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Post by coke & comics on Dec 22, 2015 18:49:49 GMT -5
And I guess Elfquest has the Final Quest series ongoing now. That's at 37 years, though I think we went about a decade without new material recently.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 22, 2015 19:01:44 GMT -5
Couldn't we also consider that Larsen has one added skill to his run : he kind of self publishes it, doesn't he?
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 22, 2015 19:05:58 GMT -5
Oh, and I guess Groo still comes out now and then 33 years later.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 22, 2015 19:33:01 GMT -5
Oh, BTW, I think Fred Perry got them both beat : Each issue colored, lettered, inked, drawn and written by Fred Perry, with its three volumes including annuals, specials etc, that's already 300 consecutive issues since 1993...
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 22, 2015 19:33:35 GMT -5
Having considered this more... if the question is what cartoonist has done or will do the most issues on a single series, excepting Dave Sim...
The answer seems to clearly be Fred Perry. At least based on wikipedia, there have been over 240 issues of Gold Digger.
Sakai and Larsen have some catching up to do.
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 22, 2015 19:34:19 GMT -5
Oh, BTW, I think Fred Perry got them both beat : Each issue colored, lettered, inked, drawn and written by Fred Perry, with its three volumes including annuals, specials etc, that's already 300 consecutive issues since 1993... I'd say you copied me, but you posted this before I did. However, less than a minute before I did. Great minds?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 22, 2015 19:38:40 GMT -5
Oh, BTW, I think Fred Perry got them both beat : Each issue colored, lettered, inked, drawn and written by Fred Perry, with its three volumes including annuals, specials etc, that's already 300 consecutive issues since 1993... I'd say you copied me, but you posted this before I did. However, less than a minute before I did. Great minds? Hehe, non non non, don't even try : I'm no pre-cog, I'm just on top on weird comics trivia of the 90ies-00ies (I only lost interest in global knowledge of this with Geoff Johns...)
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 22, 2015 19:46:51 GMT -5
Oh, and Takao Saito has been ploting, drawing layouts, and inking characters on Golgo 13 on a weekly basis since he created it in 1968, which now amounts to around 180 manga volumes
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Post by shaxper on Dec 22, 2015 20:02:06 GMT -5
My Sim, Sakai and Larsen total is zero, so I'm looking for someone to pass Eric Shanower. Of these I only really appreciate Sakai. I've tried a couple times to get into Savage Dragon. I appreciate it but have never taken the plunge to read it through. I've also tried to get into Cerebus. And... well... it's a hard slog. I tried the Free Comic Book Day issue of Savage Dragon and absolutely did not get into it. If another issue finds its way into my hands when I have nothing better to do, I might try again. And Cerebus...well it's worth the long term investment. I'll speak more about this within the next two days
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Post by shaxper on Dec 22, 2015 20:05:03 GMT -5
Having considered this more... if the question is what cartoonist has done or will do the most issues on a single series, excepting Dave Sim... The answer seems to clearly be Fred Perry. At least based on wikipedia, there have been over 240 issues of Gold Digger. Sakai and Larsen have some catching up to do. My bad for not clarifying in the OP that I meant American comic book creator. Yes, both are clearly outranked in both the worlds of Eurocomics and of Manga. As for the other American rivals you brought up, Aragones has not published consistently without interruption, and both the Pinis and the Hernandez brothers were not working solo.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 22, 2015 20:14:11 GMT -5
Eurocomics wise, I don't see a single creator with such a long lasting run... But Fred Perry is American, published in the US almost exclusively, he's even a veteran marine
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 22, 2015 20:30:53 GMT -5
I'd never heard of Fred Perry or Gold Digger before today.
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 22, 2015 20:36:43 GMT -5
Having considered this more... if the question is what cartoonist has done or will do the most issues on a single series, excepting Dave Sim... The answer seems to clearly be Fred Perry. At least based on wikipedia, there have been over 240 issues of Gold Digger. Sakai and Larsen have some catching up to do. My bad for not clarifying in the OP that I meant American comic book creator. Yes, both are clearly outranked in both the worlds of Eurocomics and of Manga. As for the other American rivals you brought up, Aragones has not published consistently without interruption, and both the Pinis and the Hernandez brothers were not working solo. As Arthur notes, Fred Perry is American, published by an American company. I think he wins by any standard. Did others help with the art & writing on Love & Rockets? I've only read a little, but understood it as two solo ventures. But yeah, Groo and Elfquest are done by creative teams, not cartoonists.
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 22, 2015 20:51:24 GMT -5
Having considered this more... if the question is what cartoonist has done or will do the most issues on a single series, excepting Dave Sim... The answer seems to clearly be Fred Perry. At least based on wikipedia, there have been over 240 issues of Gold Digger. Sakai and Larsen have some catching up to do. My bad for not clarifying in the OP that I meant American comic book creator. Yes, both are clearly outranked in both the worlds of Eurocomics and of Manga. As for the other American rivals you brought up, Aragones has not published consistently without interruption, and both the Pinis and the Hernandez brothers were not working solo. And consistency is a tricky word when talking about these comics. The first 5 years of Usagi were entirely inconsistent, showing up here and there in Albedo and Critters. When it got a regular series with Fantagraphics, it frequently missed a month or 2, sometimes coming out bimonthly, sometimes making 2 months in a row and then skipping a few. It averaged about 6 issues a year. It did the same 6 issues per year under Mirage. There was about a 6 month gap caused by the publisher change to Dark Horse. It did a little better under Dark Horse, but still missing lots of months, averaging 9 issues per year. And then his family issues and the making of 47 Ronin led to a 3 year gap. --- Savage Dragon I know less well, but it seems to have a similar history. While it's had a consistent publisher, it seems to miss the odd month and seems to average about 9 issues a month. I think it's fair to say that Savage Dragon has been semi-regularly for 22 years and Usagi has been semi-regular for 26, less Usagi's recent 3-year gap.
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 22, 2015 21:00:27 GMT -5
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