ITT: Favorite comic book architecture
>>152295628Shit, anon, you can't just go shooting out the gate like that with a Moebius! But I've got a counter: I play my Schuiten card.
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>>152295628I bet someone's gonna post a fat chick as a joke
>>152296291That's new to me.
>>152295628I don’t have any good examples but I want this thread to live
>>152298160Me too, brother.
>>152298268People should remember great art.
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Requiem Vampire Knight - Resurrection
>>152298575and Wika, also by Ledroit, had to crop and downconvert the quality to fit
>>152298595Wait... those are over literal stars?
>>152298575In sanguinus gloria. >>152298595I was going to post that.
>>152298613original was 15MB so heavily downgraded to fit
>>152295628always been partial to the vision of alternate London from Scarlet Traces, it really sells the original run
>>152296889I don't have any pictures of your promiscuous mother to post anon :( the FBI took them away as evidence of serious perversion and last I heard they were passing them around and laughing like underage crackhead gangs do with your mother for pennies and compliments every night
Memories never die as long as they're kept alive.
>>152298636Dwarf stars maybe?
>>152298928nvr frgt
>>152298575>What if everywhere was a gothic cathedralremains my favourite fantasy architectural trope of all time
>>152298575HATES GREATBEST VILLAIN
I like the ogre gods. This woman is a giant but compared to the older ones she's still small
>>152299301It's eastern and not western art but the artist studied architecture in the west and it beams through every piece he makes, so I hope you'r read BLAM! by Nihei Tsutomu.
>>152299386Can't have a single thread without someone going off topic. Fuck.
>>152298575>>152299301>gothicThe Tower of the Damned
>>152300063It's kinda interesting how many of the examples so far have been Franco-Belgium in origin, with one UK comic and one American
>>152295628Love me some Gene Ha.
>>152300162They go hard on the architecture porn.
>>152300162It’s probably pretty hard to do nice architecture on a month-long deadline and twenty pages to do. Doesn’t help that nowadays the artists just trace models so architecture is the last thing on their minds
>>152300162it’s only really possible when the setting leaves contemporary American cities, which doesn’t happen very often in a lot of cape comicsasgard is maybe the most common example and even it isn’t as intricate as some of the european stuff
>>152300063It's alright. Just post stuff.
It all started with McCay.
>>152299368The gargantuan castle gradually falling into ruin is always kino. I wish I had saved the page where the giants are at dinner and you first realize the castle was built for beings many times larger than them.
>>152295628>comic book architectureMonstress has some good stuff in itNemesis the Warlock
>>152298928>>152299255nvr frgt jet fuel can't melt steel beams (which there was literally molten steel pouring out, there was video and photos of it)
>>152298636Look like planets.
Cool art anons, thank you for posting.
>>152295724That's some Boulee-grade stuff.
page 10 bump with Lewis's Spirit - Act I/
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Poor example but I've always liked Dave Cockrum's weird Richard Powers-esque biomorphic stuff.
>>152305752Look like an octopus
Cerebus is filled to the brim with detailed backgrounds and amazing architecture
>>152299368>>152303302it's the greatest tragedy that the author passed away before finishing it.
>>152303531You could at least provide some examples anon
Alex Alice
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Joris Mertens
>>152306453Sucks that basically the latest part of the story is the Petit being put into some weird pagan ritual and his love interest being taken away
>>152306265I seriously wonder why this series just has some of the most insanely good and detailed background i've seen in a comic book, from both east and west for any fags out there btw.
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>>152307941Gerhard is a skilled draftsman. The contrast with Dave's cartooning and lettering, to me, makes it really stand out. I always prefer when detailed backgrounds are entirely hand-drawn as opposed to photobashed and inked over. I have come across anons who think otherwise.
Miracleman
>>152309022The Marvel reprint
Abbadon loves his expansive cityscapes in Kill Six Billion Demons
>>152309625it's almost cheating to post it.
I dislike statuary and meaningless bric-a-brac on every surface. Complexity just for the sake of complexity.Here a future metropolis by Russ Manning. Clean skyscrapers with plenty of open space between them. If antigravity really existed, that's what cities would look like. I'd rather live there than any of those overly detailed offerings.
page 10 bump with L'Autre Monde by Rodolphe Broché and Florence Magnin
>>152303571No there isn't dumbass.
>>152311177I love both. Incidentally, Magnus is one of my favorite Silver Age comics because of the architecture. While I enjoy the classic Kirby and Ditko stuff from around that time, Manning was able to give North Am a liveable feel.
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>>152308068Who the fuck likes traced shit? Tolerates, I get, but likes it?
>>152295724I read that Schuiten story with the guy who travels to some mysterious distant city, then it turns out to be fake or something. It was beautiful to look at, but I have no idea what it was supposed to be about.
>>152309081That's actually much better than I expected for a recolouring.
>>152315117Samaris?That was the first of a series of comics but I'm pretty sure the plots of all of them were unrelated same world though.Dustin Weaver Paklis anthology has some pretty interesting architecture
>>152315117>Schuiten story with the guy who travels to some mysterious distant cityThe very first Obscure Cities story - The Walls Of Samaris.
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>>152313062Manning was incredible. And he drew everything consistently. Look at Kirby. No villain used the same super-weapon twice in a row, sometimes not in successive panels. But with Manning, the guns, the robots, the scenery, they all had the same style. He also understood perspective. In most comics, when someone appears on TV, it looks like just a hole into another room. They may be facing the camera but we, the readers, see the sides of their faces. Panel 3 of image.
>>152314537The Man with No Taste.
>>152307622inspiring.
from Satania, most of the "architecture" therein is organic but still very cool
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Megatropilis going full tilt into Arc Deco worked wellShame that Dave Taylor died though
>>152319446Was this one ever finished?
>>152319919Don't think so. Apparently they were going for six issues but only released two.
>>152320614Fuck.
LIVE!!
>>152321884Oh shit!
I like John Coulthart's approach to architecture. Nasty stuff.
>>152311177/x/ would hate you. There is such a thing as excessive ornamentation but North Am is way too sterile for the most part.I prefer the likes of Dan Spiegle's cities and up.
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>>152299386>Nihei but westernThat's just ION MUD, anon.
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>>152323424I like Spiegle too. 2nd best artist at Gold Key, after Manning. One of the few comic artists who could draw "normal" people. (I've read about artists losing out on jobs because they can only do hyper-muscular types. You ever see Jack Kirby's concept art for Spider-man? Stan recognized it was all wrong and gave the assignment to Ditko.) And Spiegle had to create new aliens, architecture, and spacecraft every month. North Am wasn't "sterile". The lowest levels are slums, full of graffiti, trash, and the uneducated and unemployed. Manning drew only one issue there, but Valiant liked it. Garish and cluttered. I'm not sure why /x/ would hate me. I had to look up what /x/ was.
>>152324238Magnus had to hide out there once or twice and as I recall, it pretty much looks more like the ground level in the Jetsons but with more foundations and dirt. The upper levels always seem to be largely lacking in "human" touches, perhaps appropriate to the premise.Every now and again /x/ has threads about the so-called tartaria and mudflood conspiracy theories, which mostly involve a lot of bitching about the replacement of older, more ornate design styles with modernist ones.
>>152323424>There is such a thing as excessive ornamentationNah, not enough of it.
>>152324942It depends on the style, like baroque and rococo can kind of get on my nerves. Otherwise I tend to agree enough is never enough.
Love this thread.
Needs more Shaun Tan.
>>152318230>Shame that Dave Taylor died thoughAnd so recently, too. A follow-up to Megatropolis would've been great. That retrofuturistic Art Deco look is to die for.
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