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23rd January 2008, 11:42pm
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Originally Posted by MarkMono  I find it hard to differentiate between Sim and Gerhard.
There art complements each others more perfectly than any other team which comes to mind. | Is that not the best sign of a great "team-up"? Like the ultimate team of Miller/Varley...... | 
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23rd January 2008, 11:44pm
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| Re: Favourite Comic Book artist
Ultimate team... for me to poop on.
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23rd January 2008, 11:46pm
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Originally Posted by Posh Ultimate team... for me to poop on. | DK2 aside (all down to frank's bad writing), pick a flaw. | |
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23rd January 2008, 11:47pm
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Come on, the pathetically amateurish computer colouring on DK2 was shit on a page. Quote:
Originally Posted by Damien-Gosh Is that not the best sign of a great "team-up"? Like the ultimate team of Miller/Varley...... | That was my point, yes, though the artistic team of Miller/Janson would be a more accurate analogy.
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23rd January 2008, 11:47pm
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| Re: Favourite Comic Book artist
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Originally Posted by MarkMono the artistic team of Miller/Janson would be a more accurate analogy. | What he said 
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23rd January 2008, 11:49pm
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I respect his write to experiment and grow as an artist, he should respect my right to think he isn't as good when he's doing his own inks.
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23rd January 2008, 11:51pm
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I agree, on DK2 ....... but, without Lynn varley the Dark Knight Returns would have disappeared up it's own arse..... Janson has built a career on the back of "tracing" the ultimate book. watchmen? Pile of piss. | |
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23rd January 2008, 11:53pm
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A) Inking is not tracing B) He coloured Millers Daredevil as well as inking it and C) Janson also drew some of the best comics of the 1980s all on his lonesome.
His run on the Punisher is definitive.
Varleys colours on Ronin are utterly beautiful.
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23rd January 2008, 11:53pm
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Klaus Janson inked 'Watchmen'?!
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30th January 2008, 4:50pm
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No-one mentioned Goseki Kojima yet? | |
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30th January 2008, 5:35pm
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He only did one comic I really loved, I've tried to read Samurai Executioner several times and it just bores me to tears.
He'd probably still be virtually unknown in the west if it wasn't for Frank Millers tireless promotion of Lone Wolf and Cub. I suppose he feels like he owes Kojima for appropriating his entire storytelling style.
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30th January 2008, 10:27pm
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Thought this thread was just for the "artist".... whether the writing is any good is beyond the thread. | |
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30th January 2008, 10:30pm
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Didn't mention the writing, god forbid I'd drag a thread off-topic.
I mean, I like Kazuo Koike's writing, don't get me wrong, but I don't believe I made any mention of it.
On the manga side of things my favourite artist would have to be Akihito Yoshitomi, his Eat Man series looks the bastard son of Akira, Trigun and Ranma 1/2. The Masamune Shirow influence is fairly obvious, as it is in so much other modern manga, but the fantasy elements both bolster and transcend the standard cyberpunk manga. 
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