D when you're 14, C when you grow up

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In other words, which artists are the opposite of Todd McFarlane? Most of the scetchier crazier 2000 AD artists, such as O'Neill, Gibson and McMahon, fit in to this category for me - I preffered the classic clean lines of a Bolland or a Talbot when I was a youth, but now I'm all about the scetchy craziness.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I think both Tintin and Asterix are good examples of this - at 14 you feel they're aimed at kids younger than you, at 34 they're some of the best things ever.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Frank Quitely is King of this thread.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

On the writer side, definitely Steve Gerber - tell then-me that now-me would heart Howard the Duck, and then-me would roffle for a week..

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

This is where a animated GIF of me rolling my eyes would go, if I had one.

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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Most of the Silver Age. ALL of the 70s.

(OK not all of their became C, but at 14 - NO WAY. For me, comics started with John Byrne joining X-Men and REALLY started with Alan Moore on Swamp Thing. The only partial exception was Lee/Ditko Spider-Man, and even then I thought it was pretty crap and corny and would only buy Marvel Tales if there was nothing else good in the shop.)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Several canonical newspaper strips for me — I didn't care for Peanuts at 14, now I get the misery and longing behind the strip. Also, Krazy Kat, which was sort of impressive but mainly confusing to me then.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yes yes yes to the Silver Age thing - if Kirby wasn't inked by Sinnott, I was non-plussed. Same w/ non-Romita Spidey.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I only properly 'got' Kirby relatively recently. Likewise with Ditko - I can't believe I used to prefer Romita.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, I guess I have a few years on almost everybody here except Martin, so Silver Age and esp. 70s comics were C then, C now. (C+, with the added dash of nostalgia.)

In my mind, when Jim Shooter became editor-in-chief at Marvel was The Day The Music Died.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

By these standards, I'm still 14!

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

You're not?

;)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

To me, it's Corto Maltese. I first tried to read it when I was maybe 11 or 12, and simply did not get it. The story didn't seem to go nowhere and the art looked sketchy and rushed. Then, at seventeen I gave it another chance, and was hooked for life.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Me:
http://www.newspress.com/AVP_santabarbara/images/sp_avpmotion4_052205.jpg

Dave:
http://www.newspress.com/AVP_santabarbara/images/sp_avpmotion3_052205.jpg

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, definitely 60s/70s Marvel, esp. Gerber. I just found my half-read old copy of the "what do you do the day after you save the universe" issue of H the D, which is dead exciting.
I heart heart Xaime Hernandez's artwork, but I've never managed to get through a whole Love and Rockets book without getting bored. I find it a bit vacuous. I'll try again, though.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Bill Sienkiewicz?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Sienkiewicz was THE TITS when I was 14! Though this was yer Stray Toasters and Shadowplays and Elektra Assassins, not the perspective of someone who'd been reading New Mutants for years and then been bowled a googly.

He's still kinda the tits now, but not as much - much of this down to his infrequency of cartooning though. His Batman: B&W story was as good as ever (and as mining themes of paternal abandonment as ever!). Though that might be getting on for ten years old by now? His Sandman story was a bit of a mess, but that's been illuminated greatly by Dave Sim's interview with Gaiman last month.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Sienkiewicz was doing his big post-New Mutants things when I was 12/13 and I LOVED it, it was incredibly exciting.

Didn't he just do a cpl of Black Widow minis kit? I didn't see them though.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

Alex Toth. In the early seventies he drew a Batman story ("Death Flies the Haunted Sky" in Detective Comics #442), and I just hated it, thought it was one of the worst things I'd ever seen. Nowadays, I'm a big Toth fan, and can see the merits of that story, even though I think it was far from being his best art.

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Didn't he just do a cpl of Black Widow minis kit? I didn't see them though.

Like the sad Billy The Sink fanboy I am (signed, ultra-limited Stray Toasters hardcover ahoy), I've been buying these just for the art. The first one was OK, but sort of lost its way, the second only started last week and isn't very good. Art is lovely though.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Didn't BS jump into New Mutants circa issue #11 or something similar?

I really, really liked the look of New Mutants at the time but I was sure I was the only one (before encountering the Internet, anyway).

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/baker_julius_s/baker_js_tigertim.gif

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Anything with romance in it!

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

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