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Post by Graphic Autist on May 28, 2021 12:35:31 GMT -5
Mark Gruenwald didn't make the list? That's who I'd vote for.
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Post by String on May 28, 2021 12:37:47 GMT -5
All are certainly missed but of the choices listed, I chose Don Newton, Dave Stevens, and 'Ringo.
Their art, diverse in style yet distinctive by nature, speak the most to me.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 14:56:32 GMT -5
while he's no where near the level of popularity/notoriety of those on your list? I would have loved to see what Stephen Hughes would have gone on to do. his art is what got me buying Evil Ernie (and Lady Death) in the 1st place, but I think he would have really gone on to be a draw for one of the bigger companies, had he not died so young.
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Post by chadwilliam on May 28, 2021 14:56:50 GMT -5
Heck, I'd have loved for Bill Finger to live up to the 1990s JUST so he could have finally gotten the acknowledgement he deserved. This.
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Post by chadwilliam on May 28, 2021 14:59:58 GMT -5
This is an exceptionally morbid poll. hm. Wondering if a Mod can take down my "They lived long, whose lives should have been cut short" thread. Really don't know what I was thinking. Apologies.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 28, 2021 16:19:14 GMT -5
Some of the comments that have been posted made me think that maybe I logged in to twitter by mistake.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 28, 2021 16:42:59 GMT -5
I just posted the names that I thought of. Of course there are many more names that can be added to the list and I Left out writers. One of my choices was Dave Stevens. He really had a special talent. He must have started late in doing work as he died at age 53. also chose Gene Day and Wally Wood. I know that Wood was sick but I wish he hadn't been.
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Post by berkley on May 28, 2021 16:53:24 GMT -5
I just posted the names that I thought of. Of course there are many more names that can be added to the list and I Left out writers. One of my choices was Dave Stevens. He really had a special talent. He must have started late in doing work as he died at age 53. also chose Gene Day and Wally Wood. I know that Wood was sick but I wish he hadn't been.
Those were my three as well, though of course we wish they'd all lived longer. I'm arbitrarily assuming it also implies living in good health, so Wood could have kept working.
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Post by tarkintino on May 28, 2021 17:59:41 GMT -5
Cooke was gifted with immense talent and a sense of what certain comic characters needed to be. There's so much more his work and unique passion could have produced, and it was such a stark contrast to the conveyor belt of monthly dreck.
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Post by Confessor on May 28, 2021 19:33:20 GMT -5
I picked Gene Day, Mike Wieringo, and Darwyn Cooke. All were doing fantastic work and clearly had bright futures ahead of them. I love Wally Wood's work, but he was in a bad way in the time leading up to his death. I'm not sure how much more of note we'd have gotten out of him had he not killed himself.
Honourable mention to poor old Bill Mantlo. Because actually, dying ain't the worst thing that can happen to you.
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Post by chadwilliam on May 28, 2021 20:49:18 GMT -5
Some of the comments that have been posted made me think that maybe I logged in to twitter by mistake. Hope my joke didn't come across as passive-aggressively antagonistic - as someone who doesn't go a day without playing this exact thread over in his head (albeit generally for musicians and actors) I certainly don't think it's morbid to wish that someone who died young got to live to a ripe, old age. I was only half paying attention at the time that Marvel introduced Sentry, but I recall that part of the publicity involved claiming that the hero was an unused character Stan Lee had come up with back in the 1960s. Of course, that turned out to not be the case, but I'm sure that the claim that Marvel had a Superman type hero in the works during their heyday certainly had people wondering at what might have been. A superhero Marvel would have presumably centered their line around - a sort of Superhero's Superhero. I can't help but think how Marvel did, in reality, have such a character in the form of Joe Mannelly. I can't be certain that the role he would have played at Marvel in the 1960's hasn't been exaggerated, but he certainly sounds like someone the universe created only to take off the table at the last second in a sort of "Let's see what direction things go in without this piece around..." moment. Would have also loved to have seen what Jack Cole would have come up with during the swinging 60's - just give him a title and say "Do what you want". Marshall Rogers had danced around Batman before returning the character for a pair of multipart stories (One in Legends of the Dark Knight and the other for Dark Detective - which inspired much of the second Christian Bale Batman movie). He had already completed the first issue of the follow-up to the latter when he died making me wonder just what we missed out on.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 28, 2021 21:27:25 GMT -5
I picked Gene Day, Mike Wieringo, and Darwyn Cooke. All were doing fantastic work and clearly had bright futures ahead of them. I love Wally Wood's work, but he was in a bad way in the time leading up to his death. I'm not sure how much more of note we'd have gotten out of him had he not killed himself. Honourable mention to poor old Bill Mantlo. Because actually, dying ain't the worst thing that can happen to you. I was thinking about Mantlo, too, though wasn't he out of comics completely, before he was hit, while rollerblading? I thought he was practicing law, exclusively, by that point. Perhaps he might have been enticed back for a few projects, had circumstances been different. Neil Pozner is one that hasn't been discussed. Pozner did a lot to revive Aquaman, setting the character up for more high profile books down the road. He was one of the real creative forces in DC's editorial realm and did much to use DC characters for public service things, like AIDS awareness. As an art director, he was top notch and he helped improve the look of DC's comics. He was only 38/39 when he passed away, from complications related to AIDS.
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Post by tartanphantom on May 28, 2021 21:29:55 GMT -5
This is somewhat akin to choosing favorites among your children... they're all important, special and loved in their own way, and the only real choice is "ALL". However, being limited to three, I chose Matt Baker, Dave Stevens and Jack Cole. I've always gravitated toward Baker and Stevens, and as much as I love Cole's golden-age Plastic Man work, I really began to appreciate him even more after seeing his work on The Spirit during Eisner's wartime absence from the strip.
That certainly isn't meant to take away from the artistic accomplishments of the others-- particularly Newton and Cooke. In fact, my third choice was a coin toss between Cole and Cooke.
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Post by Confessor on May 29, 2021 3:49:09 GMT -5
I was thinking about Mantlo, too, though wasn't he out of comics completely, before he was hit, while rollerblading? I thought he was practicing law, exclusively, by that point. Perhaps he might have been enticed back for a few projects, had circumstances been different. I didn't know that actually, but a quick look at the list of his work on Wikipedia seems to indicate that you're right (there's nothing beyond 1989). But yeah, there's nothing to say that he wouldn't have come back to writing comics.
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Post by Dizzy D on May 29, 2021 4:57:00 GMT -5
I picked several from the poll, but want to mention some not mentioned yet: René Goscinny accomplished a lot within his life and is one of the greats within European comics, but at age 51 he died far too young.
Minck Oosterveer is probably not that well known, but he did work both in Europe and the US. He worked with Mark Waid in several titles for Boom and he was one of the artists picked to continue Storm after the death of Don Lawrence. He also died far too young at age 50.
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