Why are cape comics more stylized?They should be.
>>153531588There's plenty but they're not as common as ypu'd think they'ed be. I'm recommending you go read>Not Brand Echh!>Trencher>Megaton Man>Superlopez (if you can find it)>Wonder Warthog>Splittin' Image!>What The--?!>Weapon Brown
>>153531588Because late 90s/early00s artists hardly do art anymore. They got overrun by webcomic hacks when the publishers got cheap.
>>153532069Nice.>>153532081Damn.
>>153531588So sad the guy behind this passed away. And at such a young age, too...
>>153533941In the last decade I've noticed a spike in older men dying in their 60's. It's concerning stuff ans nobody really discusses it. Sam was a troubled soul, his bibliography reflects as much, but it was his inner torment which yielded such incredible art. I wish I'd gotten a chance to tell him what a great influence and inspiration he was on my art.
>>153535132>In the last decade I've noticed a spike in older men dying in their 60's. It's concerning stuff ans nobody really discusses it.
>>153535247I'm aware of a few different contributing factors, but you'd think more people would worry about it
>>153531588>areAREN'T
>>153531588>>153535509Someone said it best>While I'm against it I also understand why, because capeshit builds itself on this continuity, so it makes sense that fans become attached to quasi-realistic styles. When something has a massive departure it breaks their immersion. When self-contained comics have their own style there's less complaints but when it just pops up in the middle of a run it puts people off.
>>153535585Yeah, fuck shared universes.
>>153531588there is stylized...and there is "maybe wasn't a good artist all along"
>>153535755No
>>153535835Yes.
>>153535585I think that happens everywhere. I was reading about the anime Megazone 23 and when they went from cartoony to realistic when it was supposed to be Part 1 and Part 2 the directors own staff fucking hated him for it. Xenogears Part 1 and 2 did it too and people hated 2 for it.And of course most relevant of all The New Adventures of Batman redesigns.
>>153535132what concerns me is how many x'ers are biting it, starting with Cooke
>>153536958Yeah, I noticed that too. We've lost alot of big name boomers in recent years though too. Romita Sr, Neal Addams, and now Kieth himself. Time has not been kind to us.
>>153531588Who cares
It's a bummer when of all your threads, the ones with the least pertinent discussion somehow survive, and the ones you put more effort into die overnight.
>>153539126I care a little, The Maxx is a gorgeous piece of work so I wouldn't mind more artists take inspo from it
>>153541509You might appreciate the work of Vaughn Bodē then. He inspired a whole generation of boomers before dying of a drug overdose. Bakshi's even noted how big an influence his work was on Wizards, and just from the way Julie's built, I bet Sam was a fan of his too.
>>153536958Cooke was a lifelong chain smoker, that undeniably contributed to his untimely death from cancer.
>>153536547No
>>153542304>dying of a drug overdoseIt wasn't an overdose, he was into erotic asphyxiation, he David Carradine-d.
>>153542368What are the benefits of having a shared universe?
I think all the backlash against Rob Liefeld in particular, but armchair criticism, made artists worry about becoming too stylized. What people don't get is that it's never been about proportions or stlized anatomy per se, but how well you pull it off. Liefeld's art looks ugly because his linework is bad. But someone like Simon Bisley's art does similar exaggeration and looks great, because of how he renders his art and his consistency in his exaggeration. It works all within his style.
>>153542909This. Artists need to be sufficiently skilled even for stylization.
