Her nipples are in totally the wrong spot, like a really bad boob job. Has that man seen real breasts, or is the character supposed to be a victim of bad plastic surgery?
Actually, some women do have “Superman” nipples… they point up, up, and away.
I think the idea is that she’s soooo excited about leaping into battle with Venom (because he has a huge, warm, and wet tongue) that her nipples are superhumanly hard and perky.
Yeah, either that or Joe Mad has been learning from Pat Lee.
Look at where they are, not where they are pointed. They are almost in her armpits! When women get a boob job very often what happens is the nipples get pushed way up and way out. In her case her nipples are basically at the top/outer edge of her breasts.
Yes, this is what I was talking about. It’s not typical, but it happens.
Salvador Larroca is incredibly underrated. He’s a talented artist but more importantly he’s consistent. He’ll stick around on a comic for a decent amount of time. When he’s drawing a comic you don’t have to worry about delays or fill-in artists.
It’s a shame that most of his comics were wasted on some putrid X-Men comics from horrible writers like Chuck Austen and Peter Milligan. If you want to see his best work check out issues of Fantastic Four in which he was the artist.
His Invisible Woman in a bikini was God Tier! :lovin:
No particular order:
Vaughn Bode
Masahiko Nakahira
Hirahiko Araki
Toyokazu Matsunaga
Mark Beyer
Jaime Hernandez
Robert Crumb
Junko Mizuno
Usumaru Furuya
Paperrad
Hmm. Must be others.
Jack Kirby
John Byrne
Neal Adams
Alex Ross
Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri [Yeah, I’m a perv]
Jim Lee [For Nostalgia]
Lately I’ve been into…
Alberto Breccia
Jeff Jones
Barry Smith
Mike Kaluta
Bernie Wrightson
Strictly old school.
I couldn’t find a good reference on Breccia online, so I made one:
http://comicbookmasters.blogspot.com/
My 2 cents on Joe Mad: he’s a good artist, but he sells himself short because he’s clearly only learned from other comic artists. Not a lot of research or serious art diving.
i like humberto ramos. fuck the haters
I like Humberto Ramos, too. He has a funny exaggerated style, but he’s got the storytelling chops where it counts. I think Joe Mad is just a crippled third world country poor man’s Humberto Ramos.
bachalo is same category as ramos. so good.
oh yeah, how could i forget:
rags morales. his work on “identity crisis” was fantastic.
I think Bachalo is in a class of his own. He seems to get criticized for having art that’s hard to follow, but I don’t think that’s really a problem. He adds a layer of complexity with his art and makes the story more dense, in a great way. His storytelling skills are top tier. Even just checking out his older work, like Shade the Changing Man and Death, it’s pretty amazing how good those comics looked. And you can see how his style has evolved over the years but at the end of the day he just knows how to draw the hell out of a script. Even if it’s like some cruddy Scott Lobdell thing, like for Gen X, Bachalo could still make it look respectable.
To me it is a problem, there are issues that I can’t even begin understanding what the fuck is going on. Though I agree his work on Death was good and I enjoyed it. It’s just work now I just skip, not my cup of tea.
I can promise you his newest X-Men/Spider-man work is much easier to read than his Steampunk/Witching Hour/Ultimate X-Men stuff.
Very clear story telling.
In no particular order:
Franquin
Lewis Trondheim (pretty much my favorite, right now and forever)
Christophe Blain
Akira Toriyama (You know his stuff)
Marjane Satrapi (hard to find a good link, did the graphic novel series Persepolis, before it turned into a movie)
Craig Thompson
Doug TenNapel
Mark Retera
Mark van der Holst
Peter de Wit
Yukito Kishiro (Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita)
Hanco Kolk
Joann Sfar
Those are all whom I can think of right now…
Hahaha! My hat’s off to you, sir. That is a brilliant name.
David Aja