Who is your favorite artist working in the comic industry?

Mignola

graham hands down
dude has that mix between moebius, comfy slice of life and 2000s anime that's super good. his work always produces a pleasant feeling when I see it. super good at coloring too

Jim Rugg

Reading Kabuki right now, so part of me wants to say David Mack, but I think I'm going to have to go with Canepa/Barbucci (always forget which one is the actual artist) for the use of colors and the clear architectural themes.

Anyone else seems like I only like their art as it relates to the story. Those are two of the only ones I would buy just prints of, though I do own a couple of those Mignola toys, I don't think that really compares to the ~200 dollar Noa bust.

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This was honestly really hard, but I have to give it to Brandon Graham. Great storytelling skills and for me every new page is such a treat.

There are so many crazy talented people drawing comics right now

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>>88924242
The thing about Williams is that not only is he amazing at art, he's also a master of panelling

>>88924345
Oh good, the Hellboy fanboys are here to tell us all how it's the greatest story ever written and everything about it is perfect.

Smallwood/Bellaire right now

But I've always admired Alex Ross for his technical mastery.

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Gurihiru

>>88925538
Greg Smallwood has improved an impressive amount in such a short time.

Bellaire makes everyone she works with look even better

>>88924387
>>88924598

>10 / 3 / 7 / 3

a lot of samefagging in this thread
go to sleep, brandon, before it's too late

Jim lee got me into drawing.

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Hard to pin down a favorite, but Doc Shaner's work makes me feel all tingly inside. I know he does interior work, but not a lot at this point. I would love to see him draw more of the Justice 9 from Earth-36.

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I like Christian Ward

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>>88925712

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Williams

My top 5 are:
Paul Pope
Becky Cloonan
Stuart Immonen
Terry Moore
James Harren

Mignola, Nihei, and Miller(not his current stuff of course)

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Not in exact order but close...
> JH Williams the 3rd
> Lee Bermejo (pic related)
> Francis Manapul
> Ivan Reis (with Joe Prado's inks)
> Jason Fabok
> Marco Checchetto
> Esad Ribic
> Jerome Opena
> Clayton Crain
> Rafa Sandoval
> Frank Cho
> Gary Frank
> Marco Rudy
And there is certainly a few I'm not thinking of.

>>88925950
Oh yeah Stuart Immonen should be above Sandoval.

>>88925754
Doc on an ongoing Shazam book is what the world needs!

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>>88924242
Mike Del Mundo is my favorite working today. Shame he doesn't work with better writers, Elektra is the best written thing he's drawn. The Avengers is boring as fuck to read despite having Kang, and Hercules in it. How the fuck do you make them boring?

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Esad Ribic, although he slips up a few times with his "Oh" faces.

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>>88926089
And David Aja, love the simplicity in his work.

>>88924242

>Frazer Irving
>Lee Bermejo
>Mike Del Mundo
>Guillem March
>JH Williams III
>Tim Sale
>Dustin Nguyen

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>>88924242
Quitely

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Ryan Ottely

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Darwyn Cooke is my all time favorite, but here are some others I love

>>88924242
Jaime Hernandez

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>>88926565
Also Stokoe!

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bump

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>>88926022
>Elektra is the best written thing he's drawn.
I enjoyed both volumes of Weirdworld considerably more than Electra (the surrealism made considerably more sense given the setting).

>>88924242
Overture looked fucking amazing. Shame about the story not really being on the same level.

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For me its probably Dave Sim. He understood how to pace humor with panel breaks, as well as drama. And while most of it could be said to be verbal, a lot of it is physical too. He really gets body language, and you can tell a lot about his characters by how they move.

He also really knows how to use lettering to it's best effect, which is something I find lacking in most comics, which tend to use the same size and font for everything and also tend ignore sound effects entirely now for 'realism'

Sim really gets that comics are a visual medium, and does his best to make sure everything works towards that end.

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emma rios

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MATT

FUCKING

FRANK

>>88925478
>stop liking things!!!

>>88927742
I love Sim too but the nigger literally has lost his ability to draw, his current work consists of copypaste stuff from his old work. It's quite sad.

Stokoe
Quietly
Fiffe
JPL
Ha
Burns
Graham
Mccrea
Villalobos

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Roccafort

>>88925574
>cute squirrel girl never

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>>88928067
>cute squirrel girl never
Cute squirrel girl now!

