Who's your favourite comic artist? Ron Embleton, Frank Frazetta, Eric Eden, Jack Kirby, Ron Turner, Steve Ditko? So many fabulous talents but who is your number one and why?
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13 comments:
Mike Noble-
His Fireball & Zero X strips were my favourits when growing up.
Mike Noble/Ron Turner for the classics.
having been a reader of Manga and 2000ad for years,my two favourite artists would be Masamune Shirow of Appleseed/Ghost in the Shell fame and Mark Harrison of Durham Red and Glimmer Rats
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Hard choice but in order probably -
1. Frank Bellamy
2. Mike Noble
Joint 3rd - Ron and Gerry Embleton
5. John Cooper
6. Gerry Haylock
7. Whoever drew the Whizzers from Oz in Topper!
In vague order;
1.Moebius
2.Druillet
3.Corben
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yes - you cant beat a bit of Corben!
I'd have to go with Mike Noble as well.
In no particular order - I think they're all good.
Ron Turner for Rick Random and the Daleks
Mike Noble for XL5 and Zero X
Frank Hampson for Dan Dare
Frank Bellamy for Thunderbirds
Ron and Gerry Embleton for Stingray and Captain Scarlet.
Keith Watson for Dan Dare.
Jesus Blasco for the Steel Claw
Wotan - Re. Corben...I seem to recall he did some rather fine work in an otherwise prurient magazine my father kept losing under the bed! And if it hadn't been for the other two, that's all we in the UK would have known him for!!
I'll put in a quick forth vote for Don Lawrence...Trigan Empire!!
Michael Golden's legendary run on MICRONAUTS (Marvel 1970's issues 1 through 12)kept me reading comics, buying and playing with toys well past the 'normal' age...um...right up to now.
For me, it has to be Mike Noble.
There is something quite beautiful about Frank Bellamy's Thunderbird. I think its his deep dark shadows and bold colours all drawn and inked in a zen like spareness. I'm surprised they were never used for posters. I's love one now!
Thunderbird? Sounds like his car! I meant Thunderbirds, plural!
My choice of favorite would be a matter of public record, but I didn't get to see any of the greats of British comics art until I was an adult...with one major exception. Ron Embleton's closing credits art for Captain Scarlet always fascinated me. I had no way of knowing he was a comics artist as well, but I knew those images were more than static illustration and captured all the energy and action that I loved in comics. If I could have seen his other work back then, my reaction would have been something along the lines "Duh, of course!"
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