Rick, I agree 100 percent with you about Colan. I preferred him on horror, too. That's where the shadowy qualities of his style worked best. On superheroes, they could seem intrusive.
Regarding some of the other artists you mentioned:
Wally Wood on JSA was genius, especially when they were in Camelot and then in that weird futuristic world.
John Byrne, nothing he says can make me stop loving his X-Men, or his Alpha Flight, or the first 3 years of his Fantastic Four.
Dick Dillin -- I'm smiling as I type this. It always makes me happy to learn someone else is a fan of his. He genuinely seemed to enjoy the challenges the JLA gig brought with it, especially on the Annual team ups with the JSA. Nothing against George Pérez, but I wish Dillin had lived long enough to draw the entire JLA/JSA/New Gods team up.
Jan Duursema, I agree on Arion, very underrated run on an underrated character. Her work on the last year or so of Hawkworld almost redeemed the aspects of that series that I disliked.
Leonard Kirk, along with Supergirl and JSA, also drew a sizable portion of Peter David's long-form X-Factor run, which is worth checking out whenever Marvel finally gets around to collecting it in the Omnibus format.
I love that series! I remember getting an issue of it as part of a bundle of random comics ordered from a Christmas catalog when I was a kid!
Glad to hear that, EDE!
I already had some familiarity with Hercules Unbound, because the final 2 issues (11 & 12) were reprinted in the 1989 Art of Walter Simonson trade.
Hmmm...and Simonson's predecessor on the series was none other than Jose Luis Garcia Lopez! Yeah, I'm gonna save up for a whole set of Hercules Unbound.
RIP Sergio Asteriti, one of my favorite Italian Disney artists, active from 1963 to 2017. He was 94.
Asteriti's shadowy, highly atmospheric style had more in common with Gene Colan than the other Disney artists. But he could do brighter, lighter stuff, too, depending on the needs of the story.
According to his Wikipedia Italiano entry, he is the 8th most prolific of the Italian Disney artists.
If I had to pick a favorite Asteriti story, it would have to be the one where Mickey Mouse takes on the mantle of a Zorro-like hero. Mickey ends up inspiring the original to come out of self-imposed exile.
Today they are joined by Sophie Campbell, who is an out-and-proud transwoman, and the first openly trans artist to get high-profile gigs on well-known Intellectual Properties, namely Jem and the Holograms, which I love, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I've never really gotten into. Like some of the artists listed at the top of this post, Sophie's work is quirky, playful, highly influenced by manga/anime, and always on just the right side of cartoony. On the Jem series, she did a favor for all women by portraying a diversity of body types, most notably making both Aja from the Holograms and Stormer from the Misfits full-figured and happy about it. She was also instrumental in having mainstream comics deal with LGBTQ issues directly, although that particular Jem issue was a controversial one even within the LGBTQ community (as discussed by Sarcasm Kid and I, at the end of the Jem thread I linked to above.)
Note that Sophie Campbell has perhaps her highest profile gig to date as the new writer/artist on Supergirl!
I'd heard on Twitter that Sophie Campbell was going to work on Supergirl in 2016, but something having to do with Eddie Berganza stopped it from happening. I don't know all the details or if it's true.
Today they are joined by Sophie Campbell, who is an out-and-proud transwoman, and the first openly trans artist to get high-profile gigs on well-known Intellectual Properties, namely Jem and the Holograms, which I love, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I've never really gotten into. Like some of the artists listed at the top of this post, Sophie's work is quirky, playful, highly influenced by manga/anime, and always on just the right side of cartoony. On the Jem series, she did a favor for all women by portraying a diversity of body types, most notably making both Aja from the Holograms and Stormer from the Misfits full-figured and happy about it. She was also instrumental in having mainstream comics deal with LGBTQ issues directly, although that particular Jem issue was a controversial one even within the LGBTQ community (as discussed by Sarcasm Kid and I, at the end of the Jem thread I linked to above.)
Note that Sophie Campbell has perhaps her highest profile gig to date as the new writer/artist on Supergirl!
Yes indeed! Thanks for noting this, EDE! And since the Legion relaunch is still months away, I'll definitely buy the first few issues of Sophie's Supergirl, and follow the trades after that.
Originally Posted by Sarcasm Kid
I'd heard on Twitter that Sophie Campbell was going to work on Supergirl in 2016, but something having to do with Eddie Berganza stopped it from happening. I don't know all the details or if it's true.
What an awful person Berganza was! Hard to believe such a hateful jerk edited the entire 55 issue run of Peter David & Todd Nauck's Young Justice, which was all about love, humor, and empathy!
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am planning to commission him for something related to my fanfic
