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Post by shaxper on Oct 9, 2015 3:05:33 GMT -5
The Long Halloween: Week 2Share your #4 favorite classic comic horror artist here. Be sure to include images and explanations to justify your selection! The rules / guidelines
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Post by shaxper on Oct 9, 2015 3:15:10 GMT -5
Week #2Not one of the artists that I suspect fans tend to think of when we discuss comic book horror, nor an artist who's technical style, itself, blows me away, Jim Aparo makes this list based entirely on his work on The Spectre with Michael Fleischer. With a stringent comic code in place, he and Fleischer found brilliantly imaginative ways to create utterly disturbing and unforgettably gruesome visuals that were (amazingly enough) completely comic-code compliant. Can't show blood? That's okay. I'm pretty sure readers can't help but imagine the follow-up to this panel:  Can't show dismemberment? Okay, let's go back to that Silver Age Spectre story where the Spectre turned a criminal into a candle and then melted him down, but then leave out the part where he was turned into the candle first:  Or how about any of these gruesome visuals that were totally comic-code compliant:    Man, even just Aparo's Spectre kind of gave me the chills:  So to what extent these visuals were the brain child of Fleischer or Aparo, I couldn't pretend to know, but Aparo sure brought them to life in panel after panel of unforgettable visuals that will forever remain imprinted on my brain. That's comic book horror.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2015 8:16:00 GMT -5
At Number 4 - Stephen R. Bissette He's a master of sheer horror of where hordes of skeletons coming out of the boondocks terrifying this poor woman soul out of sheer torture and disbelief. He only use a minimal of colors white/black for the skeletons and white/red for the terrified soul of a young woman screaming out of her lungs trying her best to escape the hordes of skeletons coming at you. This is Bissette's great work as an artist for Boom shown here.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 9, 2015 11:08:33 GMT -5
4. Gray MorrowHe did some great work for a lot of companies, but my favorite is his stint as a one-man horror band at Archie:  
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 9, 2015 11:36:21 GMT -5
Week #2Dave McKean  There's nothing graphic, gory or particularly violent about Mckean's art work but his use of mixed mediums never fails to disturb me on some level. His use of found objects, photography and traditional painted art work in a single piece gives his work a very deep sense of un-realness that makes it look like you're seeing a nightmare brought to life.  His work is just unsettling, like the ravings of a total madman or the clues left behind by a deranged serial killer and I love it.
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Post by MDG on Oct 9, 2015 14:01:06 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 9, 2015 14:01:46 GMT -5
More Burns:  |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Oct 9, 2015 19:23:38 GMT -5
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Post by DubipR on Oct 9, 2015 19:52:58 GMT -5
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 9, 2015 19:54:50 GMT -5
Toth just missed my list!
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 9, 2015 20:13:31 GMT -5
Coming in at #4 is Neal Adams. Neal is probably the best horror cover artist on my list. He made quite an impression on me with his scary images although, he wasn't really known for Horror interiors and that's why he only makes it to #4.  This wolf is practically coming off the cover.   |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Oct 9, 2015 21:20:52 GMT -5
#4: Harry Anderson (Week 2)
In the crowded field of 1950s horror comics, Harry Anderson managed to stand out with a finely-detailed and meticulous style that virtually leapt off the page.
His figures have weight and heft, and are convincingly dynamic. And though his covers are legendary, his interior game was also solid, lavishing attention on each panel with hundreds of individual lines
no matter how absurd the subject matter.
Like many of his contemporaries, Anderson often juxtaposed horrific elements with the banal and mundane, and he did it with a remarkable deftness, like in this unusual Atlas cover that makes great use of white space:
It's a testament to Anderson's skill that even under the bright light, his monster still horrifies. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2015 21:42:22 GMT -5
More Burns: This is fantastic MDG and thanks for sharing this!  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2015 22:15:49 GMT -5
Week 2/#4 on my list.... Tom SuttonThis cover was my first exposure to Tom Sutton's work and haunted my nightmares as a child...  The look of sheer terror on the girl's face cut right through me and the grotesque presence of the sewer dwellers just creeped me the hell out. Here again we see the facial expressions that just read terror...specially the eyes...  and again...  Not only is he able to portray the horrific and the grotesque beautifully, but the people experiencing those things look genuinely terrified, adding to the the horrific experience of the readers. The verisimilitude of the facial expressions breaks down the barrier of disbelief making the horrific events portrayed feel more real than fiction-at least it did for me. Those facial expressions and body language depictions just cut right through me and made the scenes depicted all the more terrifying. More Sutton...   (glad I never saw that one as a kid or I would never have looked at my teddy bear the same way again)  even without human figures he can evoke a mood of dread...as this Poe splash illustrates... and then there's Alice Cooper....  'nuff said. -M |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 10, 2015 9:54:14 GMT -5
It's exciting to see artists already being repeated!
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