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Post by dbutler69 on May 24, 2021 13:17:23 GMT -5
Let's say you're in a comicon in Shangri-La, and you meet you all-time favorite artist (dead or alive, because it's Shangri-La) and he/she offers to draw for you a sketch of any one character for free. Who's the artist, and the character?
For me, I'll pick George Perez as my artist. So, the relatively easy part is over. The hard part is choosing the character for him to draw.
My first Marvel comic ever was an issue of Fantastic Four drawn by Perez, and the Thing is one of my all-time favorite characters (as much as I can have a favorite character, since it depends in the writer and the artist, but as least I think the Thing has been more consistently written over the years than most characters) and the only other FF member I really care for is Mr. Fantastic, but he's not very visually interesting.
Then again, a lot of my earliest Avengers comics were Perez, and he of course knocked those out of the park as well. The Avengers is defnitely something I associate with George Perez, more so than the Fantastic Four. I could ask him to draw Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Vision, Black Panther, or Hawkeye. All cool looking characters whom I like.
Then again, the New Teen Titans is Perez at the height of his powers, and I loved that book as well. I could ask him to draw one of the characters he co-created (Cyborg, Raven, Starfire) or Kid Flash, who rocks one of my all-time favorite costumes.
So...tough choice here. For some reason, I think I'll go with the Thing. I think I'd be tickled to have a George Perez drawn Thing sketch.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2021 13:22:04 GMT -5
Matt Baker doing a sketch of P'Gell from the Spirit (just beating out him doing the Dragon Lady from Terry and the Pirates...).
-M
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Post by dbutler69 on May 24, 2021 16:23:36 GMT -5
Though George Perez is my favorite artist, so I stuck with that, I was awfully tempted to go for a Neal Adams Batman!
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Post by kirby101 on May 24, 2021 16:41:43 GMT -5
Kirby drawing a big multi-character FF page.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 24, 2021 16:43:01 GMT -5
Don Newton. The Crimson Avenger in his original outfit.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2021 17:47:19 GMT -5
Though George Perez is my favorite artist, so I stuck with that, I was awfully tempted to go for a Neal Adams Batman! I was tempted to go with Darwyn Cooke, but I just couldn't decide which character to choose, so I went with Baker. -M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 24, 2021 17:57:35 GMT -5
Though George Perez is my favorite artist, so I stuck with that, I was awfully tempted to go for a Neal Adams Batman! I was tempted to go with Darwyn Cooke, but I just couldn't decide which character to choose, so I went with Baker. -M Ooooo...I'd kill for a Darwyn Cooke Slam Bradley.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 24, 2021 18:18:02 GMT -5
Dick Sprang drawing Phantom Lady
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Post by codystarbuck on May 25, 2021 1:14:15 GMT -5
Well, I already got Mike Grell to do Robin Hood; so.......
if I can pick a newspaper artist, then Alex Raymond doing Superman.
If not, Don Newton doing the Marvel Family would be pretty high up there.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 25, 2021 1:19:26 GMT -5
Joe Maneely drawing Daredevil or Dane Whitman
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Post by shaxper on May 25, 2021 2:31:55 GMT -5
I already had Neal Adams do both The Spectre and The Joker for me, so maybe Mike Mignola doing Batman and Robin, or Kirby doing Galactus, or Ditko doing pretty much anything Dr. Strange-related.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 25, 2021 5:02:21 GMT -5
Well, I already got Mike Grell to do Robin Hood; so....... if I can pick a newspaper artist, then Alex Raymond doing Superman. If not, Don Newton doing the Marvel Family would be pretty high up there. I hereby judge that newspaper artists are permissible, so you can have you Alex Raymond Superman.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 25, 2021 5:02:52 GMT -5
Dick Sprang drawing Phantom Lady Phantom Lady. Hubba hubba! ♥
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Post by dbutler69 on May 25, 2021 5:03:48 GMT -5
Joe Maneely drawing Daredevil or Dane Whitman Joe Maneely Dane Whitman sounds cool.
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Post by Confessor on May 25, 2021 5:46:46 GMT -5
Reading the OP, my first thought was John Romita Sr. doing Gwen Stacy, but since he's still with us that seems like a waste. Picking a dead artist is hard because most of my favourite artists are pushing up daisies. But I think I'd go with Al Williamson doing Darth Vader.
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