You must choose ONE artist.
And only one, to illustrate to comic book of your life. Who do you pick? Also, post some of their work that shows off their style.
Warning: If you pick more than one your post, along with your life, will become null and void!
For me: Jae Lee
Chris Ware!
There is hope, but not for us.
This would change greatly based on my mood. Today, I'm gonna go with Ashley Wood.
Thought about Kent Williams, but Dave McKean has been in my life longer.
"What cha readin' fer??"
i love this thread!
i have hellshock original series 1-4.
i wouldn't say jim lee would be #1 over all that's a tough one. but here's some stuff
the last one is da bomb-diggity.
nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
I'd pick myself because my art is just as shoddy and badly layed out as my life.
"How horribly wonderful."
Oh, and whoever did the prime number shitting bear.
!
Man, looking at some of this artwork makes me wish I was more into comics. I really like the Ashley Wood stuff. But since I'm a angry old alcoholic, I'll just pick Robert Crumb. Unoriginal but accurate:
Good authors who once knew more clever words,
Now only use four letter words,
Writing prose.
Anything Goes.
-Cole Porter
There is nothing wrong with choosing R. Crumb. His work is fantastic.
I respect u Nate.
Yoshitaka Amano
His work always looks epic, and I'm a need all the help I can get in my illustrated life story.
"...human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars."
This is all amazing.
Frank Quitely
can i have chris bachalo?
Brian Wood
[insert any DMZ cover here:___________]
scoffs at my own laziness:
"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
Bill Sienkiewicz.
Because this is how the world looks to me.
Also:
This is why we can't have nice things.
James Jean
This guy's art is amazing. Actually, I wish he'd illustrate my comic more than my life, but I'd take either if I could.
Look, he's off to a good start! Me:
This guy's art is amazing. Actually, I wish he'd illustrate my comic more than my life, but I'd take either if I could.
Look, he's off to a good start! Me:
Took my choice. Definitely would want James Jean to illustrate my life. I love his work for Fables and Runaways.
Dave McKean, because he's the only comic artist whose name I actually seem to know.
For me, Michael Komarck. So realistic for fantasy, its disturbing.
There is a fine line between genius and insanity.
And it is called reason.
moebius
fuck you, nate. did even finish your intro when i thought exactly jimlee's brother, because he did a fantastic havoc. now, though, i'll go with my second choice:
.
my third would be bws
.
my forth, simon bisley
.
edit ps . didnt realize this is an old thread
therefor, i am old-
__________________________________
play hard, like it's work to be done.
I don't think they are really brothers, are they?
also:
Warning: If you pick more than one, your post, along with your life, will become null and void!
Jean Giraud, aka Moebius :
that last one is very joe kubert-ish.
Jim Lee without question, the whole reason I started collecting in the first place:
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning"
you ever get any of his Deathblow series?
seriously, just looking at his art in that makes me weak in the knees.
i remember feeling so moved by that cover that i spent some heavy hours drawing it
and my picture moved my best friend so much he wanted to ink it and wound up fucking it up completely
and sorry, nate. there are many different artists i would like to depict my life, if i ever decided i would like to have my life depicted. there cannot be only one !1!!
__________________________________
play hard, like it's work to be done.
Interesting that everyone seems to prefer very highly skilled and profilic artists. None of your Gary Larsons or Greg Lands. Well, barring the guy who is actually illustrating the comic book of my life - no one you've heard of - I'll stay on the competent artist bandwagon and go with David Mack. Impossible to find any one or ten pictures representative of his work because the man has mastered a thousand Goddamned styles. I'd scan some personal favorites but my scanner actually can't handle it. So, no pictures.
Imagination is my religion.
He's posted on here a couple times.
I've changed my mind. Rob Liefeld.
Because my anatomy is all fucked up too.
Or, possibly, Randall Munroe.
Because he's a fucking genius.
This is why we can't have nice things.
you know, I'm a pretty peacable kinda guy. I'm all for live and let live. But i really kinda hope that that liefeld guy is laying in an alley somewhere homeless and penniless and only surviving buy eating stolen cans of dog food.
Oh no, he's busy plotting some revamp of Greek mythology or adapting The Shawshank Redemption to comics or something.
Brave choice, mr Tuffy. But have you considered the possibility that Rob would actually go for it, because he needs the work? It seems very likely.
Also, David Mack has posted here? Awesome.
Imagination is my religion.
The late, great Seth Fisher
this is communication.
I love ashley wood. but I know it's only because I like big robots, sherlock holmes, warhol, super sexy bad ass women (organic or synth), and talking cats in punk bands.
Stuntkid's stuff is super fun. Looks familiar. Can't wait to explore his work. Any recommendations on where to start?
this is communication.
Funny, I have always imagined and will always imagine Six being drawn by Jamie Hewlett.
And I mean in real life.
Tell me that's not Tobii!
This is why we can't have nice things.
It's funny. Back in The Day, I worked nightshift at the Kinko's in Fullerton and this kid used to come in and get color xeroxes of these comic spreads. Original work. He was very into himself and when he accidentally left several of his original pages I kept them for some reason. They weren't any good, but whatever. He'd come in every week or so, driving up in a brand new Dodge Viper; a really expensive car.
Got talking to him over time and he was, aside from the self-importance, kind of an interesting fellow. We ended up getting drunk together a couple times after I got off work at 8 am.
He bought the drinks, which made it especially worthwhile to me.
Eventually he stopped coming around and another guy from the bar would bring his stuff in for copies. I asked him about it and he said he was now "personal assistant". Whatever.
I eventually threw away the original artwork. It was cluttering up a drawer.
And that's my Rob Liefeld story.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Jim Lee, Travis Charest, Whilce Partacio, Frank Miller, David Lapham & Katsuhiro Otomo.
Sorry.
Yeah. I haven't checked it out, but I remember seeing it and thinking, "this is Ashley Wood? ...Did he do the Gorillaz artwork?" The funny thing is he didn't. Tank Girl's co-creator Jamie Hewlett did, which had yet to cross my mind.
this is communication.
FRANK MILLER
~I Am Jack's Colon~
I'm gonna go with Mr. Skottie Young as the illustrator for my life. His sketchy style brings out a real sense of movement to his characters.
Ralph Steadman
but to really capture who I am I would choose my best friend Farrin
his style reminds me a lot of Scud the Disposable Assassin.
was scud any good? i've never got around to reading it.
If you like the absurd happening at any moment it was good.
Like when his arm gets torn off and he has a human arm put on, and then it turns out it's from a wolfman!
Gabriel Ba. So strangely beautiful. And kind of trippy. I like that...
We're all in the gutter, but some of us look at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde.
We're all mad here
~The Cheshire Cat.
Viva la revolucion!
I like the first and third ones there, but that second one, where the guy's doing the gun fingers, echhh!
Rick Altergott. I love Doofus because of how perverted and sleazy it is.
Or Jim Blanchard
My brand new 2011 halloween comp:
http://soundcloud.com/brosupremo/hallowmix-2-the-deadening/s-BKf8z
Arthur Adams
