Lynd Ward - I'm interested. His story Wild Pilgrimage is in Graphic Witness, the same collection in which I read Masereel's Passion, but I haven't gotten round to it yet.

Kirby - love that image of Beautiful Dreamer. Whenever I see it I always wonder if it's an indication that Kirby planned a bigger role for that character than she had played up to that point.

Dave Stevens - like his art, but I don't think comics were his strong point. He would have been a great poster artist or something along those lines.

Charles Burns - I liked Hard-boiled Defective Stories, El Borbah, all that stuff. Haven't read Black Hole yet, though.

Gary Larsen - genius. I think I didn't pick him because his writing outshines the artwork for me. The latter is certainly functional enough, but I couldn't say I like it for its own sake.

Wally Wood - a personal favourite.

Eric Shanower - I appreciate the work he's put into this project but his art always feels a little drab to me. The Iliad is an important book to me, so I'm probably more hard to please than is fair.

Robert Minor - first I ever heard of his work and I like what I see here. Will investigate further.

Herriman - haven't read enough to have an opinion but want to give it a good look one of these days

Urosawa - story sounds interesting but can't say the art grabs me.

Jeff Jones - like his work as a paperback cover artist very much, haven't read any of his comics, which I had totally forgotten about until being reminded of them here. Will probably want to find them if only for the artwork.

Jinky Coronado - the art isn't my kind of thing - reminds me of Jim Lee and people like that.

Rube Goldberg - I shouldn't flaunt my ignorance, but I never knew until now that "Rube Goldberg machine" referred to an artist!

Good to see!  Mayer was my # 13 -  I think you're actually the only person to have him on their list!  For shame, all the rest of us.  

Shelly Mayer definitely slipped my mind. He likely wouldn't have made my list...because I haven't read a lot of his work. But I love what I've read.

Making time for this today, and not looking at anyone else's choices (yet).

I know I'm leaving some "big" names off, but (blasphemy): Kirby, Ditko, Jeff Smith, Los Bros Hernandez,etc. . never really did it for me.

So my list is gonna be MY favorites that affected me over the years. .although I absolutely acknowledge that the above mentioned, as well as many others, vastly have influenced the medium over the years.

ok.

#11: Richard Moore

My #11 choice is, again, someone I followed for a long time, although his output tends to be few and far between comic wise these days.

and to be honest, it was his art style that drew me in, in the first place -- I found some of his art to be very. . ahem, stimulating.

(Yes, i even followed him when he did some of the adult and furry stuff, such as Genus: Male).

he just has a very, very good understanding of the human body (in particular, REAL looking human bodies, both male and female). He reminds me very much of Linsner, but Moore is a *much* stronger writer, and that's really what got me hooked.

I loved his first book, "Far West" that came out in the late 90's with it's blend of Genres


but what really hooked me on him (besides the visuals) was his follow up: "Boneyard" for NBM, about a man who inherits a Graveyard, and the creatures who live, and love, within.

the mix of humor, horror, and just some great "caper-type" storytelling hooked me immediately, and I thought, "hey, this guy GETS me. .this is what I would create if I could"