Last votes this morning before a quick weekend break so we can cacth breathe.
Thank you for joining me today for the briefing on the state of the Classic Art Droids tourney. No one is sadder than I to have say that we are moving the 2000ad forum into Round 2 - which of course means that we can no longer consider work from outside Tharg's realm and there can be no mixing of decisions between comic companies.
So to be clear I ask all people living on the forum to do their civic duty and when voting not to come within 2 metres of any work Cam Kennedy may have done for Battle. I need to remind you all that Simon Bisley's Lobo is now entirely prohibited and must not be considered here.
I appreciate that this is very difficult for you all. But to get through this tourney we all have to pull together for one final push (before the next one) to get this voting back under control and centred entirely on work for Tharg. I will shortly hand over to Doctor We're claiming to follow the science, despite literally tens of thousands of deaths, who will talk about the Current Art Droid Tourney.
Alas we have to pick our favourite and to do so just pop the name of the art droid you'd most like to go through to the Quarter Finals, but please add anything else you'd like to say as well.
Cam Kennedy - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=CAMK)
OR
Simon 'not Jesus Redondo' Bisley - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=simonb)
This one will close and be counted on the morning of Monday 18th January
What the hell is all this? Current state of play Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys and Round 2 (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47242.0)
Who made the 32 in both tourneys?
Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47044.msg1042917#msg1042917)
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47044.msg1042893#msg1042893)
Rules for what they are worth (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47242.msg1049293#msg1049293)
Anything else just ask and I'll make something up.
Updated with Bisley info/link—IP
Colin did we already vote for Redondo, although your heading states Bisley.
Anyway does not matter my vote goes to Cam
Arh damnit - sorry folks - as you may well have guessed there's a LOT of cutting and pasting goes on in getting these votes sorted and I well and truly dropped the ball on this one. The vote is for
Cam Kennedy or SIMON BISLEY.
SORRRYYYYY and thanks to broodblik for catching my error.
Straight forward choice for me.
Bisley.
Kennedy for me
Cam.
SBT
Cam Kennedy
Yup - another vote for Cam here :)
Cam Kennedy.
Cam Kennedy.
Cam Kennedy
Cam.
I adore Kennedy's work but The Biz is The Biz: SIMON BISLEY.
Black Hole was iconic. The first book of Horned God was amazing and a game-changing moment in comics. But I never clicked with Bisley's Dredd, and Horned God later on became oddly scrappy.
Kennedy was one of those classic 2000 AD artists from that era where there was so much dynamism and great design in everything they touched. His Dredd is superb. And while I don't really care about Rogue Trooper and VCs, Kennedy's art urges me to read them again. So: Kennedy.
Cam
BIZ
No debate.
Cam Kennedy.
Bisley for me.
For "The Art of Kenny Who" alone, I would have to give my vote to Cam Kennedy.
Cam, and if we can vote for two candidates, Cam again.
Cam Kennedy
(Or punk beats metal.)
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 15 January, 2021, 10:04:31 AM
Black Hole was iconic. The first book of Horned God was amazing and a game-changing moment in comics. But I never clicked with Bisley's Dredd, and Horned God later on became oddly scrappy.
Kennedy was one of those classic 2000 AD artists from that era where there was so much dynamism and great design in everything they touched. His Dredd is superb. And while I don't really care about Rogue Trooper and VCs, Kennedy's art urges me to read them again. So: Kennedy.
This 100%, so
Cam Kennedy for me.
Kenny Who for me.
Cam Kennedy draws a top 3 Dredd IMO, and a perfect Rogue Trooper.
Cam Kennedy
I loved Bisley's work on ABC Warriors and Slaine. Brilliant era defining work. I have spent a *lot* of time doodling copies of various Bisley designs like Lobo's space penguins and the Batmobile. However, when it comes down to a choice between these two titans, I too am with Kenny Who!
Cam Kennedy's future war work in the VCs and Rogue Trooper is unsurpassed. It's gritty and fantastic. If I imagine someone getting blown up by some kind of future plasma grenade in my head right now, it's definitely drawn by Cam Kennedy. Wooomf!
His work on Dredd is absolutely first rank too. Just look at some of the awesome work in The Midnight Surfer, The Taxidermist, the legendary Kenny Who, Two Ton Tony Tubbs, and that mad story about the rumour of the gas sniffer job going at the poison gas factory. Some really definitive Mega City One imagery. I also love the bonkers loose limbed angles the various characters are always drawn at in action. Really keeps the motion going.
Actually thinking of The Taxidermist, it has one of my favourite couple of panels anywhere in the sequence where Jacob Sardini is talking to his wife and by splitting the action into two panels Kennedy gently shows us that Mrs. Sardini is with us in stuffed form only.
Two great artists, but my choice to proceed is Cam Kennedy.
I'm all about the Cam.
Cam too please!
I love Cam Kennedy - for me, his Mega City 1 is the one by which all others are measured, particularly as shown in Sunday Night Fever.
But Biz's ABC Warriors were absolutely amazing, and the Horned God just blew my mind like nothing else in the prog had ever done before.
Sorry, Cam, but it's Bisley. (I don't feel too guilty, as the Biz hasn't a hope of getting through this round anyway.)
Counting this one up in the morning so if you haven't vote yet give your fav a ndo today.
Rogue vs Slaine:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmRQ85EXsAUbygi.jpg)
vs
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b2/0e/17/b20e17cb4d61c2c46ce89b61463ae803.jpg)
The only man in the world for whom I would say I'm a Cam-boy.
Kennedy.
VOTING CLOSED
Oh we might have unearthed a dark horse here. Simon Bisley is a giant amongst fans. His Horned God for many defined the pinicale of 2000ad art. He inspired an army imitatiors, none of him really touched him at the time. It could well be argued that few have had such an influence on the art in 2000ad. Yet here asked for folks favourites while he got a number of votes the wonderful characters and energy of
Cam Kennedy
saw him comfortably through to the Quarter Finals with an as yet record number if votes.
In the previous round he had close one with Ian Gibson. Just wonder how would Gibson done against Biz
Quote from: broodblik on 18 January, 2021, 06:37:55 AM
In the previous round he had close one with Ian Gibson. Just wonder how would Gibson done against Biz
Yeah the one thing about this format is you do get let with a load of what ifs!
Hammerstein
Joe Pineapples
Ukko
Slaine
Your boy took a hell of a beating, a hell of a beating.