Ugly comic book artstyle thread

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dont bully Rod!

One is a failure on the artist part, lacking the skill to do what it wants to convey. The other is any trend I don't like.

Bret Blevins, though I've come around.

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Do you have more examples? I don’t see what’s wrong.

Nothing "wrong" with it per se, but I disliked it when I was a teenager, specifically the LOTDK story IMAGES.

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JR jr used to be a great artist
Used to

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Easy

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Oh God, it hurts

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Shows how much Al Williamson brought to the table.

Oh shit. I just noticed john romita's initials are fucking jr

Ugly faces but the anatomy is fine.

Bruh...it only took me 5 years to figure it out too

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Idw man, his work on Spider-Man Blue is quite good.

Nothing will ever surpass this one in shittiness.

I know the faces will draw the most attention, but jeepers, look at how lazy that 4 is on Susan's chest.

That looks great though

Whatsa matta, user? Pushing too many pencils?

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Disliking Miller's art is the sign of a true pleb opinion

A defense of Miller:
Miller was a master of using negative space to his advantage (see that series of panels in Sin City with the Pole Dancer. the use of black and white in lieu of a detailed background lends emphasis to the character and the captivating nature of her dancing)
-the 16-panel grids in TDKR were a brilliant way of conveying exposition that could have taken up much more space. He had a really fine economy of storytelling.
-In TDKR especially he lends Batman a mythic quality through his use of exaggerated physiques, but still had a grounded quality about him. He had a nice midpoint for a while between realism and abstraction.
-Miller's values of art just aren't the same as your typical readers - his influences range more in the vein of Moebius, Toth, and Kurtzman.
-Frank Miller has a distinct visual rhythm few artists have. 16-panel and 8-panel grids, repeating motifs and imagery, big epic splash pages.
-This is more credit to his colorists, but the general two-tone coloring technique on his work makes it so minimal yet so powerful. Every splash page just pops because of the minimal color palette.

-His newer art has shifted towards a blockier, abstract, stylized nature, and while it isn't perfect, it retains a lot of the qualities that made him famous. He can still lend a one-page spread a mythic quality.

When was this "great artist" era for JRJr that people keep talking about?
His style posted has been consistent [shit] since at LEAST the early 90's.
I've seen some of his 80's work that was livable, mainly due to the inker completely reworking it back to generic house style.

Man that sucks shit

Have you seen his art though?

Fuck you Brett Blevins is amazing

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better than his current stuff but this still sucks

>Hardmode: no 2010s
The real hardmode is no 90s

Crappy.

Good.

Most cartoon stylized 90s art is.

Cute

Kino.
Cool
Crappy
Cool

This

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Ultimate FF

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Sal Buscema, specially in late 90's when they changed the colorization of some comics. You couldn't understand shit in some panels. Just go and see some spider man Clone Saga panels...

anyone remember early late 90s/ 00's DC where everyone was aping Dale Eaglesham and Howard Porter? That to me is bad comics art

>Giorno hit by Grateful Dead

Fags.
Bleh

Human Torch fucks The Thing in mid-air, missionary style ("What a revoltin' development this is!")

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Hot.

Bigger Bang

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Kino

Awful, in that typical 90s Liefeld way.
Jesus fucking Christ what is this, WHAT IS THIS? Oh god.
If the point was to draw them like a normal ugly American couple then good job.
This art seems good, the character is probably just purposefully ugly.
legitimately 10/10, stylish, dynamic, good panel flow, wonderful expressions. This is amazing.
Again incredible.
Actually likable, it's clear he's going for a style inspired by various 30s art stylings.
One of the all time best bad comic covers. Dear lord everything about it is wrong. Even the Kirby Krackle in the background looks fucking wrong.
This is and always will be the worst thing that was ever published.
Sale's art was unique, this particular panel is too much but in others (the Christmas plane scene) the Joker looks great.
Again fantastic. Only complaint is the building in the first panel.
I actually like this quite a bit for some reason.
lol
This looks like it desperately, desperately wanted to be Ashley Wood art but failed in every area.

>lol

Not lol. Liefeld.

this is just how Quietly draw everyone

He does tend to overdo it with giving everybody underlit joker faces but anybody who shares Bruce Timm's taste in breast aesthetics can't be all bad..

Ivan Reis is a shitty Neal Adams-clone. His sense of action is just pose characters in random positions making faces and draw vagaries of their powers. There's no movement to his comics. They're stiff

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This spread is a really poor illustration of the powers these characters have. What the fuck is Zatanna doing? Why is Element Woman grabbing a guy when she could do so much more? Why is Firestorm just flying away when he could do tons of cool shit here?

The depth on those arms is abysmal. It's like the hands were gonna be much bigger and he realized, so he tried to work them into the arm. But it just looks like it has no dimension

This is a typical Reis page. Lots of close-up shots of faces as a substitute for actual visual tension. Lots of cutting about as a means to illustrate the ring's travel path (to set-up the next page spread of course) [which should be cool in theory but it really just adds to the mess on these pages.]

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Speaking of people would couldn't stand, but then eventually loved, Jon Bogdanove.
When he launched "Superman - The Man of Steel" with Louise Simonson, his art looked like this.
This was at the same time that the other Superbooks had teams like Stern/Jackson Guice (Action Comics), Ordway/Grummett (Adventures of Superman), and Jurgens/Breeding on Superman.
All those books told parts of the same story, and most of the artists had similar art styles.
Bogdanove stood out as having the most unrealistic proportions possible in comparison to the other books.
Look how gigantic this Superman is...

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I like that, it's very exaggerated to the point of cartoony.

Then, around three years later, they started to let him be as cartoony as he wanted.
And it kept getting more and more cartoony until he left the title.
Here's a page from around Zero Hour in 1994

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and finally, from his last regular issue on the title in 1999.
They let him go full-cartoon, and it was great

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Am I missing something or am I just blind?
The first page you posted has weird anatomy and a bunch of unnecessary lines, then he improves by the third page. That doesn't scream "cartoon" to me.

this has great movement and action but it's less cartoony than the first page, at least for Superman. But truth be told I think I like the first page the best, but it would work best for a MAD magazine Superman ripoff more than the actual book

I like this face.

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this is fine

daredevil, spider-man
he's completely dependent on the inker

This

This looks great. You just have shit taste

Thor, Daredevil, Spider-Man, X-Men. His Marvel stuff is much better than DC.

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>Spider-Man
>JR Jr
>good.

Fuck right off. He may be the worst artist Spidey has ever had. Worse than Ramos. On par with Sal Buscema's vomit inducing run on Spectacular.

His style almost suits Daredevil, but even then he's just so fucking blocky and stiff.

>its a "frank gets the alcoholic shakes but decides to draw anyway" episode

A true trooper. To like frank Millers art is to appreciate the fact that life is suffering, you need to enter a Buddhist Zen state to get the full effect of Frank's art.

>He may be the worst artist Spidey has ever had
not even close

This looks it would work better if it wasn't colored.

Girorno?

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