Comments on: The Best Comic Artists Working http://geeksploit.com/2009/04/22/the-best-comic-artists-working/ Where geeks come to die... Fri, 04 May 2012 19:53:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hectorcles http://geeksploit.com/2009/04/22/the-best-comic-artists-working/#comment-113 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:59:57 +0000 http://geeksploit.com/?p=269#comment-113 Great list. I don’t read Invincible but I guess I should…everyone who’s anyone does. My personal fav list isn’t exactly a list of the BEST artists out there but they have the styles I like the best. Your list is much closer to the actual “best” list out there. With the exception of Ottley and Quietly (who I think is more of an aquired taste) I think Frank, Coipel and McNiven specifically deserve to be on every top list.

My favourites tend to drift away from realism and more cartoony stuff with less lines, exaggerated muscles and overly sexy women (can that even happen?). They include Jim Lee, Ed McGuiness, Carlos Pacheco, Ivan Reis and Leinil Yu. Anything Jim Lee I just love. Ed was a huge inspiration on my personal drawing style aswell as Pacheco. Ivan is a recent fav that just made the list and Leinil Yu I’ve been a fan of since Superman Birthright. His Secret Invasion was fucking spectacular. I admit much of what I hated about comics in the 90′s was spearheaded by Jim Lee (along with Leifeld….shudder) but his actual style is just badass. Honourable mentions for myself are: Jae Lee, Stefano Caselli and Dustin Nguyen. Basically my fav artists are the ones who inspire me the most.

One thing I think shouldn’t matter in THIS case because the pencils should stand on their own but inkers and colourist play a HUGE part, a HUUUUUGE part on the art. A bad inker will fuck TONS of shit up. Colourists like Alex Sinclair or Frank D’Armata will make ANYTHING 100x better. Kudos to all of the inkers and colourists.

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