I will be attending Heroes Con later this month and to say that I’m excited to meet Johnathan is an understatement. As an annual subscriber will I have any perks at the con?
Bill Sienkiewicz. You have to understand my first real exposure to him was New Mutants as a 12 year old. His stuff was hard to digest as a 12 year old. 3 years later and ever since he has been a top 5 artist for me.
I had a similar experience with Dave McKean. Hated Arkham Asylum when I first read it and now it's one of my favorite Bat books and he's one of my favorite artists
When he took over Cable around issue 48 or so with James Robinson on words I was about ready to Chuck the book off my pull list after having a year and a half of fill in artists after Ian Churchill left.
I was so used to the Marvel house style that this huge departure from the norm threw me completely. I was not familiar with Kirby either so the comparisons fell flat with me.
However I began to notice the amount of detail that was poured into each page. The visceral energy that crackled (see what I did there 😉) in his action scenes.
Then with Joe Casey on bored the book grew into something else and I was devastated when they both left the book and their storylines were co-opted into something else, something less.
Beautiful art and storytelling in a time that just wasn’t ready for it.
Charlie Adlard. When Adlard first took over for Tony Moore on The Walking Dead, I was apoplectic (in the most minor version of that word). But over time, it became impossible for me to imagine anyone but Charlie there, and I realized what an effective character actor and storyteller he was. He defined the book, even if at first I just wanted more of Moore.
(It took me like two arcs. It wasn't that dramatic.)
I honestly can’t think of any artists that my opinion turned around much. There are artist that I liked, but feel have improved significantly since I first saw their work. Frank Quitely has always had an amazing sense of story telling, but I felt like his characters’ faces, especially the women all looked similar. Over the years they’ve become much more unique, but still keeping his overall aesthetic. Having a great sense of story was always more important to me than raw talent. I don’t miss the early Image pose splash pages that did little to convey what was actually happening.
Went back and looked at the issues. I forgot about the Paparazzi arc which was early. My memory seemed to focus on a storyline with Shocker which was later on. I stand corrected.
Frank Robbins! Oh, how I complained and then slowly but surely came to love him. Now it borders on obsession. Same with Toth. I needed some education and once I got it, there was no looking back.
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I will be attending Heroes Con later this month and to say that I’m excited to meet Johnathan is an understatement. As an annual subscriber will I have any perks at the con?
Same question!
Bill Sienkiewicz. You have to understand my first real exposure to him was New Mutants as a 12 year old. His stuff was hard to digest as a 12 year old. 3 years later and ever since he has been a top 5 artist for me.
I had a similar experience with Dave McKean. Hated Arkham Asylum when I first read it and now it's one of my favorite Bat books and he's one of my favorite artists
Humberto Ramos.
Same, although I still struggle with him here and there.
My guess is that Spidey artist was Marcos Martin?
That was my initial thought too, but then Wacker said "early on" - I think Marcos Martin came in a few years into it. Could it be Chris Bachelo?
Marcos did 3 issues in the first few months of BND.
José Ladrönn
When he took over Cable around issue 48 or so with James Robinson on words I was about ready to Chuck the book off my pull list after having a year and a half of fill in artists after Ian Churchill left.
I was so used to the Marvel house style that this huge departure from the norm threw me completely. I was not familiar with Kirby either so the comparisons fell flat with me.
However I began to notice the amount of detail that was poured into each page. The visceral energy that crackled (see what I did there 😉) in his action scenes.
Then with Joe Casey on bored the book grew into something else and I was devastated when they both left the book and their storylines were co-opted into something else, something less.
Beautiful art and storytelling in a time that just wasn’t ready for it.
Charlie Adlard. When Adlard first took over for Tony Moore on The Walking Dead, I was apoplectic (in the most minor version of that word). But over time, it became impossible for me to imagine anyone but Charlie there, and I realized what an effective character actor and storyteller he was. He defined the book, even if at first I just wanted more of Moore.
(It took me like two arcs. It wasn't that dramatic.)
Well said David.
I honestly can’t think of any artists that my opinion turned around much. There are artist that I liked, but feel have improved significantly since I first saw their work. Frank Quitely has always had an amazing sense of story telling, but I felt like his characters’ faces, especially the women all looked similar. Over the years they’ve become much more unique, but still keeping his overall aesthetic. Having a great sense of story was always more important to me than raw talent. I don’t miss the early Image pose splash pages that did little to convey what was actually happening.
Will the 3W3M team be at NYCC?
Some artists I now love but didn’t really enjoy at first: Andrea Sorrentino, Martin Simmonds and Lenil Francis Yu. I was a fool and was soon won over!
Nick Roche and Alex Milne of Transformers fame.
Went back and looked at the issues. I forgot about the Paparazzi arc which was early. My memory seemed to focus on a storyline with Shocker which was later on. I stand corrected.
I hope he’s going to get DC out the mud.
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing. I loved VALLARS and I can't wait for GODS. This is all such exciting work I am hype for anything that drops lol.
Frank Robbins! Oh, how I complained and then slowly but surely came to love him. Now it borders on obsession. Same with Toth. I needed some education and once I got it, there was no looking back.
JRJ took me forever to get used to. I still am up and down on Ed McGuiness. One I significantly struggle with to this day is Eric Canate.