artists who piss away their talent only doing covers - classic or dud

Adam Hughes is the only other truly classic cover-pisser I can think of, though I'd still prefer him drawing comics I will buy than covers that I won't.

I mentioned this somewhere else, but the guy who did the She-Hulk covers was great, but great in the context of covers. His Rockwellian whimsy set a great tone, but didn't lend itself to the dialogue-heavy insides.

Dave Gibbons has done a few JSA covers lately, and some of them have been wastes of his talents, esp. the Mr. Terrifics cover. The Atom/Atom Smasher cover on the current issue is pretty rad though.

I think covers usually go for 3x-5x the price of a regular page of art (on average) (I'm just guessing), so, yeah, that's some scratch.

James Jean's goths illustration was the best thing about the last issue of Spin.

But Dave McKean takes this cake walking backwards and forwards towards the trees for the forest.

For a while, Sale's cover was my favorite one for Q&C.

Back to Bolland - he did some great Judge Dredd stuff, surely on this we can agree. But then the lure of yankee dollar means he sticks to covers.

And Leee, McKean's comics destroy his covers in terms of quality (and he gave up both at around the same time. except for the childrens' books with Gaiman, where he does both...)

Has Tim Bradshaw done much illustration? His covers for the Punisher Max series are really wicked. I get the idea that he has not done much, as I couldn't find much about him on the net.

Art Adams is another guy that has done a bunch of cool covers and only a handful of actual issues of comics. I saw a couple of illustrations of Adams in a couple of the Hellboy and Sin City trade paperbacks, but I don't think he does that much anymore but he did a bunch of covers in the 80s for Marvel.

Have you ever seen Tim Bradshaw do anything that wasn't a traced photo of a mate standing in front of a wall?

Art Adams is definitely known as a cartoonist rather than a cover artist.

I dream of the day that they give Tara McPherson her own comic book, instead of her doing covers once in awhile (see Thessaly and The Witching).

Does Arthur Suydam do anything but zombie covers anymore?

if McPherson wanted to be a cartoonist, "she" could give "herself" her own comic book. that she hasn't suggests she doesn't.

If you think Art Adams is known for covers only, you probably haven't read much of 80s Marvel. He was my favourite artist back then (check the X-Men/New Mutants Asgard crossover or the original Longshot miniseries for proof).

How would McPherson gives herself her own book?

I think he's saying that she's a he.

Well, then he's wrong. Cause she's a she.

At least in the 80s, That one X-men annual and the Longshot mini-series was about the only stuff I thought Art Adams ever did other than bunches of covers.

How would McPherson gives herself her own book?

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wow, fuck a nu-bbcode

I suppose I should feel PWN'd. But I don't really get it... are you saying that there are enough independent comics that if she really wanted to, she could make her own comic? Cause the commercial work she's done (Sandman properties and Fables properties) suggests she likes working with an established ethos. Whateva.

Those are all self published, not merely independent. And hey, who wouldn't want to duplicate the raging success of Big Numbers or Tyrant?

That's kind of a moot point anyway -- she does have a short comic in her portfolio.

Cause the commercial work she's done (Sandman properties and Fables properties) suggests she likes working with an established ethos. Whateva.

Does any of it suggest that she really wants to be a struggling cartoonist, not a well-paid commercial illustrator and it's only THE MAN that's holding her back? (If so, then surely self-publishing an issue or two of comics would serve to demonstrate to THE MAN how she is in fact capable of doing comics?)

And hey, who wouldn't want to duplicate the raging success of Big Numbers or Tyrant?

Tyrant #1 moved about 40k, Big Numbers something like 80,000 IIRC. I can't think of any self-publisher bar Smith who wouldn't, and he'd still be pretty impressed to pull those on RASL.

I was referring to their long, celebrated runs.

Yeah, I know obv. Just pointing out that the cheapshot doesn't work so well in retrospect cos plenty of people would be happy to take their money and run for two or four issues these days (HEY FOUR ISSUES JUST LIKE RASL)