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>GOD TIER (The Big 5)
Moebius, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Winsor McCay, Sergio Toppi
>HIGH TIER
Alex Ross, Juan Giménez, Barry Windsor-Smith, Bill Sienkiewicz, Hugo Pratt, Enki Bilal, Dave McKean, Bruce Timm, Arthur Adams, Walter Simonson, Simon Bisley, Mike Mignola, P. Craig Russell, Bill Watterson, Al Williamson
>GOOD TIER
Philippe Druillet, Jean Claude Mezieres, Juanjo Guarnido, Hergé, Steve Dikto, Frank Miller, Neal Adams, John Byrne, Sam Kieth, Will Eisner, Tim Sale, James Stokoe, Mark Schultz, Charles M. Schulz, Jeff Smith, Joe Mad, Kevin O'Neill, John Buscema, Adam Warren, Carlos Meglia, Jamie Hewlett, Darwyn Cooke
>OK TIER
Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Andy Kubert, Joe Kubert, Frank Cho, Adam Hughes, Dan Mora, Jorge Jimenez, Sal Buscema, Colleen Doran, Brian Bolland, James Harren, Daniel Warren Johnson, Jae Lee, Daniel Clowes, Evan Dorkin, Dave Sim/Gerhard, Kelley Jones, Dave Cockrum, Paul Smith, Erik Larsen, Sana Takeda, Tradd Moore, Bryan Talbot, Carlos Ezquerra
>LOW TIER
Steven McNiven, Bryan Hitch, Darick Robertson, Steve Dillon, Jamie McKelvie, Fiona Staples, Pia Guerra, John Romita Jr., Humberto Ramos, J. Scott Campbell, Skottie Young, Shawn McManus, Mark Buckingham, Ethan Van Sciver
>SHIT TIER
Rob Liefeld, Salvador Larrocca, Erica Henderson, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Zerocalcare
>GREG LAND TIER
Greg Land

Let me know if I'm missing anyone.
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>>153404554
What about Shane Glines?
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>>153404554
What makes Todd McFarlane just OK tier?
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>>153404825
Good tier
Kinda too derivative of Bruce Timm and Darwyn Cooke but still really nice to look at
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>>153404852
His style is too much of a product of it's time despite his unique design sense and his draftmanship isn't really that good
Nemesis The Warlock and Marshal Law era O'Neill executes a similar exaggerated edgy shape-heavy art style better imo
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You forgot Frank Quitely. I’d put Daniel Warren Johnson higher his stuff is awesome.
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>>153404554
Alessandro Barbucci, for Sky Doll, Lord of Burger, Ekho, and original creator of W.I.T.C.H. with Barbara Canepa
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>>153404554
Olivier Ledroit, for Requiem Vampire Knight, Wika and others
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>>153404554
Alex Alice, for Castle in the Stars, Siegfried, and others
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>>153404554
Robin Recht, for the Conan adaptation The Frost Giant's Daughter, Michael Moorcock's Elric Vol. 1: The Ruby Throne, and others
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>>153404554
That's a good list.
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>>153404554
>Moebius

Its wild to me that Moebius heavily inspired so much pop culture like Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, Akira, The Matrix, 5th Elemebt and so much more shit I grew up with that I had no idea about until recently and no one ever really talks about it.
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>>153404554
>No Carlos Nine nor Alberto Breccia,
>That hack Kirby in God tier.
Troll thread
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>>153404554
Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri - for Druuna
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>>153409749
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>>153407751
Dudes in the back lookin like a mix between Bing Bong and the Lion King hyenas
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>>153404554
Frank Miller was a good storyteller but a mediocre artist, should be in OK Tier. Neal Adams belongs in High Tier with David Mazzucchelli and old artists like Wally Wood, Bernard Krigstein, Gray Morrow, Alex Raymond, and Leonard Starr.
Jack Kirby and Sergio Toppi should be bumped down to High Tier.
Steve Dillon should be in OK Tier. Dave Sim/Gerhard, Brian Bolland, and James Harren should be in Good Tier.
Alex Toth and Alberto Breccia in God Tier.

