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vishard chandool Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 October 2011 Location: Trinidad and Tobago Posts: 235
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 8:14am | IP Logged | 1
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John Romita Jr. Bruce Timm (The public has gotten accustomed to his style now because of the Timmverse, but his stuff was definitely different when it came out. It took me a while to get used to his Batman)
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Joe Zhang Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 12857
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 8:31am | IP Logged | 2
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JB fits the bill "unconventional". I cannot think of any other acclaimed artist who put down the pencil / brush to work mostly in 3D models and Photoshop.
Edited by Joe Zhang on 25 April 2018 at 8:31am
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Peter Hicks Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 April 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1879
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 9:09am | IP Logged | 3
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Paul Pope's figures look gangly and ill. It's a look that works for some characters, and others not.
Jeff Lemire's art has unique charms. My wife read Essex County, enjoyed it, but said I could draw better than that.
I would much rather have a world with artists with wildly different styles than have everybody draw in the same "house" style.
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Charles Valderrama Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4716
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 11:47am | IP Logged | 4
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Two names spring to mind -
Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane. "Ugly" style... yet somehow it works for some people!
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Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 February 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 4410
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | 5
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Basil Wolverton! He did do some super adventurer and space type comics early on which I love.
From the old Marvel Comics (and Atlas) there was Matt Foxx and Joe Maneely who were not standard superhero artists. Foxx was along the lines of Wolverton. Maneely was along the lines of the later Charlton artist Pat Boyette (Peacemaker).Sam Glanzman did an interesting Hercules at Charlton. Not pretty but nicely gritty. :^)
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Adam Schulman Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | 6
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Restricting ourselves to superhero artists -- whatever happened to Mark Badger?
As they might say in the UK, Bill Sienkiewicz is a gob-smacking genius.
As is Dave McKean, but his superhero work is very sparse and he's best known for titles like SANDMAN and CAGES. (CAGES is superb, BTW.)
Frank Quitely is a great artist who should never draw superhero comics. He's just not appropriate for the genre.
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Michael Casselman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 January 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1210
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | 7
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I found McFarlane's early 'Infinity Inc' run unconventional.
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Matthew Wilkie Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 09 March 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1139
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | 8
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Many of the names listed might be unconventional but I'm not sure I'd call them all ugly. Dave McKean, for example and in my opinion, doesn't fit this bill.
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Stephen Churay Byrne Robotics Member
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Ted McKeever. His work is so abstract that half the time I hate it, half the time I think he's brilliant.
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Jim Muir Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 June 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1370
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | 10
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Ted McKeever... you beat me to it!
And for British viewers: Kevin O Neill of 2000ad fame. (I’m sure I read somewhere his work was banned in the US on some comicbook for being too grotesque!)
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Mark Waldman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1272
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Posted: 25 April 2018 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | 11
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Many have been said already, but here are mine...
At first thought, Sienkiewicz comes to mind but then as the other names came out, I'd consider unconventionally drawn, perhaps a bit "ugly" at first glance, but then once you consider the work and are more refined, you appreciate. So I'd also add:
Ditko Kirby Infantino Cardy
to my list.
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Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
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I loved Kurt Schaffenberger's work which, I feel, some people thought was too cartoonish.
Jim Aparo also took me a little time to get used to... but I wouldn't pass it by now for love or money.
Shucks, even Mr. Byrne's art was a little more stylized than a lot of art I was enjoying at DC in his X-Men days.
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