Lim
Nightwing - Scott McDaniel
Flash - Howard Porter

Originally posted by Wally West
Thanos - Ron Lim

Witchblade - Micheal Turner
TombRaider - Mark Silvestri

Speaking of Frank Cho and 'assets' ...

I don't think any version of Shanna ever looked better than his.

The Joker - Brian Bolland.
His version is just chilling.

The Flash - Michael Turner
Spider-Man - Bagley or Deodata jr.

The Thing - Jack Kirby or John Byrne

Batman - Neal Adams

Wolverine - John Byrne or Jim Lee

Mr. Fantastic - Mike Wieringo

Dr. Doom - John Bryne or Jack Kirby

Galactus - Jack Kirby

Haven't made up my mind yet, on who's done the best Thor.

Ultimate Thor is easy, though - Bryan Hitch.

Silver Surfer- Ron Lim
Wonder Woman - Mike Deodato Jr./Turner
Superman - Dan Jurgens
Storm - Joe Muradia or how ever you spell that

Punisher - John Romita Jr.
Batman - Jim Lee
Actually... X Men - Jim Lee (if we had to be specific it would take me forever)
Spiderman - Erik Larson (I know I'm the only one who thinks this. Oh well)

I'm undecided about Power Girl.
Is it Adam Hughes (left side)...or whoever was drawing JSA in the last edition? (right side)

Originally posted by roughrider
I'm undecided about Power Girl.
Is it Adam Hughes (left side)...or whoever was drawing JSA in the last edition? (right side)

Amanda Conner - that was the artist.

She manages to give Power Girl just the right touch of sexy bimbo appeal.

For Daredevil, names like Frank Miller and Alex Maleev come to mind very strongly...
...but in the end, I'll pick David Mazzucchelli.

Terry Dodson just might draw the best Wonder Woman of all - even better than George Perez or Phil Jimenez.

Now, if they could only publish her book on a regular basis...

Originally posted by Psyquis52
Punisher - John Romita Jr.
Batman - Jim Lee
Actually... X Men - Jim Lee (if we had to be specific it would take me forever)
Spiderman - Erik Larson (I know I'm the only one who thinks this. Oh well)

Never thought I'd see an Erik Larson vote.

Originally posted by roughrider
I'm undecided about Power Girl.
Is it Adam Hughes (left side)...or whoever was drawing JSA in the last edition? (right side)

is that the one i made? lol...

Originally posted by Raoul
is that the one i made? lol...

Did you? Thought I picked that up on some random google search...
You design on other sites?

my bad i didnt see this when i stated a similar topic,

Patrick Zircher - Cable

Originally posted by roughrider
Did you? Thought I picked that up on some random google search...
You design on other sites?

this is the wallpaper i made years ago:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/pr1983/wallpapers/th_pg2.jpg

very similar, i think...

Originally posted by roughrider
For Daredevil, names like Frank Miller and Alex Maleev come to mind very strongly...
...but in the end, I'll pick David Mazzucchelli.

Good call. It would be between Maleev (how is that pronounced? Is Mal-ay-ev or...?) and Mazzucchelli for me.

Batman- Jim Lee/ Jim Aparo/ Tim Sale/ Frank Miller.

Originally posted by Juk3n
my bad i didnt see this when i stated a similar topic,

Patrick Zircher - Cable

It's OK - you just reminded me about this thread, so I bumped it.

Bryan Hitch doing Ultimate Captain America.

(Actually, maybe the best Cap period, 616 or Ultimate.)

joker alex ross & brian bolland

Originally posted by roughrider
Bryan Hitch doing Ultimate Captain America.

(Actually, maybe the best Cap period, 616 or Ultimate.)

Agreed. Ultimate Cap = Pure awesomeness.


Although it looks like Pacheco is gonna do an awesome job when Millar returns to the title....

http://comicartcommunity.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=34074

Originally posted by willRules
Agreed. Ultimate Cap = Pure awesomeness.


Although it looks like Pacheco is gonna do an awesome job when Millar returns to the title....

http://comicartcommunity.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=34074

"sieg heil"

Originally posted by Kris Blaze
"sieg heil"

Ironically enough Millar said in a Wizard interview for the series That Cap would confront his son, a tattooed terrorist called "The Red Skull"

Originally posted by willRules
Ironically enough Millar said in a Wizard interview for the series That Cap would confront his son, a tattooed terrorist called "The Red Skull"

Whoa...

Originally posted by chomperx9
joker alex ross & brian bolland

Of those two, I think I would pick Brian Bolland's version.

Black Adam by John Byrne.
See how he brings a touch of Namor to him.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/john+byrne+black+adam+/messiahsjedi/John%2520Byrne%2520Collection/713173-blackadam_super.jpg