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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:36 am |
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When you think of various decades of comics, which artist comes to mind first? My list is heavily biased toward Marvel, but I'd go with...
1960s - Jack Kirby
1970s - Dave Cockrum
1980s - John Byrne
1990s - Rob Liefeld
2000s - Bryan Hitch
I'm not really thinking in terms of who was the best of each decade, but whose work instantly comes to mind when you think of that decade.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:50 am |
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I agree with the 60's, 80's and 00's, but Neal would be the 70's and Lee the 90's for me.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:28 am |
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The 70's are tough because the most influential and innovative artists didn't have a ton of output in that decade.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:14 am |
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Yeah, Jim Lee comes to mind for the 90's. I'd say Neal Adams for the 70's, he didn't have a large page output but he sure did alot of covers.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:10 pm |
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I agree with some of your list. I think Lee has, long term, proven to be the most successful artist of the 90s. Liefeld is mostly seen as a joke these days, even in retrospect when looking at his old, popular stuff.
60s: Kirby 70s: Neal Adams 80s: George Perez 90s: Jim Lee 00s: Hitch
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:17 pm |
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1960s - Jack Kirby 1970s - John Buscema 1980s - John Byrne 1990s - Dan Jurgens 2000s - John Cassaday That's my take on it. 
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 12:32 pm |
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:41 pm |
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1960s - Jack Kirby
1970s - Neal Adams
1980s - Frank Miller
1990s - Jim Lee
2000s - Frank Quitely
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:47 pm |
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Good one, Miller for the 80s. Hard to disagree with.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:48 pm |
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:15 pm |
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It's a funny one for me because I think I used to read a lot of comics yet my comic reading only spanned one decade, with reprints taking me into the earlier one: so for me it goes
60s - Kirby 70s - Adams then ummmm
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:41 pm |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: 1960s - Jack Kirby
1970s - Neal Adams
1980s - Frank Miller
1990s - Jim Lee
2000s - Frank Quitely This. 
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:33 pm |
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Frank Miller probably is THE 80's guy - but my personal 80's guy was Byrne. Same as Jurgens being "my" 90's artist, etc. Liefeld was probably THE 90's guy in general terms, but I avoided his stuff like the plague in those days, just as I avoided Miller's work until Sin City grabbed my attention.
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:47 pm |
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It's a little different for me than for those who lived through the 60s and 70s and those who paid attention to the creators in the 80s.
In the 80s, I was a little kid and just bought whatever book looked best... I didn't really learn who the creators were until I was 11 or 12. I didn't really even know much about Byrne beyond a Dark Phoenix TPB until I got on AOL and checked out the Byrne Ward. His hey-day had long passed by the time I was seriously collecting.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:49 pm |
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I would also say Darwyn Cooke for the 2000s.
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Simon
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:02 am |
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In the 70's, I was little, and got reprints of 60's Marvel stuff from the newsagent, thinking they were new.  In the 80's, I was obsessed with collecting 70's Marvel stuff, and I first started to get into (then) current DC stuff, probably because of Watchmen having hit the fifteen year old me like a ton of bricks. I was really into finding out who was who and what was what - I loved Ross Andru, John Buscema, Mike Ploog, Marie Severin, Jim Starlin, Steve Gerber, Val Mayerick, etc. All the 70's Marvel people. I was less knowledgeable regarding DC, but got heavily into the original COIE, and then collected Superman comics until the end of the 'Electric Boogaloo' Superman era. Todd McFarlane killed my interest in Spidey, so I became mostly a DC person. My greatest comic book love, though, is still 70's Marvel. I'm not sure why - I think it's because I saw this stuff in the newsagency, but was only allowed to get the cheaper B&W reprints. They were 20 cents, and the all-new all-colour stuff was 75 cents an issue. My parents felt they were being responsible, I guess. Here I am, almost forty, still getting 70's Marvel stuff, though. I sold off my whole collection in about 2001, and have been selectively rebuilding certain parts of it.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:54 am |
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1950s-Wayne Boring Hanzo the Razor wrote: 1960s - Jack Kirby
1970s - Neal Adams
1980s - Frank Miller
1990s - Jim Lee
2000s - Frank Quitely +1
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:12 am |
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Simon wrote: Frank Miller probably is THE 80's guy - but my personal 80's guy was Byrne. Same as Jurgens being "my" 90's artist, etc. Liefeld was probably THE 90's guy in general terms, but I avoided his stuff like the plague in those days, just as I avoided Miller's work until Sin City grabbed my attention. Todd McFarlane was THE '90s guy. Weren't you around in the '90s?
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:18 am |
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As popular as McFarlane was, I think both Lee and Liefeld were more influential at the time, and the X-Books were certainly more popular than Spider-Man.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:37 am |
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Monk wrote: As popular as McFarlane was, I think both Lee and Liefeld were more influential at the time, and the X-Books were certainly more popular than Spider-Man. The X-Men was big no matter who did it but Spider-Man exploded with Todd on it and Spider-Man #1 was a big stinkin' deal--as was Spawn #1. X-Men and WildCATS were both heavily ordered but didn't sell through whereas Todd's stuff was not only ordered high but sold big. Jim was the artist that retailers liked and they wanted fans to like them (and many did) whereas both Rob and Todd were artists that fans loved and retailers had their doubts about.
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:40 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Has there ever been an artist as good as Cooke who can't work for one of the Big Two because of behavior?
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Post subject: Artist of the Decade Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:42 am |
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If we are going by sales, we need to start this thread over.
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