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John Byrne
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I stood on the periphery of a conversation in the Bullpen, way, way back when I barely had a career in comics. John Verpoorten was talking to a few other folk about Herb Trimpe's work, and he made the observation that no matter how outlandish the machines and technology were in the books Herb was assigned to draw, he somehow made them "feel real." You might know, empirically, that they could not really work, but in the moment, in context, you believed.High praise, and something that informed my own approach to such things ever after.
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Marcio Ferreira
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NOt sure how many of you remember that, but Herb Trimpe worked with BWS (Barry Windsor Smith) in the late 80's when BWS was coming back to comics after years working on illustrations. For me that was a big statement of the comic book artist Herb Trimpe was. Sad that his style ended up being rejected by publishers.
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Marcio Ferreira
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BWS & Herb Trimpe
Edited by Marcio Ferreira on 16 April 2015 at 8:43am
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Peter Martin
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I do remember that and I thought Herb worked well with BWS. Not late 80s though -- it was slap bang in the middle of the 80s.
Edited by Peter Martin on 16 April 2015 at 11:10am
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Phil Kreisel
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I'm not a big fan of the dumb Hulk, but the one strip I adored (though it didn't go anywhere, really was this one, pencilled and inked by Herb. 
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Ted Pugliese
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You can't wonder who's next. Everyone is next, it's
the order that's unknown. Best to not think about such
things and celebrate the person who just passed.
"It's the order that's unknown."
Maybe that's why I find myself wondering who's next.
Nobody gets out alive, so it's only "when" that's left
to ponder.
I do it with family & pets too. Hoping I got at least
75 good years in me. The rest is gravy.
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Marc Cheek
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I've often wondered about the change in Herb's artwork when he was penciling Fantastic Four Unlimited. I guess this was the early 90s around the time that Rob Liefeld was a "Name". Herb's figures seemed resemble Liefeld's figures a lot - small heads included. I've wondered whether that was a conscious attempt by Herb mimic that style. It didn't work for Liefeld and it didn't work for Herb either... I don't recall seeing any work by Herb since then, so maybe it was just a passing phase...
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John Byrne
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I've wondered whether that was a conscious attempt by Herb mimic that style. •• I realize most folk don't understand the Artistic Process, but surely you cannot be suggesting Herb made such a radical -- I might even say grotesque -- change to the way he drew without it being deliberate?
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Marc Cheek
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Though I'm no artist, I suppose I realized it was a deliberate change of style... I guess more than anything I was wondering why he would try to emulate Liefeld... And I wouldn't argue with the adjective grotesque.
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Marc Cheek
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I did want to add that I didn't mean this to become about what I didn't like about Herb Trimpe's art. I'm too much of a fan of his work on the Hulk for that. I grew up with the Hulk reprints in Marvel Super Heroes.
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Herb said in interviews that it was his decision to draw in the Liefeld/Image style for his Fantastic Four Unlimited assignment, and his editor encouraged him to run with it. It went down as a failed experiment, but since work had been drying up at Marvel anyway, it wasn't a huge gamble on his part. Ultimately, that ended up being maybe 100 pages of output out of the thousands and thousands he drew during his career.
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