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02-18-2010, 06:27 PM
zuludelta
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Troynos
Take Greg Land, and others that use photo reference, there's no way they could have worked under the "marvel method".
I don't know if a preference for working from photo reference is directly related to not being able to work with the "Marvel method" or being able to convey spontaneity and dynamism in one's illustrated storytelling. Greg Land is certainly a good example of a current comic book artist who draws unnaturally stiff and posed figures (albeit very well drawn ones), but I think it has more to do with
his choice
of photo reference material, rather than the fact that he uses photo reference material: if he used stills of people caught in mid-motion rather than portraits of models in various staged poses, I think his ability to tell a story with gestures and facial and body language would improve greatly.
Conversely, there are artists who aren't known for working off of photo reference but still end up with poorly composed panels and ambiguous character silhouettes and gestures. Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane--as much as I liked their work as a kid growing up--are the prime examples of the popular 1980s/1990s artist whose florid illustration style is accompanied by a relatively underdeveloped sense of visual storytelling.
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So how many really good creators out there are working as both artist and writer?
Not very many, at least in contemporary mainstream American comics. Joe Kubert, Mike Mignola, and Kyle Baker are the first to come to mind. Maybe Sam Kieth (although his art style is an acquired taste for many). If you asked me the same question fifteen years ago, I would have also said Frank Miller and John Byrne, but they're both "off their game" these days, IMHO.
Outside of the US, I'd say Albert Uderzo, Masamune Shirow, Hiroaki Samura, and Rumiko Takahashi are my favourite writer/artists.
While I think the writer-as-an-artist/artist-as-a-writer is on the wane in North American comics, I think every aspiring or amateur comic book writer should at least learn how to draw even just simple human figures and basic props. It helps them think in "visual terms" so they can better relate their ideas to the artists they're working with... comics, first and foremost, is a visual medium, so the illustrations have to be able to convey the rudiments of a story even without dialogue.
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fogger1138
Rod Whigham also mentioned to me the extremely short time that the entire creative team often had to turn in issues for the GI Joe comic due to editorial restrictions (both Marvel's and Hasbro's) and the often-changing artist roster, as few artists wanted to work on the title.
You could really tell that Whigham was working under a killer deadline with a lot of the early GI Joe issues, even with the lead times considered. But he managed to make it work anyway, which is a real credit to his professionalism. My favourite regular GI Joe comic book artist is still Ron Wagner though (his portrayal of Outback in issue #67 remains one of my favourite illustrations of any GI Joe character), followed by Marshall Rogers and Herb Trimpe. Lee Weeks is probably my favourite single-issue guest artist (issue #107 stands out in my mind as one of the best drawn "guest artist" issues of the whole Marvel run).
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