View Poll Results: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
Neal Adams
10
20.83%
Jim Aparo (The Brave and the Bold)
10
20.83%
Simone Bianchi
0
0%
Brian Bolland (The Killing Joke)
2
4.17%
Bob Brown
0
0%
Gene Colan
0
0%
Alan Davis
0
0%
Carmine Infantino
0
0%
Kelley Jones
2
4.17%
Bob Kane (original creator)
1
2.08%
Jim Lee
3
6.25%
Dave McKean
0
0%
David Mazzuchelli (Year One)
2
4.17%
Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns)
1
2.08%
Sheldon Moldoff
1
2.08%
Don Newton
0
0%
Jerry Robinson
0
0%
Marshall Rogers
3
6.25%
Alex Ross
1
2.08%
Tim Sale (The Long Halloween)
1
2.08%
Dick Sprang
1
2.08%
Bruce Timm
3
6.25%
Other
7
14.58%
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Who is your favorite Batman artist?
#51
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
I don't think it's less cartoony because both Aparo and Novick admitted they tried to ape Adams realistic style in the early 70's to keep the look consistent in the Batman books.
#52
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
I meant his later work looks less cartoony - I also don't care for his aping of Adams and thought he came into his own better. Of course I think Adams is a better overall artist, but in my mind, Aparo's later work is the definitive Batman.
#53
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
I'll have to check out those issues. I checked some death in the family issues this weekend and determined that I wasn't too harsh on DeCarlo's inks. Still hate them with a passion.
#56
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#57
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
I just don't think of Batman when I think of Jim Lee, or vice versa. His Bat-work came after I bailed on reading comics regularly. I still think of him as an X-Men artist.
#58
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
Jim Lee inked by Charest? That must have taken a year to do...
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#60
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Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
After just re-reading Knightfall, I have to pick Breyfogle. His 90's work was always dynamic.
#61
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Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
You can read more about this at bleedingcool.
#62
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
When Kevin Nowlan inks, for instance, you can see his style clearly over the pencils.
#63
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
I like Jim Lee's art but his Batman is boring. He always looks stiff. I did a search and basically he is always drawing the Batman in almost the same pose over and over. Check out the link. I know there are repeats in there but overall it's the same shit. There's no sense of motion, urgency or movement.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...8&fr=yfp-t-544
http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...8&fr=yfp-t-544
#64
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
I would have to check, but most of those images are the pinup/poster variety, so they only show Batman in stoic, front facing poses. I get what you're saying, though.
The real problem with Lee's popularity as a Batman artist? His association with Miller in All Star Batman and Robin.
The real problem with Lee's popularity as a Batman artist? His association with Miller in All Star Batman and Robin.
#65
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
Jim Lee's Batman is too bulky for the character. The chest-to-waist ratio is way too high, it makes him look like a bodybuilder who only cares about bench pressing. Any good superhero would know the bench press is one of the least applicable exercises possible to athletic movements like punching and kicking.
#66
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
I'm sure this isn't typical of the pencils Scott Williams gets from Jim Lee routinely but I think it shows just how much an inker can bring to the table:
http://comicsinkers.blogspot.com/200...n-jim-lee.html
Here are various inkers working on a Wolverine cover:
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=80971
#68
Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
Here's some inks by Williams' over Adams' pencils. Odyssey was a POS but the artwork was awesome.
http://toyinspire.blogspot.com/2010/...omic-book.html
http://toyinspire.blogspot.com/2010/...omic-book.html
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Re: Who is your favorite Batman artist?
At one of my LCSs, I saw that they've released the Neal Adams Batman vol. 1 in paperback. I never got the hardback so might pick this up.
But I see there's also a "Kindle edition," which appears to be a Kindle fire edition, which is kind of cool.
http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Illustr.../dp/B008NFNXMG
But I see there's also a "Kindle edition," which appears to be a Kindle fire edition, which is kind of cool.
http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Illustr.../dp/B008NFNXMG