I'm bouncing around the web, looking at various comic artists and the responses to same. I just have to say--after the Greg Horn section, I wanted to disinfect myself. When it looks too slutty for Emma Frost--recalibrate.
Anyway--I'm looking at this Sam Keith, and while it's deliberately stylised, I don't think that kind of stylisation has much to offer to those characters--was this title a comedy? I don't recall having read it.
And defense of this seems to be of the ilk of "I don't see why you wouldn't like it"--but maybe I just read that wrong. I have to have read that wrong. Because...it's hideous. And not in the Sienkiewicz way, which is my bar for non-representative comic art.
I think maybe in the second one he is deliberately parodying Leifeld? That was kind of the point of AzBats.
85, though. Good long run.
Joe Kubert, RIP.
If I lived to 85 with his legacy I'd die a happy man.
I loved his art so much. Easily my favorite of the classic era DC artists.
Big fan of his Tarzan and Enemy Ace and Sgt. Rock stories.
Nobody show this to Scrappy: How tacky is DC?
Ah, they saw sense.
If you didn't click on the link in time, the obit used to say:
"We are saddened to learn of the death of our colleague and friend Joe Kubert. An absolute legend in the industry, his legacy will not only live on with his sons, but with the many artists who have passed through the storied halls of his celebrated school. His latest work on BEFORE WATCHMEN: NITE OWL was among his best, and we are so honored to have worked side-by-side with such an unforgettable force in both comics and in life." - DC Entertainment Executive Team
I was confused, ita. The quote you just posted IS tacky.
Oh, okay, yeah, I was really confused too.
It's better than awful that they listened to feedback and took that shameless shill down. I mean, there's no question that they couldn't spit in their virtual writers room without hitting someone who would have a tearjerking Kubert story to tell.
I shudder to think that someone who knew him personally might have written or okayed that. It's awful, and it shouldn't take outraged fans to get them to realise it.