Who is his equivalent in the comic industry?
Who is his equivalent in the comic industry?
Christopher James
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Easton Myers
Tom King
Easton Ortiz
Fletcher hanks
Xavier Parker
Steranko
Kayden Diaz
No one.
Levi Thompson
No for a million reasons
Hanks was an outsider artist, brilliant in his eccentricities and his raw amateur technique. Lynch is eccentric and certainly unique, but anything but amateur. He's pretty much a master.
Steranko wears his influences too openly, he's wonderful but it can be boiled down so easily to just Kirby meets Dali meets 60's pop art.
Bernie Wrightson or Steve Ditko are the best answers I have now. All were outsiders but were obsessive craftsmen who became masters of a style that was completely unique to them. They all also proudly wear their influences but are able recontextualize them in ways that makes them feel fresh (Wrightson with Frazetta, Diko with pulp detective comics and Eisner, Lynch with Billy Wilder, Hitchcok and Mario Bava)
Jace Diaz
Jim Woodring.
Jaxson Foster
Grant Morrison
Alexander Russell
But David Lynch also makes comics
Soooo.... the equivalent of David Lynch is David Lynch
Sebastian Adams
I've never read a comic book where I didn't understand what was going on, so there is no equivalent to him in the world of comics.
Jose Butler
This
Gabriel Nelson
Ted McKeever maybe? Similar themes, tone, and he's an auteur (in the comics sense)
I've also seen Charles Burns and Daniel Clowes compared to Lynch but I'm not well versed enough in either of their works to judge
Levi Bailey
Biologic Show era Al Columbia
Nicholas Jackson
Charles Burns
Christian Davis
Grayson Mitchell
Probably the very closest equivalent, but even he falls short.
Lynch is like Ligotti. He's a product all his own.
Cooper Anderson
Ligotti has clear influences from Lovecraft, Poe, Nabokov and pessimistic philosophy. Lynch mediates for 4 hours a day and pulls images out of his ass and that's how he creates his movies. He's not even a huge film nerd. He was a painter going into film school and he still paints.
Parker Harris
Bullshit. Like the other user said, Lynch's influences are obvious. Hitchcock, Corman's Poe movies, Mario Bava, Sunset Blvd, etc.
Jack Powell
YOU CANT READ A COMIC BOOK ON YOUR FUCKING PHONE! GET REAL!
Jace Perez
Daniel Clowes maybe?
Henry Allen
What is this?
Ian Harris
Alan Moore and Frank Miller have done some weird stories like David Lynch but I can't think of any authors that consistently make stuff the way that Lynch does
Gavin Clark
Lynch's art for Eraserhead.
Bentley Russell
It doesn't really stand up to consideration, but the name that came into my head immediately was Paul Pope.
Brody Cruz
these/thread
Elijah Jenkins
Only Lynchian thing Clowes did was Like a Velvet Glove
Hudson Nelson
Hudson Young
You anons realize OP isn't asking for works that remind you of Lynch right?
Ian Richardson
David Mack?
Julian Gomez
Hey anons, why do you like the work of Lynch?
I really tried to like Eraserhead and Twin Peaks, given its popularity with weirdos that like the X files, Fringe, Twilight Zone and such type of content, but I found his work to be pretentious and try-hard to become postmodern art, kind of like the Morrissey of movie directors, but not that unsympathetic. So, I would really like to hear your opinion of what makes you like his work.
Julian Nelson
Me. Just you wait.
William Cook
>Twin Peaks
People like the whole dreamy-yet-spooky murder mystery thing. The setting and nuclear family meets late '80s fashion sense also appeals to people.
Having a cast full of highly attractive people like Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, pre-plastic surgery Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Madchen Amick etc. also helps.
Andrew Richardson
Nathaniel Lewis
Thanks, I really dropped the ball in not mentioning the soundtrack is a pro in TP, I knew I was missing something.
And that David Bowie cameo is what made me watch the series.
Robert Jones
fuck you for making an intelligent answer and generally increasing the quality of this board. post fetish art and complain about calarts like the rest of us, fag!
Jaxon Hernandez
To be honest it's the most lynchian work not done by Lynch I've ever came across.
Christopher Hughes
Morrison, both great, entry level but still casual filters.
Carter Johnson
Is this Alfred from Gotham?
Easton Harris
>Bruce is the baby from Eraserhead
That explains everything
Cameron Sanchez
Can do!
DAE wanna photoshop pictures of Brie Larson to make her look like a smelly doo doo head with me?
Jeremiah Hill
Sam Kieth
Michael Turner
>pretentious and try-hard to become postmodern art,
The brilliance of Lynch is that he is one of the least pretentious and least tryhard filmmakers in history. He is completely authentic, he's just a strange person.
Brayden Wilson
Cameron Adams
Yeah. Lynch is usually Sesame Street levels of basic with what he wants to show. He just likes weird variety in the ways he shows it.
And that's really gratifying, because media got cynical and overly endulgent over the years with giving people the basic bitch version of what they want. And Lynch gives people what HE wants.
Jason Sullivan
Well that's the thing, he sorta came in before there was the market for pseudo intellectual shit. When Eraserhead first came out it was honestly pretty disliked by everyone and wasn't seen as art till a couple years later given the power of hindsight. And given the history behind the film and the long process it took to make it, its very clear it was a dream/passion project he actually deeply cared about. I totally understand how it can be seen as pretentious art house garbage, but I feel it has enough merits to back it up, mainly in the field of mood and atmosphere. Lynch is able to create moods, settings, and atmospheres unlike any other film maker, and there's a lot of appeal in that. Eraserhead and Twin Peaks feel other worldly in their style and the mood they project. I guess a pretty big part of it would have to be "historical" context in where they fall in TV and film, cause things like them weren't really done at the time.
Idk, I'm probably doing a pretty poor job selling you on all this. But Eraserhead is one of my favorite movies and I wish I could share that with ya.
Also: I feel if it were a really pretentious art house film, the symbolism and meaning would be super blatant and obvious, and I guess you could argue it is, but every time I watch it I take home a different meaning to different aspects, and every time I talk to someone about Eraserhead, they always seem to have a different interpretation than I do. To me that's a sign of quality.