I'll think of more in a bit.
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>>153404554
Bryan Lee O'Malley should be in OK TIER. I don't like his work either, but come on.
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>>153413112
Prove your point with a convincing example. He knows how to stylize but when he deviates there's plenty of weak points in his art. He's like Raina Telgemeier - good at what they do but lacking true technical skill.
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>>153409749
>>153409765
Wasn’t this mostly porn?
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>>153408079
How did moebius inspire matrix?
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>>153413508
I think he meant Blade Runner.
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>>153404554
Eisner belongs in high tier, as does, Colan, Buscema, Miller and Byrne.

You objectively cannot have the, any lower. Frankly I’d have cooke and sale there.

Mckean doesn’t belong that high at all. Hes not even better than a few of your good tier guys. Romita jr is rated far too low.


Janin, Gerads, Christian ward and Travis Moore belong on Greg land tier
Guillem March, Gorman Parlov, and Carlos Pacheco should be in good tier.

Honestly not a very good ranking at all.
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>>153413362
I've read all of Druuna and it's maybe 15% porn. It has a whole dystopic sci-fi plot about a generation ship lost in space and struggling to contain a plague outbreak among the passengers.
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>>153414074
>high tier
>Miller and Byrne.
No.
Your ranking isn't any better.
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>>153404554
>GOD TIER (The Big 5)
No opinion on Toppi, Moebius is placed well. I would move Frazetta and McCay down to High Tier. Maybe even Kirby, though I am a huge fan of his.
Frazetta could do three things very well, but if you ever look through his portfolio, it quickly becomes a grind.
McCay's political cartoons are excellent, his dream sequences inventive, but I personally wouldn't consider him god tier. His strips are a chore to read in terms of layout, lettering, "plot".
>actual God Tier
Hal Foster. In the newspapers and the comic book, he has no competitors. Phenomenal draftsmanship, the definition of realism in comic art. Multiple artists on your list - Kirby, Frazetta, Williamson, Kubert - either were influenced by him or kept his art in their swipes. Any random page of Prince Valiant blows most of these guys out of the water. Fantastic layouts and actually readable pages.
Alex Toth should also be in God Tier. He knew how to tell a story through art.
Wally Wood should be somewhere on the list, I'd say High. Solid artist, beautiful inker (his work on Kirby's Sky Masters is particularly breathtaking).
Bernie Wrightson for High Tier.
Geo. Herriman for High.
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Enrico Marini deserves to be fairly high up on the list.
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>>153413875
How the fuck do you mix the matrix with blade runner?
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Alex Toth should be in God tier, add Jordi Bernet to Good tier, and bump Joe Kubert to Good tier or high tier.
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>>153414417
Looks like Good Tier.
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>>153404554
Timm should be lower and Druillet should be higher. Any man capable of adapting Salammbo is beyond the land of peasantries.
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>>153404554
Too many to name.
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>>153416487
just name 10 more
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>>153404554
What about James Jean, Reiki Murakami, Kamome Shirahama, Frank Cho, and Frank Miller?
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>>153409749
This reminds me: Georges Lévis, despite being perverted, is a rather decent artist.
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>>153404554
Jack Hamm , Don Decarlo, and Kerascoet?
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Alex Raymond for High, Stan Sakai for Good.
>>153404554
Watterson should also go down a notch. I know C&H is baby's first comic strip but he isn't that good.
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>>153414147
You’re insane if you think mignola, mckean, simonson or really most of the names in the tier are a better artist than either.
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>>153414417
No he doesn’t lol

Good artist but Hes not higher than sale or Cooke

The problem is OP vastly overrated some like Mignola and Mckean which makes the entire concept extremely broken
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>>153418780
You're insane if you don't.
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>>153418780
Mignola is absolutely a better artist than Miller
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>>153404554
Where would they(Carl Barks And Don Rosa) rank?
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>>153421258
Barks is god-tier. Rosa made some good fan comics.
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>>153406999
This
>>153407751
I liked him in 2008-2010.
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>>153413508
The Wachowskis commissioned concept art and told the guy to draw it like Moebius. Geof Darrows maybe?
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>>153421334
Barks is Good Tier. He's great at one thing.
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>>153404554
George Perez goes in high tier
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>>153425600
No, he's also Good Tier.
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>>153425600
That is not good art at all. Blegh.



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