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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 19, 2019 15:00:53 GMT -5
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 19, 2019 15:40:22 GMT -5
Whomever developed the house style each publisher adopted and asked their artists to follow. DeCarlo for Archie. For Marvel it was Kirby, then Buscema, What's interesting about Marvel is that it was Romita--arguably more than any artist--had a style so preferred that he inked and/or touched up the work of innumerable artists, including Kirby, Starlin, Buckler, both Buscemas, Colan, Heck---the list goes on an on. Its no wonder his work was used as licensing art more than anyone else in the 70s & 80s (and can be seen son products today). Of course, when Marvel (through Simon & Schuster/Fireside) published the various "origin" TPBs in the 70s, many often featured Romita's paintings, a least until Bob Larkin started producing TPB covers toward the end of that decade. This reminds me of how Neal Adams and Murphy Anderson were tasked to clean up many a DC artist's work, including correcting anatomy, or giving characters (like Superman) the "right" face when the original illustrator was too far from the character standard. Romita touched up so many artist, not because his style was preferred, but because he was Art Director and that was his job. Not that Stan didn't love his work. Though for Stan everything started with Kirby, he told any new artist to study Kirby. |
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 19, 2019 15:41:48 GMT -5
I always thought that Gulacy patterned his style after Steranko.   And there was an artist that did work for Action comics on a Black Canary feature that looked like he was trying to look like Gulacy, his name was Randy Deburke   There is no question that Gulacy took his style from Steranko, both are very open about it. |
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Post by MDG on Mar 19, 2019 16:22:33 GMT -5
What's interesting about Marvel is that it was Romita--arguably more than any artist--had a style so preferred that he inked and/or touched up the work of innumerable artists, including Kirby, Starlin, Buckler, both Buscemas, Colan, Heck---the list goes on an on. Its no wonder his work was used as licensing art more than anyone else in the 70s & 80s (and can be seen son products today). Of course, when Marvel (through Simon & Schuster/Fireside) published the various "origin" TPBs in the 70s, many often featured Romita's paintings, a least until Bob Larkin started producing TPB covers toward the end of that decade. This reminds me of how Neal Adams and Murphy Anderson were tasked to clean up many a DC artist's work, including correcting anatomy, or giving characters (like Superman) the "right" face when the original illustrator was too far from the character standard. Romita touched up so many artist, not because his style was preferred, but because he was Art Director and that was his job. Not that Stan didn't love his work. Though for Stan everything started with Kirby, he told any new artist to study Kirby. There's a story that at DC in the 50s, new artists were shown an Alex Toth page to understand storytelling, also that Dan Barry was the guy to emulate stylistically. In the 60s, it seemed a lot of the artist's in Schwartz's stable adopted Infantino's long (or wide) narrow panels. Maybe someone like Cei-U! knows more about this.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 20, 2019 9:13:24 GMT -5
Vic Bridges did work in the industry around the mid 90's but his biggest gig was for Erik Larsen drawing a spin off book from Savage Dragon called Freakforce. I definitely saw some John Byrne influences in his work.   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 20, 2019 9:22:56 GMT -5
Another Bridges page. Notice the non action page and the similar positioning of the characters to a Byrne page.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 20, 2019 18:34:29 GMT -5
During the big comic boom in the early 90's Stephen Platt burst upon the scene . His 15 minutes of fame came primarily because many fans thought his work looked like Todd Mcfarlane. This ones for you , shaxper .    Personally, I don't see it. |
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Mar 20, 2019 21:41:11 GMT -5
 Always saw Kirby and the Buscema bros in Ron Frenz's work. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 20, 2019 22:16:37 GMT -5
Frenz also does a mean Ditko, per "The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man."
Cei-U!
I summon the reasonable facsimile!
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Post by berkley on Mar 20, 2019 23:38:00 GMT -5
One notable (and IMO deplorable) thing I see in some of these samples is how some imitators will exaggerate the characteristic flourishes of their models into something approaching a caricature of the original style. The guy imitating MacFarlane looks a bit like that, as does Kelly Jones's Wrightson-derived stuff, to me eyes.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 21, 2019 11:13:15 GMT -5
There were two John Buscema influenced artists that worked at Marvel during the mid 90's. Steve Epting   And MC Wymans   |
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 21, 2019 11:44:23 GMT -5
Yep, Epting went on to develop his own great style. I don't know about Wyman.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 21, 2019 11:50:03 GMT -5
I don't think Wyman is doing monthly comic work, but he has been doing commissions.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 23, 2019 7:03:35 GMT -5
George Perez as done by Phil Jimenez   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 7:25:31 GMT -5
George Perez as done by Phil Jimenez Thanks for sharing this ... this is interesting and surprised me a bit too. |
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