A lot of older strips looked pretty amazing.
>>150445863Absolutely
Hmmm classical beauties
>>150445863Source?
>>150445863They don't teach art like this anymore and it's a goddamned shame.
Comic strips were printed larger back in the day, too. These days they shrink the strips to fit more on the page and the artists figure why bother.
>>150446045sth by Alex Raymond most likely
it was more than wasted on sunday strips
>>150446693If the panel is from Rip Kirby, it might be John Prentice.
>>150446045Carol Day by David Wright
>>150445863Well people drawing were usually working in commercials, so their art was top notch
>>150445863drawing from reference instead of from delusion
>>150445863Women were much more plappable in those days.
One thing to keep in mind-a lot of these strips were handled by one main artist overseeing a few assistants helping him out. For sunday only strips, they often had a team working on them for bigger strips. And there was a good amount of money put into these too. Basically, you get what they(and to an extent you, since the reason they'd pay was because everyone was buying newspapers) pay for.
>>150445863
Gray Morrow>>150445863David Wright >>150449217Leonard Starr
>>150445863This is the most brutal expression of empathy I've ever seen.
>>150448104Is it weird or apt to say that newspapers and comic strips were so big, they were essentially the equivalent to the 70's-now manga industry, like how they had similar team/production structures? Also why again did Japan keep print media popular regarding news while America just jumped to TV and never looked back? Was it because of CNN and 24 hour news cycle?
>>150445863Neal Adams came from that field too.
>>150445863Wow Looks like manga.
>>150451805Japan has been about the only holdout regarding all physical media. There's been a bump from younger people discovering vinyl, cassettes and compact discs over here, but who knows if it will just be a fad or whether they retain a lifetime appreciation for the formats. The move to digital, faster internet speeds and smart phones providing 24/7 access has killed most interest in the printed page. Going back to Japan, and trying to not go on to the ever present rage fest of east vs west, I think most anons here overlook the cultural differences. Figure King is a toy and hobby magazine that is still in print in Japan. A japanese person pretty much said "fuck off and buy your own" to a western fan, when Japanese dude was asked to post more pages apart from a page that he uploaded to Twatter. Since most westerners don't speak or read Japanese, they won't buy an issue if someone uploads scans of the segments they want. Not a surprise that CD sales began to drop off at the literal turn of the century, just as faster speeds further enabled peer to peer sharing. Not their fault for being young, but anons also don't know there were more books related to strips and cartooning than actual comics in libraries, 20-25 years ago. Couldn't even find the heavy hitters like DKR and Watchmen back then at our central library with 8 floors. People will say how great the 90s were but most of their actions contributed to tossing away every vestige of prior decades; often in pursuit of short term monetary gain. And here we are.
>>150453844DAMN.
>>150451805Japanese commute a lot.
>>150449217
Even when it's just a basic filter. Something very appealing about the style.
For a look inside the world of "photo-realistic" comic artists, read https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-County-Father-Friends-Make-Believe/dp/0374298556All those artists lived fairly close together in Connecticut and this book is by the son of John Cullen Murphy, who did "Big Ben Bolt" and then "Prince Valiant".
>>150453844I never stopped buying print and DVD and I’ve recently gone back to buying CDs. I got tired of browsing fatigue.
>>150445863Terry and the pirates had cool art, especially later on in it's run
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>>150446045Carol day
>>150446693Alex Raymond is just next level
>>150453216in what way?
>>150454262Yeah, they're stuck in a train with nothing to do during the trip.
>>150445863And all it amounted to was making Roy Lichtenstein famous
>>150459104Which comic strips did he lift from
>>150459127Irv Novick was one, but he drew comic books..
>>150456558Strange Death of Alex Raymond is another one worth checking out if you're interested in strip history.
>>150460848I should buy this already.
>>150459104He just made shittier versions of the panels he copied.
>>150456206>He
>>150451805Reading in mass transit you use to go to school and work is very significant aspect of Japanese culture. That is the opposite of America where you have to drive a car everywhere
>>150458915That is in black and white.
>>150445863remember that america had more comic genres than superhero, once upon a time>>150462011might be damian grey
>>150462627Yeah, if you wanted to read different genre you pretty much had to find non american comics to read.
>>150463426Not really. Pretty much every non-Big two publisher is doing non-superhero books.
>>150463548but the first thing you think of with western comics is superheroes. we used to have romance comics, horror comics and all sorts.that's what watchman was making fun of, with how every comic book in that universe was about pirates.
>>150463727>but the first thing you think of with western comics is superheroes.Maybe "American" comics. You likely aren't Japanese peasant from the 1800s who only knows of the west as a vague foreign place. the whole "western" world isn't some abstract concept to you, no one thinks of European comics being superheroes.And either way, you really don't need to look far to find non-cape American comics.
>>150464184All westerners are Dutch speaking people.
>>150462603Retard
