Who is your favorite Silver Age Artist?

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I know that is really impossible to mess with all of the characters that someone like Jack Kirby created, but I have to say that I have a greater appreciation of his artwork now than when I was a kid.

The Silver Age artist who's pencils I liked the most, as I think his style stayed contemporary even into the 80s was Gil Kane. (Keep in mind, I'm not even really counting guys like Jim Steranko or Neal Adams, even though they started in the latter part of the Silver Age, I would consider their styles a break from what had been done in DC/Marvel mainstream comics to that time.)

I got reminded of how much I liked Gil Kane seeing a trade reprint of the Sword of the Atom mini-series from the 80s. I think Kane's style was really influential on Adams and big time on some of the 70s guys like Howard Chaykin and John Byrne.

― earlnash, Sunday, 16 March 2008 00:59 (seventeen years ago)

What a question. After giving it a walk around the house and another walk around the house, I'm going to say John Severin. There are a lot more obvious choices, but Severin's work always makes me happy. It's like a Harry Dean Stanton movie, never fails to satisfy. (Best examples are in Creepy and Eerie, probl.)

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 16 March 2008 01:20 (seventeen years ago)

Some of my early comic reading was Cracked magazine, which featured bunches of John Severin artwork. His artwork was always pretty cool. I seem to remember Severin doing a bunch of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos and quite a bit of work on Marvel's war comics. I used to have a bunch of those, as they were total quarter bin comics back then.

I should also mention John Buscema, he is another Silver Age artist whose style never really went out of style. The guy was still a pretty big name artist even in the 80s. I've been reading the first of the reprints of Savage Sword of Conan and Buscema's stuff inked by Alfredo Alcala is really fantastic. Alcala would put so much detail into his inks that it really made the black and white artwork look kind of 3D. I probably like John Buscema's pretty close to Gil Kane, as I have read so much of his stuff over the years.

I would like to read some of those Creepy and Eerie books for all of the good artists that worked on those books and those were things I never got exposed to much as a kid. I did have quite a few issues of Heavy Metal and Epic Illustrated. I do remember having a couple of issues of 1984 and The Rook.

From what I understand, Dark Horse is going to be putting out some reprints of the Eerie and Creepy in a similar format to the Savage Sword of Conan books they are doing now. I know I am game to check those out. This first book of Savage Sword of Conan is pretty fun.

― earlnash, Sunday, 16 March 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)

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