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the great comix is art thing. kent fucking williams et al.

mainly used to sell comics to fools or...?

any examples that you like...that actually work? i'm thinking blood may be the worst comic ever made.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

i kinda like carl barks' paintings. can't think of anything else.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

s: jim woodring, i guess - is that painted?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

S: Didn't Mark Martin paint some of his cartoons?
D: All 80's and 90's "serious" painted superhero comics.

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 10 September 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

i like what's going down in Iron Man.
Not typically a fan of John J Muth, or Alex Ross...

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 10 September 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeah! A lot of the Montgomery Wart stuff Mark Martin did was painted -- he had to keep up with Jim Woodring.

I never went for any of that painted art, but I always thought Scott Hampton was ok and John Bolton had a fine sensibility. The Tapping the Vein series Eclipse put out usually had terrific (and grotesque) covers.

― ng-unit, Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, a lot of JW's color stuff these days is watercolors. (xp)

I remember a couple of issues of Dreadstar were watercolored, or something like it, and the fan response was furious. I kinda liked it. It's been around 20 years since I saw that stuff, though, so I don't know if I'd like it now.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Some of Glenn Fabry's painted stuff for 2000AD was gorgeous, as was Kevin Walker's. On the whole, though, I agree that a clear line style tends to tell a story a lot better.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit yeah - seek "You Are Here" and other Kyle Baker painted comics. That one's my favorite, though. He really finds a way to combine the feel of clearline drawing and the look of full painting (or nearly so) to me. There are parts where it's more like drawing cartoons with paint, though. Which is probably the way to go with this sort of thing anyway.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Dan Brereton is crying because no-one has mentioned him so far on this.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Never understood the fuss about Brereton - ugly art.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Me neither, but it is Painted As Fuck.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Kent Williams is all right! After all, he's done some great stuff like... um...

― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Baker's You Are Here is pixels, not paint.

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

I like Brereton to a point. He's sorta like Alex Ross's Goth Big Sister.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

"Baker's You Are Here is pixels, not paint."

Really? Well, shut my mouth.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Destroy: the horrible 90's trend of lame trading card artists jumping on to the comic field (john estes, hildebrandt bros) John Bolton on "The Furies" (well he wasn't the only dud there, the script was such a bore too)

Search: I like Lynn Varley most of the time. Even more, I don't think painted art is evil in itself...it only gives me the shivers when it aims for boring photorealism.

That being said, I could never swallow european prog sci-fi artists like Moebius or Juan Gimenez (though I have no problem with Blueberry)

I've seen some Baker painted art. The cover for the original Why I Hate Saturn was painted, as well as the one he did for Fast Forward. But covers don't count, do they?

― iodine (iodine), Saturday, 10 September 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

His Justice Inc. miniseries (with Helfer, after the Shadow cancellation) was possibly semi-painted, though it looks more like it might be pastels or something (inside black-line outlines).

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 11 September 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

sienkewicz?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 11 September 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

So, painting inside an already pencilled and inked page doesn't count either?

― iodine (iodine), Sunday, 11 September 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

is that to me? Justice Inc wasn't fully pencilled and inked with painted colouring, there were just black outlines framing the figures. I'm saying it doesn't count as painted if it was done in pastels, because they're not paint.

if it's a general question, then I say no anyway, it's just another way of colouring traditional line art.

Sienkiewicz total genius for those times he gets it right: Elektra Assassin and Stray Toasters YAY, Jimi Hendrix biog ZZZ. There's some great discussion on writing for him in the Sim/Gaiman interview in new Following Cerebus.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 11 September 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

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