Musical Analogues

Neil Gaiman = Tori Amos and Magnetic Fields, among others.

Who for Peter Milligan? Satire & humor = Frank Zappa (?).

Taking the piss or not? U DECIDE!

Comics is still awaiting its hip-hop. Sadly.

I've always thought Philip Bond's art is hip-hop as fuck, in a graf-writer sense.

Where does manga fit into this?

Well, hell, if we're doing comics as music genres, then that changes a few things.

JLA as comics techno isn't a bad sum-up, really. But I find it more interesting than most techno. I'd still argue that as a personality, Grant Morrison is more comics glam than anything. If Bowie hadn't managed to suck so heartily in the last twenty years, that one would work, whereas Grant's work is steady in terms of quality.

Steranko = Roxy Music. Was there ever a humble "nonelectric" phase where he's concerned?

Dave Gibbons = The Who. Okay, not really, but _The Originals_ will make it seem that way.

Steve Gerber = Randy Newman

Wouldn't Jamie Hewlett be a good candidate for comics hip-hop?

John Byrne = Elvis Costello. Discuss.

Hip-hop is manga of course, and as I said on the Wedge that makes Image rap-metal (entirely aptly!)

Yeah Grant isn't 'faceless' at all, and there are Morrissey elements in him too (OMG is he MOBY?????????)

Image used to be Rap-Metal, now it's MP3.com (or at least, until that got dismantled.)

Oh yes, Mark Millar = Mick Jagger. Martin probably differs, since he actually knows the man, but based on his work and online persona, I'm sticking to my guns.

Neil Gaiman = Kate Bush

Neil Gaiman = Enya.

Warren Ellis = Autechre(cool hipsterism with lumps of technogeekery)
Brian Michael Bendis = Talking Heads (Too clever for his own good)
Cerebus = Current 93 (You know you love it really but can't explain why. Eclectic. Kind of folky. About lost love at times. More than a hint of menace. Sometimes unintentionally funny.)

I refer you to your own "more than one idea" comment.

I think Neil Gaiman has more than one idea (viz that story about some guy who can't stop having them) but has faulty technology separating the good ones from the bad ones. Because how bad can they be, they're his? (And also he values the ideas and the precision of execution over whether the direction of execution is a good idea)

so NG = Momus.

Frank Miller = Metallica!

Rose to prominence in the '80s, when they also released their most vital work, became overground celebs in the '90s despite diminishing returns and entrenched irrelevance during the '00s.

Daredevil nos. 168-191 (1981-3) = Kill 'em All (1983)
Early-'80s debut that showcased their burgeoning skills and techniques ("Four Hoursemen," Daredevil no. 191), though the production values were weak (garage album production; four-color garishness and archly pungent dialogue).

Ronin (1982-3) = Ride the Lightning (1983)
Creative leaps forward, style- and technique-wise.

DKR (1986) = Master of PUppets
Pinnacles of their careers, moves their respective genres away from established modalities (hair metal; camp) and recenters the genres around grim and gritty. Tuomas takes offense to the power politics articulated therein.

Batman: Year One (1987) = The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited (1987)
Short followup to consensus masterpiece regarded as no less integral, reimagining pre-existing material.

Elektra: Assasin (1986-7) = ...And Justice for All (1988)
Ornate, technically proficient, extremely indulgent.

Sin City (1991) = Black Album (1991)
Similar color schemes, craft pared down to appeal to wider audiences. For better of for worse, the shark-jumping point.

Sin City sequels = Load and Reload
Derivative, uninspired, image-changing. (See also: Martha Washington.)

DKSA = Garage, Inc.
Unnecessary sequel that reinterpreted and cashed in on earlier work.

ASSBATS = St. Anger

Holy Terror = Napster
Point in which they totally lost all relevance forever.

Corrollary: Klaus Janson = Flemming Rasmussen

MICHAEL KUPPERMAN = WEEN

ANOTHER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD:

They're both quite keen on sigils and masturbation (though I think it's unlikely anyone gratified themselves for the purpose of helping Prince's album sales).

Britishes stuff = Prince (obscure but promising?)

Animal Man = 1999 (brilliant and sort of out of nowhere?)

JLA = Purple Rain (ambitious and successful, also dated production values)

Invisibles = Sign o' the Times (even more ambitious, darker, also successful, both feature gender play and investigate the connection between the spiritual and the sexxy)

New Adventures of Hitler = Black Album ("controversial", currently not in official release)

????? = Love Symbol Album

Seven Soldiers = Emancipation (sprawling and unconventionally formatted, but worthwhile?)

ASS/Batmorrison = Musicology/3121 (mainstream comeback, pastiching himself and his formative influences more directly than ever before)

'cuz they both wanted to be E. Bloom.

Hmm, I thought Sin City was a distillation of Miller's craft and themes, not any sort of appeal for bigger audiences. It certainly wasn't as popular as his previous work with Batman and Daredevil, at least not until the film.

I wouldn't call DKSA "unnecessary", it was great fun, and proved Miller can still do good comics when he doesn't take himself too seriously. What was an unnecessary cash-in was the "Daredevil Year One" thing he did with John Romita Jr.

Mike Mignola = Lisa Gerrard
Surveys world folk, tinged with Gothic; retreated from main project to work in movies.

Wally Wood = Johnny Cash,
Hirokai Samura = Mad Capsule Markets,
Simon Bisley = Slayer,
JRJR = Glen Medeiros x Henry Rollins,

King Kirby = Elvis (the King)

Brian Bolland=The Jam
(Very slick and proffessional with subversive undertones)

Dave Sim=Mike Patton
(Off the wall, technically very gifted, has spent much of the last ten years with head up own arse with occasional moments of brilliance)

I can't go for Kirby as Elvis. Elvis was an interpreter, and Kirby was a pure creative spark that other people scrambled to incorporate, if not copy. I like the Kirby/James Brown idea.

Steve Englehart = Burt Bacharach
(talented, prolific, fans' and critics' darling, foundered for many years after coming down from peak; still working, but never really regained the old spark; needs strong collaborators)

Who is Queen?