Pacra posted:

Followed by two more Liefeld works that don't look like any Cap I know.

GorfZaplen posted:

I learned about Jim Woodring just today and his stuff is strange and disturbing in a perfect way for me.

e: last one timg'd because it is sort of large

Metal Loaf posted:

I'm not going to post Liefeld, but I do have a question about him. His first work in comics was on Hawk and Dove for DC about twenty-five years ago. I know that Karl Kesel ended up drawing the hands on feet on the characters, but was it a case that he redrew them over Liefeld's pencils, or did Liefeld seriously submit the art without hands or feet and Kesel had to complete them for him (because I've heard that as well)?

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On Hawk and Dove, as Rob Liefeld was getting later on his deadlines, he increasingly began to send in his characters without their hands and their feet, with inker Karl Kesel being forced to draw them in for Liefeld.

Teenage Fansub posted:

Dynamite had a whole Kirbyverse thing going a few years ago. I know nothing about the quality other than the crazy Alex Ross covers.


One of my favorite Kirby things is this painted/collaged concept art for Metron in the back of the first Fourth World omnibus.

I had to take a webcam photo since it apparently doesn't exist on the internet. Could anyone help find a clean scan?

Drifter posted:

Liefeld's Godessey had the hardest Jesus.




KrakaBOOM motherfucker.

Rhyno posted:

Even back then Jae Lee was critically acclaimed. People ate that poo poo up.

I Before E posted:

Ramirez?

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Early in his career, Pollina worked for Friendly Comics, an adult comics publisher owned by pornographer and ferret advocate Eric Shefferman. While at Friendly, Pollina provided pencils for the popular Sex Trek series, an adult parody of Star Trek featuring characters named "Jism T. Cock" and "Jean-Luc Prickhard."

Pollina began to pencil X-Force in 1995 with #44 and continued as regular penciller until #81 in 1998. In 1996 he drew the four-issue limited series Rise of Apocalypse, again for Marvel.

fatherboxx posted:

Authors tend to lose interest in their creations during the long hiatuses.
Of course for Stokoe it is mostly a financial matter, Orc Stain sold absolutely horrible in single issues. But i am baffled at how much he draws and just buries under the table, like the Poison Thrower one-shot.

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Orc stain is his first loong thing and I think he needed a lap around comics before he came back to it. and yeah, he’s back on it now...

[T]here’s a contract you get into with readers when you start a series— I’m well aware myself with Warheads. The only difference between how I did Warheads and how Stokoe did Orcstain— is I sold the issues as a mini series because I knew It would be awhile until I had more done. I was talking to James about doing the same for new OS.

Anyway, If I have a point here it’s that Orc stain will be done and it’s amazing and more than worth the wait.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

I thought at first this was definitely Liefeld until I saw the credits.. I did a quick Google image search for Steve Tappin, as I'd never heard of him, and I found, uh, this. Apparently from 2000AD.



Is this good? Is this bad? Is it the same Steve Tappin seen above? I... I don't know.

fatherboxx posted:

Pat Mills knows how to write for crazy artists:

blarzgh posted:

The Spanish inquisitor?

Hulk Smash! posted:

Care or not about the characters, you're a professional, put some effort into your trade I say.

BiggerBoat posted:

What's wrong with that? Granted, it's not as good as the other ones but it hardly looks like poo poo.

Edge & Christian posted:

I had forgotten just how ridiculous Kelley Jones Bane was. I half expect it was deliberately mocking the character. Jones always had a somewhat cartoonish, exaggerated style but his Bane is on another level.

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The covers I did were given to me by a strange twist of fate. DC called and asked if I had Sam Kieth’s phone number, which was odd, because Sam is the one who brought me to DC. They wanted him to do the covers for Batman and Detective. I told them that he was an inspired choice. Before too long Sam called me and said he just wasn’t enjoying doing it, and would I pitch in and help him. In a month or so he quit outright telling me he was just freezing up too much. He was way behind, and DC then asked if I would knock out 4 or 5 of them to catch up, and then they would find a permanent cover artist. The public reaction to my stuff was strong, and that I am fast, made them decide to stick with me. I never knew what the stories were about when I drew the covers, just who was in them, as the books were running late. It worked out just great for me, as I was allowed to just draw. Most came out pretty good.

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I took art and a premed courses on anatomy so I could draw everything right. When I got into comics I looked at my printed work, and though technically good, it was without soul. So, when I started trying to draw what I felt, my editors ‘fixed’ my drawing by having the inkers correct what they felt was wrong. When I came to DC, they didn’t mind my style, and actually allowed me to ink my own stuff starting with Deadman. Sam Kieth and I knew each other then, and both found that we were trying to be perfect, like Dave Stevens, rather than uneven and rough like Graham Engels. Over a pizza we both told each other the same desire to be ourselves, and decided to just do it… waiting to be fired.

HogX posted:

I thought I'd read a she-hulk comic and...uh.



She-hulk, what happened to you? That gamma radiation really did a number on you. Jesus.

Conrad_Birdie posted:

Yikes.....I'm trying to think of anything positive to say about that. And nothing is coming to mind.

redbackground posted:

Who's the astronaut baby?

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

It appears, from context, that that page is from Fantastic Four Unlimited #3, September, 1993.

The credited penciler is - I poo poo you not - Herb Trimpe.

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I’ve been asked that question before, with some fans going so far as to feel sorry for the way Marvel made me change my style. Unfortunately, these were misdirected sympathies.

Truth was, it was a lark–but a lark with a purpose, all devised by myself. No one at Marvel suggested I change the way I draw or ink. I looked at the new guys’ stuff, and thought, hey, this is great. Very exciting. You can always learn from somebody else, no matter how long you’ve been doing a thing.

I did, however, think the style might lead to new work at a time when Marvel was already in trouble, and it did. FF Unlimited was my last series at Marvel, and contrary to what a lot of fans think, I think it was the best work I’d done–and, I had a whole lot of fun doing it. Very expressive. I think the newer influences in comic book art brought out a better me. Like I said, most of the fans of the earlier stuff would not agree. On one occasion, I inked a whole story with a brush, which is what I was raised on, and the editor objected asking me not to do that anymore. But in general, no one pressured me into a change.

BiggerBoat posted:

I was reading some funny articles about Liefeld and wondered if he's ever worked exclusively as an inker? I could almost see it working if a good penciller laid down decent anatomy, perspective, coherent story telling and backgrounds first.

I know it would be cross hatched to hell and back but I think it's possible that Rob's "energy" might actually translate OK with a solid drawer.

NorgLyle posted:

I'm not sure if I'd be curious or horrified to see what modern inkers and colors would do to Kirby's pencils.

Archyduke posted:

I don't know, the faces look kind of Paul Pope-esque to me.

Edge & Christian posted:

sticksy posted:

This is pretty funny if you imagine this in Hulk’s voice/speaking style

Jedit posted:

He doesn't really need it. Hulk gets pissed off when he finds something he can't lift or smash, so he tends to escalate.

Infinitum posted:

Whatever happened to Strongguy? The mutant who the more he used his powers the stronger he got, but the dumber he got?

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Folks, gimme your coolest Silver Surfer art

Chinston Wurchill posted:

From Deadpool Black, White, & Blood #1:



James Stokoe drawing a man/bear hybrid driving a giant tank? Yes please.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

anyone know where this is from?

Darthemed posted:

The Punisher #95 (1994)
Pencils/Inks: Frank Teran
Colors: Michael Golden