Baron Bifford posted:

The pencil work was competent, but the character designs are horrific. drat it Grant Morrison, stop designing costumes!

Madkal posted:

To paraphrase Spinal Tap: What's wrong being sexy?

socalled posted:

Jim Lee

The Saddest Robot posted:

I think it mainly has to do with the state of the comic industry when he got started. His art looked drat good compared to a lot of the comics being put out at that time. I think he upped the bar quite a bit in the early 90's, his style was pretty well proportioned, had strong, muscular men and women with boobs and a good sense of composition, negative areas, etc. His artwork was very consistent too which was a pretty big thing, I recall that a lot of the comic books I read had art that was all over the place.

Madrox posted:

Also wanted to add that I agree the Moebius recolors are horrid. If I want to buy English translations of his work, can I get the original, or is only the recolor available?

Friends Are Evil posted:

themalegaze.jpg

Mizuti posted:

Is that "How to Draw" the real deal?

fatherboxx posted:

Baron Bifford posted:

A little more of Dejah Thoris, it seems that on the cover of issue 30, she has lost her nipples.

redbackground posted:

No, this is a weird looking Catwoman:



(don't know who drew that hot mess, but it's from an in-house DC ad)

Shameless posted:

It often goes unnoticed but despite being a much better artist than Liefeld, Mignola also seems to have issues with feet.

Lurdiak posted:

Here's my prediction of what it's going to look like once DC's all-star team of colorists get through with it.

Baron Bifford posted:

I was impressed by this spread from the recent Supergirl #24.

Tracula posted:

It's a while back in the thread but wasn't there a tumblr or something dedicated to making fun of this pose and how impossible it actually it is to sit like this?

Bloodly posted:

Is it wrong to say I'd put this up on a wall given the chance?

mind the walrus posted:

That was especially true during the "SWAMP THING IN DEEP SPACE" arc that was going on during this issue these pages are posted from. There's one issue where Swamp Thing is essentially raped by a weird techno-organic thing in space because they're somewhat biologically compatible to reproduce, and the art looks gorgeously trippy and abstract.

Seriously if you don't like the Alan Moore Swamp Thing run in its entirety you can go straight to hell. Even the weaker issues hold up remarkably well aside from some iffy 80s coloring problems like bright solid color backgrounds. I still hope they never do a recolor though, or at least a very minor recolor to fix issues like said backgrounds and not a total overhaul that turns the bright color palette into muted garbage.

Hellbunny posted:

Not gonna lie, it took me some time before I even got that they had sex.

zoux posted:

I will gladly make this Faustian bargain.

Jedit posted:

The Medusa cover is blatantly lightboxed from a woman being hosed. Manara's not as bad as Land for that, and can actually draw without the lightbox and doesn't plagiarise, but he's still bad.

Hollismason posted:

Badass , What book is this?

LordPants posted:

Little known fact: If it looks like an accident, Batman doesn't consider it murder.

Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

But people often forget Sam Kieth penciled the first few issues of Gaiman's Sandman, and it always looked really sloppy and rushed. Some of that may have been the coloring, but Sandman got a lot better when Mike Dringenberg took over the pencil art, and I'll be the first one to admit Kieth's work on Maxx, Marvel Comics Presents, and even those Batman covers I personally don't like is a lot better than his Sandman art.