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03-12-2009, 04:23 PM
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Troynos, I said I was going to stop, but just quickly- Rob Liefeld's first major work was for DC in 1988, this led to New Mutants and X-Force at Marvel by 1990, where he became quite popular, reaching "superstar" status. Andrew Wildman started work in the late 80s as well, but primarily in Britain, and didn't join GIJOE until after Liefeld was well known in the States, so around 92-93. At this time Marvel was actively trying to get all of their artists to imitate a Liefeld or Jim Lee style. They believed that was the way to sell comics. Wildman didn't start out like that, though it can and has been argued that his art was too superheroish for GIJOE, even at the beginning, but he rapidly morphed into a Liefeld/Lee mimic, which can be further seen when you examine his X-Men adventures work. It was unfortunate, because his later art doesn't compare to Lee's Liefeld's or even his own original style. The later artists were far worse I will admit.
I've seen Wildman's stuff pre-G.I.Joe and it was the same style (just not as good) and it's not a Liefeld style at all. He was definately too cartoony for G.I. Joe, not necessarily superhero-ish but definately cartoony. I believe he did Transformers before G.I. Joe and it was the same style. He was on Transformers the same time that Liefeld started on New Mutants.
Can't really call anyone a Liefeld/Lee mimic. It's either one or the other since they're pretty far apart in styles.
Haven't seen any of Wildman's work since G.I. Joe (at least not that I remember).
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