Best art you have seen in a book/comic book?

Originally posted by Estacado
2 more from Dale Keown...
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http://www.myspace.com/corecomics/photos/907402#%7B%22ImageId%22%3A907402%7D

Yep Keown is very talented, and easily one of my all time top 10 artists ever. The crazy thing is that he doesn't think that he's all that good. Maybe he's just really humble. Either way he's a really cool guy.

Originally posted by JayDaDon
Ryan Stegman. He should be in charge of drawing Spider-man......forever.

He's not as good as Todd McFarlane, which is what I get when I look at his artwork.

Dunno about best, but my favourite artists are -

Clint Langley (only his ABC Warriors stuff though, his other work looks a bit too computerised to me).

Carl Critchlow

John Burns

Jack Kirby, Bill Sienkiewicz, early Frank Miller's Marvel artwork, David Mack, and Alex Maleev.

Love gritty, nostalgic, and surrealistic comics art. Daredevil is still my fave as well.

Agustin Alessio.

Sample:

Originally posted by Galan007
Agustin Alessio.

Sample:

What's that from?

Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison. It is an absolutely brilliant mini.

I've been meaning to start collecting Star Wars comics before they inevitably go from Dark Horse to Marvel.

You won't regret it.

Is the "Star Wars" ongoing any good? I'm glad there seems to be a refocus on the Galactic Civil War era.

Gotta say, Ghost Prison is probably the best SW-related mini I've ever read. Tbh, it's one of the best comic book minis I've read period.

I highly suggest it. You won't be disappointed.

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
Is the "Star Wars" ongoing any good? I'm glad there seems to be a refocus on the Galactic Civil War era.

Originally posted by Stoic
Yep Keown is very talented, and easily one of my all time top 10 artists ever. The crazy thing is that he doesn't think that he's all that good. Maybe he's just really humble. Either way he's a really cool guy.

He's not as good as Todd McFarlane, which is what I get when I look at his artwork.

Naw I like McFarlane, but Stegman has him beat in my opinion when it comes to spidey. Mcfarlane had a tendency to get wonky with body proportions and faces. Still a great artist but for me Stegman just captures how spidey should look and move.

JH Williams lll on Batwoman is brilliant. Arguably one of the best artists in the industry now.

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
I've been meaning to start collecting Star Wars comics before they inevitably go from Dark Horse to Marvel.

Bendis writing Star Wars

i can see that.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Bendis writing Star Wars

i can see that.

Chewbacca would go on to beat the shit out of Vader somehow.

I was about to say watch him have Han learn the force and ragestomp Vader.

Putting aside the painted work of Alex Ross, Easd Ribic and the others (let's put that in a separate category), I think some of the best, most flawlessly penciled & inked drawn art I've ever seen was Phil Jimenez's work on New X-Men, and Bryan Hitch's work on The Ultimates (in particular, Ultimates vol. 2)

I say flawless in the sense of photo realism, and how comic art often depends on slight caricature - the old Jack Kirby rule about exaggerating for effect. Those series, I got the feeling of watching real people through a glass panel.

I don't mind Alan Davis

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