>>88928120
Aww that Doreen deserves buckets of hugs.

>>88928120
but that squirrel girl isn't cute

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steve rude

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>>88925616
No.

>>88927138
I thought the writing was great. Maybe not on the same level as the normal Sandman issues, but that's an absurd standard.

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Either James Stokoe or Doug Manke.

>>88926565
>That Eva Green Catwoman
sauce?

>>88926565
>not giving their names

I can recognize a few of them, but you gotta be more helpful than that.

>>88930801
not him but
ribic, dave mckean, dustin nguyen
del mundo, fiona staples, jae lee
tula lotay, JH Williams III, greg capullo

R.M. Guera, Bermejo, Capullo, Stelfreeze, Parlov

I'm not crazy about Mignola, but he deserves a mention here at least.

From those that don't do too much in comics these days, Sal Buscema, Sienkiewicz, Kieth, Breyfogle.

From the fresh pile, definitely Kei Zama. There is this faggy artstyle in many comics these days, mostly popularized by Marvel - kids' choice of oversaturated colors, photoshop airbrush everywhere, sloppy disney lines, soft shapes, blacks only in letter boxes, and general incompetence covered by either Poser or cries about muh artsyle.
Kei Zama is the fucking antithesis of this.

>>88930657
Jae Lee.

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>>88926565
>>88930931
great taste. The only one I would disagree with is Capullo, who I think is kind of overrated.

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>>88924242
Gary Frank
Ivan Reis
Jesus Saiz

I was introduced to Swamp Thing thanks to the N52 and Jesus Saiz's design has been my definitive image of ST ever since

Stjepan Sejic. Shame about his shoulder though.

>>88931653
i used to really like him, then i noticed he always draws the same characters and how little effort he puts into things that aren't the focus.
Hes not bad but it kinda kills me when i want to enjoy a page's art and anything that isnt the focus is squiggly lines

>>88931791
He puts way more effort into things he wrote. And his monster designs ara simply amazing. Death Vigil is a good example.

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Bruno Redondo

>>88927885
Yeah, apparently if he's lucky he'll recover back to Cerebus levels of drawing, but never be back to photo realistic like he was before. I just hope he is able to get The Strange Death of Alex Raymond out with the help of those other artists he hired.

Out of the ones that are doing work on a consistent schedule now

Fernando Blanco
Tommy Lee Edwards
Dustin Nguyen
Jason Shawn Alexander
Mike Del Mundo
Juan Ferreyra
Nick Derrington
Tyler Crook
Greg Smallwood
Wes Craig
Dean Ormston

>>88932780
Oh and Otto Schmidt and Riley Rossmo.

>>88927742
What about Gerhard? The person that actualyl drew it?

>>88926565
>Cooke
>working

>>88933518
He's working in our hearts

>>88933591
Cooke was a dick.

>>88932604
>photo realistic like he was before
He was never photo realistic

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Rudy

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>>88933723
Ehh, he got pretty close with stuff like glamourpuss and what we saw of SDAR. I mean in an Al Williamson way, of course, which is what he was going for.

Has to be Stan Sakai. Although I love many artists, no one can express as much with just black lines.

>>88933469
Gerhard drew backgrounds, and my praise of Sim isn't meant to be any kind of putdown of Gerhard's ability. They're both great artists, but I especially like Sim's ability to draw people. Its a weird cross of cartoonish gestures and features, but its all so believable at the same time. And the lettering was all Sim.

Bilquis Evely
>tfw she's taking over Wonder Woman

>>88928774
I'm ready for Rude's Kamandi challenge.

>>88933976
Ah, sorry about that. I am quite defensive about Gerhard. His work on Cerebus was beyond anything I ever saw in a western comic. It's up there with Inoue Takehiko's.

Stuart Immonen with Grawbadger of course.

>>88934169
Yeah what a waste...

>>88934541
Takehiko is much better though, and he doesn't just draw comics.

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>>88934541
I understand. The guy is in a league of his own, and when he joined the comic the quality of the art definitely leaped ahead. It is a shame how he gets overlooked by fans so often. I'm sad that by the end of it it had turned into something he could no longer enjoy doing, considering how much work he put into it.