ILC puzzle: spot the artist references

Can we spot all the artist homaged on this page (it's from Hero Comics 2011):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/08-31-2011-123529PM.jpg

Here's the ones I think I got:

Panel 1: Don Martin
Panel 2: Matt Groening
Panel 3: Picasso
Panel 4: ?
Panel 5: looks familiar, but I can't place it.
Panel 6: ?
Panel 7: the Family Circus guy.
Panel 8: some manga artist?
Panel 9: the Walking Dead guy.
Panel 10: Frank Miller?
Panel 11: ?
Panel 12: ?
Panel 13: Tex Avery
Panel 14: ?
Panel 15: ?
Panel 16: another familiar-looking style, but I'm not sure who it is.

You can view a reallty big version of the same image here.

I guess #5 is supposed to be Gerry Alanguilan?

or as Tuomas would call him, "the Elmer guy."

pretty sure panel 7 isn't seth mcfarlane but bil keane

lol Mordy

last one mignola?

I thought about Mignola too because of the shadow, but it looks a bit too cartoonish to be him. I wonder if the written text in the panel is supposed to be a hint of who's it imitating.

also looks like kevin o'neill

The last one looks like Jamie Hewlett to me. And the first one on the second row has a Moebius vibe to it imo.

I know I'm gonna ask a real zeitgeisty, generational question here...

But do they all have to be references to something?

are you asking in general or to this in particular -- because in particular, it would be like asking, "does the NYT crossword puzzle clues have to have answers" though I just looked at this friday's puzzle and thought just that.

The last one looks like Jamie Hewlett to me.

Yeah, the style plus the little bits of text with arrows is very Hewlett

I thought about Hewlett too, but the nose doesn't look Hewlett-y to me. Maybe it is him though.

Panel 5 isn't Moebius, but it's definitely a reference to some artist I know - the way the eye, nose, and mouth are drawn is very distinctive - but I just can't place it. How irritating!

Panel 5 looks like the art from Chew, Panel 6 must be a Robot Chicken reference.

Chew! That's what I was looking for! I just found this pic on another site and I didn't know the artist, but turns out it's actually from a Chew short story in the Hero Comics 2011 anthology, and it's drawn by Chew artist Rob Guillory.

Now, how about the other panels? I think panel 11 is a pastiche of some underground comix artist? Maybe Kim Deitch?

I've never seen Deitch work in colour holds.

And I guess panel 14 is just supposed to be a general stained glass art pastiche? And panel 12 is maybe a reference to the pictures found in vases of the Ancient Greece?

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Yeah, I guess it's not Deitch... Maybe Jim Woodring?

Woodring not one for skeletons, colour holds, nor limited palettes either.

Agree on the generic stained glass though, and yeah, likely urn or frieze paintings for 12.

Okay, here's an updated list:

Panel 1: Don Martin
Panel 2: Matt Groening
Panel 3: Picasso
Panel 4: ?
Panel 5: Chew by Rob Guillory (the guy who drew this page)
Panel 6: Robot Chicken(?)
Panel 7: Bil Keane
Panel 8: some manga artist?
Panel 9: Tony Moore
Panel 10: Frank Miller(?)
Panel 11: ?
Panel 12: generic Ancient Greek painting(?)
Panel 13: Tex Avery
Panel 14: generic stained glass art(?)
Panel 15: ?
Panel 16: Jamie Hewlett(?)

http://malinen.info/malinen/100characters

This is not a puzzle, but some Finnish artist has done 10 comic book character in 10 styles, so that each character borrows the style from the 9 others, and it's pretty great! Moomin by Hugo Pratt and Batman by Uderzo are my particular favourites.

And Donald Duck the superhero!

That's really clever, and nicely done. Love the Moomin variations, especially.

Yep, really great

okay: uderzo, watterson, barks, herge, aparo, X, pratt, jannson, davis, schulz... who is X?

also i get that the watterson donald is meant to be a t-rex of sorts but nagl

X is a Pentti Jarla, a Finnish comic strip artist. He's quite popular in here, but his work is essentially untranslatable, as he's mostly doing visual gags based on puns and wordplay.