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Post by tonebone on Aug 30, 2021 8:31:57 GMT -5
The first artist whom I remember being able to recognize was Steve Ditko, though not necessarily in a good way. I wasn't a fan of his work, especially not his 70's/80's stuff. I wonder how many of us HATED Ditko and Kirby's work as young kids, but grew to see their genius later on. I think every comics fan I know echo this sentiment. Also, they all agree Ditko and Kirby were among the first they could recognize by their style.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 30, 2021 8:54:34 GMT -5
As I stated recently in your Drawn to Comics thread, it was recognizing Byrne's art across a number of Marvel titles in late '78/early '79 that got me to pay attention to artist credits, and then writer credits not long afterward. Before that, I obviously recognized different art styles, and - like many others - being turned off by say, books featuring art by Kirby, Ditko, Infantino or Robbins.
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Post by Graphic Autist on Aug 30, 2021 14:06:44 GMT -5
Remember when Spidey's webs didn't look "spaghettified?"
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 30, 2021 14:30:25 GMT -5
Remember when Spidey's webs didn't look "spaghettified?" Thank Todd McFarlane, who got the look of those webs from Michael Golden.
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Post by Graphic Autist on Aug 30, 2021 14:51:54 GMT -5
Remember when Spidey's webs didn't look "spaghettified?" Thank Todd McFarlane, who got the look of those webs from Michael Golden. I remember McFarlane was the one who popularized their use...almost every other artist immediately switched how they drew Spidey's webs to the way McFarlane was doing it. However, I had no idea he wasn't the one who came up with that style.
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 30, 2021 15:31:45 GMT -5
McFarlane was influenced by this Golden portfolio piece.
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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 31, 2021 8:12:11 GMT -5
In Golden's piece, I like the webbing effect from the right hand; it suggests a dynamic whirling motion as the webbing is ejected. If he'd kept the webs in Spidey's left hand the traditional silken strand, I'd be happy, but it doesn't make sense for the already-fired-off webs to be gnarly.
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Post by badwolf on Aug 31, 2021 16:15:05 GMT -5
The first artist whom I remember being able to recognize was Steve Ditko, though not necessarily in a good way. I wasn't a fan of his work, especially not his 70's/80's stuff. I wonder how many of us HATED Ditko and Kirby's work as young kids, but grew to see their genius later on. I think every comics fan I know echo this sentiment. Also, they all agree Ditko and Kirby were among the first they could recognize by their style. I still don't like either of them much... but I can appreciate them.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Aug 31, 2021 16:42:27 GMT -5
The first artist whom I remember being able to recognize was Steve Ditko, though not necessarily in a good way. I wasn't a fan of his work, especially not his 70's/80's stuff. I wonder how many of us HATED Ditko and Kirby's work as young kids, but grew to see their genius later on. I think every comics fan I know echo this sentiment. Also, they all agree Ditko and Kirby were among the first they could recognize by their style. The first artist whose name I could attach to an identifiable style was very probably Neal Adams. And, as such, I disliked Kirby, whose work seemed crude and primitive in comparison. It wasn't until much later that I could fully appreciate his genius.
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Post by berkley on Aug 31, 2021 16:52:27 GMT -5
The first artist whom I remember being able to recognize was Steve Ditko, though not necessarily in a good way. I wasn't a fan of his work, especially not his 70's/80's stuff. I wonder how many of us HATED Ditko and Kirby's work as young kids, but grew to see their genius later on. I think every comics fan I know echo this sentiment. Also, they all agree Ditko and Kirby were among the first they could recognize by their style.
With Ditko I think it was mainly the faces that took me some getting used to, especially with a few of the female characters. Otherwise, I was exposed toat an early enough age that I just accepted his style for what it was - I hadn't had my taste in comics art set in advance by more realistic artists like John Buscema. I always liked Ditko's bodies - Spider-Man looked strong to me, something about the way Ditko rendered musculature ... and Clea had great legs!
Kirby I never had a problem with at all, his FF, Captain America, and Thor were some of the earliest superhero comics I remember reading, so his art felt "normal" to me from the get-go. Maybe this wouldn't have been the case had I been a few years younger and the New Gods or the Eternals had been my first exposure, by which time his style had become more exaggerated..
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Post by Confessor on Aug 31, 2021 17:17:55 GMT -5
The first artist whom I remember being able to recognize was Steve Ditko, though not necessarily in a good way. I wasn't a fan of his work, especially not his 70's/80's stuff. I wonder how many of us HATED Ditko and Kirby's work as young kids, but grew to see their genius later on. I think every comics fan I know echo this sentiment. Also, they all agree Ditko and Kirby were among the first they could recognize by their style. I always loved Steve Ditko's artwork even as a kid (I encountered it in reprints of ASM in Marvel Tales in the early 80s). But I still don't really like Jack Kirby's art very much. I mean, it's really dynamic and I do dig all the totally over the top "Kirby tech", but my god it's ugly. Sorry Kirby fans.
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Post by Farrar on Sept 1, 2021 16:46:28 GMT -5
Trying to Remember When I was first capable of recognizing artists in simply seeing their artwork? ... The first artist whose work I could recognize was definitely Kurt Schaffenberger's, on Lois Lane. And from the start of my comics reading days, I could always recognize the work of inkers Jack Abel and Vince Colletta--love their work, though I will admit that back then it took me a while to warm up to Abel's inks on Curt Swan (in the Legion feature), as I was used to the Swan-Klein team.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 22, 2021 14:43:46 GMT -5
Was talking with a friend last night and Remembering When the early days of the LCS meant us comic book afficiando's suddenly had LOTS of choices to shop at regularly. No longer limited to grocery and convenience stores the growth of individual owned stores saw a sudden boom and it was seemingly overnight as dozens of local shops popped up. Here in Phoenix you had over a dozen within minutes of driving to choose from. And many more in the cities surrounding the valley.
We could spend all day hitting multiple stores or spread it out over days, taking our time. Now we were no longer at the mercy of distribution contracts. All in one place was EVERY comic being created. If you had a pull box the "search" became much easier. Additionally, there is also the joy of each LCS having their own specialty and rows of long boxes of back issues for digging through.
What joy. Cut to modern days and there is only a handful of LCS to be found here in Phoenix. A 45 minute drive at the least or over an hour to cities surrounding. What a big change over time. Even the content of comics to be found inside has changed. The size of shops has shrunk, the quantity of new and old issues to choose from has become smaller. The LCS is no longer the fun hangout, but a place quickly jumped in and out of.
The LCS has become a thing of the past to be lost in fond memories as the internet is now the main source of purchasing.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 22, 2021 16:53:56 GMT -5
I didn't have the option of dozens of comic shops - I grew up in a pretty rural area, and the nearest larger(ish) city was Salem, OR, which initially had only one LCS when I discovered that such things even existed (in 1981; another one opened about a year later). That first one was pretty cool, though, as it also sold old paperbacks - so heaven, basically. Anyway, it was definitely having a one-stop shop for my comics hit, rather than depending on the spinner racks - even though I still those and the magazine aisles in drug stores. The comic book shop, though, opened up the new world of indie comics to me, Pacific in particular, which just launched in 1981.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 22, 2021 16:57:07 GMT -5
I never had access to a comic book shop until I was in college. There was a sum total of ONE in Idaho until probably 1985 when a second one opened in Boise.
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