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Started by AlexF, 23 March, 2015, 11:19:36 AM

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Hawkmumbler

Boo Cook is a real gem and one of the biggest diamonds in the 2000AD creative force. Harry Kipling has to be one of the best visual comedies in the prog and Blunt is shaping up to be a cracking Dredd world series, beautiful stuff!

AlexF

You're so right!

Onwards we must go. Time again, sadly, for another entry of a hero gone before his time, Steve Moore.
http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/no-72-steve-moore-rip.html

If I'm honest, one of the reasons I actually pushed myself to start this blog was to try to get some appreciation for 2000AD creators up on the internet before they became a string of obituaries.

AlexF

Time for more obscene gushing on my part, as we hit one of my all-time favourite artists:
John Ridgway

http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/no-73-john-ridgway.html

Hawkmumbler

Excuse me, that's John 'bloody hell can he draw good' Ridgway, thank you!

A personal favorite of mine as well, lovely atmospheric art.

AlexF


Colin YNWA

I did it, I did it I caught up. Sorry for my slack attitude towards your great blog. If its any consolation I'm still to find time to listen to one of Eammon's podcasts and that's something I'm very excited about. I must stop reading all those comics and read more things about those comics...

...I digress what motivated me to put done my funny books and make a conserted effort to catch up wasn't just your brilliance but that of Frazer Irving. One of the most under-rated artists the Galxies Greatest has ever seen. And when I say under-rated I mean mainly by me. Ask me to do a top ten 2000ad artist list and he probably won't appear. Ask me to name 5 artists whose work I prefer to his and I'd struggle. Its just he seems to slip my mind.

Possibly its 'cos he's so deceptive as an artist. As you say there's some many lines BUT somehow he never looks fiddly or fussy. He somehow combines all this effort and inksmithery (I think its a word, I should check) and make everything look vrey stark and simple. He's a perfect 1 on the Lee scale (a scale based on the number of lines you draw divided by the impact of the art - named after the very worse of fiddly artists Jim Lee, so many lines, so little impact!). Every, I mean every line is used to perfect effect so that when you look at it you don't notice. It all blends into perfect, simple expression and atmosphere. As though each line is borne perfectly and immaculately from the last.

Just wonderful.

AlexF

In my head Irving was highly rated at the time he was ion the Prog, but I agree he's sort of slipped out of the unspoken pantheon of all-time greats. Mind you, it's a bulging pantheon.

Here's more fodder for that dilemma of 'shoudl I read comics, or read waffle about comics'?

It's the endlessly imaginative Kek-W
http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/no-75-kek-w.html

AlexF

Immediately after writing that comment about Frazer Irving being 'forgotten', I get the latest Thrill-Mail into my inbox - featuring a massive pic of a new T-Shirt based on Irving's Judge Death cover! Tharg doesn't forget!

AlexF

It's the one you've all been waiting for:
1990s favourite droid, Michael Fleisher
http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/no-76-michael-fleisher.html

Hawkmumbler

Quote from: AlexF on 29 July, 2016, 12:44:05 PM
It's the one you've all been waiting for:
1990s favourite droid, Michael Fleisher
http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/no-76-michael-fleisher.html
My initial reaction was a resounding "WHO?" only to read your, once again excellent article and discover I had read and LOVED his turns on Rogue Trooper. Good stuff indeed!

I, Cosh

Quote from: AlexF on 29 July, 2016, 12:44:05 PM
It's the one you've all been waiting for:
1990s favourite droid, Michael Fleisher

That was a nice, considered take on the chap but I do have to take issue with one point. I can certainly think of at least one with a worse reputation...
Quote...perhaps the comic's least fondly-remembered creator droid...
We never really die.

Hawkmumbler

Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 29 July, 2016, 01:04:16 PM
Quote from: AlexF on 29 July, 2016, 12:44:05 PM
It's the one you've all been waiting for:
1990s favourite droid, Michael Fleisher
http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/no-76-michael-fleisher.html
My initial reaction was a resounding "WHO?" only to read your, once again excellent article and discover I had read and LOVED his turns on Rogue Trooper. Good stuff indeed!
Scratch this, it wasn't a Fleicher Trooper stroy I was thinking off but a GRennie one by mistake. DOH!

Colin YNWA

Quote from: The Cosh on 29 July, 2016, 01:12:20 PM
That was a nice, considered take on the chap but I do have to take issue with one point. I can certainly think of at least one with a worse reputation...
Quote...perhaps the comic's least fondly-remembered creator droid...

Oh Gerry Finley-Day wasn't that bad!

AlexF

Nothing controversial about the latest hero, and one of Tharg's most prolific recently-constructed droids, too:

The Dredd-killer himself, Michael Carroll
http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/no-77-michael-carroll.html

Mike Carroll

Cool! Nice one, Alex - thanks! I'm chuffed to be included on the blog, though I'm not sure I've earned my place yet!

Cheers,
Mike