Lifetime Achievement Award

I thought about including Stan Lee, and I thought about including Moebius.

Shit, I should have included Crumb.

Segar
Herge
Briggs
Bretecher
Barry
Schulz
Bell
Menu
Spiegelman
Mouly

Caniff!

But I'll go with Kubert today as his Hawkman stuff is sublime.

Well I voted Kirby of course, but here's another ten who deserve it more than Stan Lee

Harvey Kurtzman
Hugo Pratt
John Stanley
Gilbert Shelton
Gary Panter
Edgar P Jacobs
Don Martin
Alan Moore
Rene Goscinny
Steve Gerber

Damm, Bernie Krigstein. Damm, Wally Wood.

No strippers? My first thoughts were Feiffer and Schulz

Kirby.

You forgot Herriman. Or McKay.

When I started the thread I was thinking of people who worked at a really high level consistently for 40+ years...I'd add Schulz and Crumb if I had a chance, but I'd have to look up info about the others.

I'd still say Feiffer, between the Voice and Playboy and children's books.

Yeah, he's not usually my cup of tea, but he'd belong in the poll.

The Phantom Tollbooth was massive for me as a kid. Later, when I went back and looked at it - HOLY SMOKES!

I've actually really gotten into Tezuka in the last couple of years. That dude had a massive output, and a lot of it was actually great. He's totally comparable to Kirby. (Though yea, I guess he's an obvious choice.)

Herge.

Also, maybe Sim? Sure, he's a certified loon, but I reckon his formal influence will be huge in the decades to come (not to mention the whole self-publishing thing).

Let's treat this as a nominations thread, and then we can redo the poll with a more complete list in a few days. But should there be some minimums? Like a minimum number of years of work?

Some of e. flash gordon's list, I'm not familiar with. Who are Briggs, Bretecher, Bell and Menu? I could look them up, but here's your chance to rep for them. By Barry, do you mean Lynda?

Poll options: radio buttons (one vote) or top-5, #1 gets 5 pts etc.?

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My all time greats list: Tezuka, Herge, Keith Giffen, Franquin, Raymond Briggs, Goscinny, Aragones

Raymond Briggs

Good call, Ace In The Hole!

Thanks, R!

Who are Briggs, Bretecher, Bell and Menu?

Briggs is an illustrator of childrens books who secretly started doing them as comics (wot he wrote himself) thirty-odd years ago and became a) probably one of the widest-read cartoonists in teh Englands and b) a cheenius I tink. when a soft drink commercial can beatjack your style a quarter-century after a one-off telly adaptation of your work for its recognition value, you've pulled something off. His "grown-up" "graphic novel" biography of his parents got critical blowjobs simply because it was marketed to adults, but he was above that level years before, Gentleman Jim broke my head at age 7 or so.

Claire Bretecher got herself before more eyes than Kubert's ever dreamt of in the 70s and 80s, splashing feminist frustrations across womens magazines and every bookshop ever c. 1984, then every second-hand bookshop ever c. 1994.

Steve Bell's a newspaper cartoonist. Falklands, penguins, the best (only worthwhile) sustained Bush-as-a-monkey gags ever - that dude.

JC Menu's not so much as a cartoonist*, but bossdom of L'Asso broke indy/alt sensibilities and deviations from standard album format into the second-most important market in the world. Respek knuckles, yeah?

Yeah, Lynda Barry.

*presumably Kubert is on the list not due to his artistic achievements either