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Crimsondude
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Since Munch is too lazy to do it 
, I figure I'd go ahead and make this thread. I'm mainly doing it for two reasons: All of the awesome Captain Marvel art appearing online, and Dennis Culver's current series of Dean Pelton art.
SOURCE YOUR POSTS
The very least provide a link back to where you found it. Unless you are a lazy fuck or the source is impossible to determine, include the artist and the site where you found it in the post.
I would greatly appreciate as this car's driver that if you have some piece on your computer and don't know who drew it or where, then use TinEye and/or Google Images to find them.
GROUPING
At some point, I will probably begin linking posts back to the OP either by character or artist (or both).
ART COLLECTIONS AND GALLERIES
If you find another art collection or gallery you like, e.g. Comics Alliance's weekly "Best Art Week Ever" posts, please feel free to link it.
Anyway, ONTO THE PICTURES!
Collection Links:
, I figure I'd go ahead and make this thread. I'm mainly doing it for two reasons: All of the awesome Captain Marvel art appearing online, and Dennis Culver's current series of Dean Pelton art.SOURCE YOUR POSTS
The very least provide a link back to where you found it. Unless you are a lazy fuck or the source is impossible to determine, include the artist and the site where you found it in the post.
I would greatly appreciate as this car's driver that if you have some piece on your computer and don't know who drew it or where, then use TinEye and/or Google Images to find them.
GROUPING
At some point, I will probably begin linking posts back to the OP either by character or artist (or both).
ART COLLECTIONS AND GALLERIES
If you find another art collection or gallery you like, e.g. Comics Alliance's weekly "Best Art Week Ever" posts, please feel free to link it.
Anyway, ONTO THE PICTURES!
Collection Links:
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Nick Roche http://nickroche.blogspot.com/2011/08/buy-me.html
is http://comicsalliance.tumblr.com/post/14285906908/morrinamarvel-punisher-by-nick-roche
a bad http://eclecticmicks.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
bad man http://eclecticmicks.blogspot.com/2012/03/dredd-hedd.html
And the best drawing he ever did, no bias whatsoever:
This was an April Fool's Joke but it should be made into a real book to apologize for Image United being so delayed:
Valerio Schiti is a guy whose work I first saw in the TMNT: Donatello one-shot, and have been keeping an eye out for future stuff ever since. He's got this really versatile style that can go from Carlo Barberi to Stuart Immonen:
He even drew a few pages following the script of Uncanny X-Force #5.1 to show his page layouts compared to Albuquerque:
Dell'Otto is an art genius
His original works all have the same weird, surrealist edge to them. Whether it's Orc Stain, the story of an arc that's a square peg that doesn't fit the round hole that is orc culture, or Won Ton Soup, his digest-sized comic about cooking and romance, set against a sci-fi backdrop.
He draws lush foliage and dense machinery with equal ease, uses clean, beautiful lines that work even without his gradient-based coloring, letters his work by hand, and embarks on strange projects like Spider-Nam, for no reason but his own enjoyment.
Also, he holds his pen with some weird death-grip.
You can enjoy more of his work at his DeviantArt, which features some of his early, unpublished comics, or his website, which he updates sporadically.
He currently releases Orc Stain through Image, on a whenever-it's-done schedule, and IDW is slated to publish his upcoming Godzilla comic.
Recommended Works
-Wonton Soup
-Orc Stain
-Murderbullets (FREE)
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but I don't like the scales on that Godzilla
I will accept that it is a faithful rendition of the classic look of Godzilla
but I just don't like them
I mean, the two primary characters are a guy who lives in a dingy little hovel eating stale food and making comics, as a way of gaining some measure of immortality, and a guy who's far from home, alone, scared, and dying. I think Stokoe, who was living in the U.S. at the time, prior to being deported back to Canada, was pouring a lot of his own insecurities and worries out onto the page, in a way I find really gripping.
That said, as a story, I can see why it'd turn some people off. It starts off as a sci-fi war comic, takes a weird left turn as it delves into the creative process of a psychopath, has what seems like a cocky self-insert character, and ultimately ends things pretty badly for the protagonist.
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Wonton Soup 2 was, in my opinion, not as good, but still a fun read with amazing art.
From Superman: Earth 1. I don't know what it is about thin outlines but I like this.
I have to say, that's the kind of palette I was really expecting to see, in a colored Scott Pilgrim.
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Nice. Source?
It's from this month's issue of Playboy.
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I don't want to be a dick about it, but I don't think it's asking too much to provide the source of the image.
Has Morrison ever written anything with Hal Jordan, though? I guess he was a bit player in Final Crisis.
/glares
Songbird by Declan Shalvey (Others in the link)
http://dontfeedthemonkeys.com/2012/03/19/flesh/
It wouldn't be Frank Cho without some T and/or A, huh?
He's a damn good artist, though.
It's interesting to see his art, when it's not in greyscale and screentone.
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Also, iFanboy has their own weekly art roundup: Sketchup.
I can't decide how I feel about all the guys coming up, who are clearly inspired by Quitely, Moebius, and Darrow. Part of me thinks it's cool, because I really love that style, with the thin line weights, exaggerated anatomy, and little pock marks everywhere.
But, seeing it everywhere, really makes it feel less special.
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EDIT: A bit too skittery, not sketchy.
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I don't see work like that in major comic books, or even in the occasional anthology. Those guys might be a big deal on the internet for a week at a time, but that style hasn't really had any mainstream (for a niche thing like comics in the US) exposure.
That's not to say these guys aren't great artists, because they are. But, their work all shares a lot of similarities and influences, that's hard to ignore.
That said, I think it'll be really interesting to look at these guys in a few years, and see how their styles have evolved. Burnham and Pitarra's current work already looks considerably different from their old stuff. Darrow, Fisher, and Quitely all seemed to be influenced by Moebius, but found their own voices, as their careers progressed.
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but
that dude you linked up there is just super ugly to me