Favourite CLASSIC art droid - SEMI FINALS - Ron Smith or Cam Kennedy

[Colin YNWA]

Does this one all come down to who is your favourite Dredd artist? ... or second favourite - we'll find out soon enough. Or do both these have so much other stuff that its about more? Let us know as you pick your favourite out of

Cam Kennedy - more info

OR

Ron Smith - more info


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 FINAL!!!!!, but please add anything else you'd like to say as well. It really helps if you use BOLD tags or otherwise make your vote clear.

This one will close and be counted on the morning of Saturday 6th February

What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys and Quarter Finals semi finals - I've not updated this - cos we know what we're doing right. There's a tiny bit more about the Semi's here but it's mainly just a post about what's coming after...

Who made the 32 in both tourneys?

Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney

Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney

Rules for what they are worth again not updated as we're getting good at this now aren't we.

Anything else just ask and I'll make something up.

[broodblik]

Cam Kennedy

[Rogue Judge]

I'm actually not sure what direction I'll vote on this one...I'll sleep on it. Two absolute favorites!

[broodblik]

I'm actually not sure what direction I'll vote on this one...I'll sleep on it. Two absolute favorites!

Rogue or Judge

[TordelBack]

Having enjoyed the mental struggles that brought us to this point in the competition, I now find myself with an Unrecoverable Paper Jam in Area 3 Please Contact Service Personnel in almost every one. Beyond all other Dredd artists, even Carlos*, Ron and Cam draw the Mega City 1 and its citizens that exist in my head. 

I really can't judge their respective completely different contributions to Dredd, they're both absolutely fundamental to how I have enjoyed the strip. For every Two-Tonne Tony Tubbs there's a Henry Ford, for every Flip Marlowe a Filmore Faro, for every King Surfer a Top Scrawler.

It can't be done.

So I'm going to move off that and instead accept that for Ron that it's only really his Dredd that I love, while Cam's Rogue, VCs, controversial Sláine covers and (stretching a point) Kenny Who?are equally dear to me.

So with a heavy heart, it's Cam Kennedy for me.



*Carlos draws my Judge Dredd, while Ron and Cam draw my Mega-City 1 - even though Carlos created the city in the first place.

[broodblik]

Ron Rogue vs Cam Rogue



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[broodblik]

Ron Dredd vs Cam Dredd



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[Trooper McFad]

Kennedy for me

[Magnetica]

Yes Ron Smith is absolutely my second favourite Dredd artist and given my favourite is already out, I'm giving him my vote.

He is supreme when it comes to depictions of the citizens of Mega City One and is synonymous with the kind of Dredd tale we just don't seem to get anymore and I really miss that.

[ming]

Ron is such a legend but I have to go with Cam here...  There are so many incredible Ron Smith Dredd stories but Cam's versatility and flair win the day for me.

Plus, this:

[abelardsnazz]

Ron Smith. So many fantastic Dredd stories.

[Bolt-01]

I can't believe how 'tough' these are.

I'm having to choose between parts of my life.

Cam Kennedy.

Damn it.

[Barrington Boots]

Ron Smith takes it for me.

[rogue69]

Cam Kennedy.

[shaolin_monkey]

Aargh!! This one makes me weep. How can I choose between the two?

After a great deal of gut wrenching soul searching back and forth across the old pre-frontal cortex, I am going to have to go with the person who consistently turned out a VAST number of Dredd stories for many years, somehow keeping them fresh all the time:

Ron Smith