Best artists in webcomics?

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:38 pm

Who do you consider the best ARTISTS in webcomics, and why? (This after spending an afternoon browsing the excellent DATACHASERS at http://datachasers.comicgenesis.com/ and having just sent a fan letter/request to them. In this, I DO include positioning software, etc. Excellent visual presentation, no matter how it's done. Other candidates I can think of are APPLEGEEKS at http://www.applegeeks.com/ and several others. Who do you admire, in their artistic style/visual presentation-- who does webcomics? ---Al

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:42 pm

Bah, I dont buy into this whole "best artist / worst artist" thing. I mean yes, there are good artists, and crap ones, but it comes to a point where artists end up being equally good, but one style appeals to you more than another's, but that doesn't really make one better than the other.
(This does not apply to Bill Watterson, because he is god, and I am biased)

Datachasers · Post by **Datachasers** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:13 pm

alschroeder wrote:Who do you consider the best ARTISTS in webcomics, and why? (This after spending an afternoon browsing the excellent DATACHASERS at http://datachasers.comicgenesis.com/ and having just sent a fan letter/request to them. In this, I DO include positioning software, etc. Excellent visual presentation, no matter how it's done. Other candidates I can think of are APPLEGEEKS at http://www.applegeeks.com/ and several others. Who do you admire, in their artistic style/visual presentation-- who does webcomics? ---Al

WOOT! *dances*

Well I like Applegeeks , Geek blather - hmm artists? hard to say as I more know the work rather than the artist, I everyone has a style that may be liked by others , I for one am not a big fan of stick figure strips , but there are good ones out there , and also are we talking about small strips like "plush and blood" ( good one ) or medium class ones ( as in fan base ) like geekblather or high end ones like Cool Kat Studio ( penny and aggy ) or sinfest ,

Also many strips tend to start out poor in some areas and then if they stick with it begin to improve with dramatic steps -
also ones like Dominic Deegan ( great strip , decent art ) or Alpha Shade ( fantastic art ( decent story ) there are lots of things to consider in that question , all of the ones i cited have good camera angels and panel arrangment

Paul Escobar · Post by **Paul Escobar** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:57 pm

Best art I've yet seen in a webcomic is in A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible. (It's been on hiatus since forever, but check the archives.) There are several people whose webcomic work I admire, but A Lesson... stands out: It's exceptionally well executed on all visual levels - the imaginative page layouts, the expert composition of each frame, the absolutely magnificent colours.

It also happens to be well written.

Geekblather · Post by **Geekblather** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:04 pm

Yaay Geekblather!

Purely art-wise?

I really like Thinking Ape Blues, Emma, and Penny and Aggie. The styles are really clean and consistent, but also consistently improving and getting better and better.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:20 pm

Off the top of my head, Humbug and Elfkin. There're undoubtably more but I'm at work just now and without my bookmarks.

- Joel Fagin

Datachasers · Post by **Datachasers** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:34 pm

geekblather wrote:Yaay Geekblather!

Purely art-wise?

I really like Thinking Ape Blues, Emma, and Penny and Aggie. The styles are really clean and consistent, but also consistently improving and getting better and better.

i really like the clean razor sharp lines of

GU http://www.gucomics.com/comic/?cdate=20070510
marry me http://www.marrymemovie.com/main/2007/0 ... oyfriends/
unspeakable vault http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/vvlast.html
VG cats http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=124

all of these use color , art and other tricks to put togather a very nice package

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:08 pm

Me.

Oh, wait, I don't have a webcomic. Damn.

Warofwinds · Post by **Warofwinds** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:32 pm

Hmm, Barb Jacobs of Talismen and Xylia, Humbug of Tales of Pylea, the artist of Lackadaisy, Madsniper of White Noise and Kraust ofWorld-Break, in no particular order.

Orinocou · Post by **Orinocou** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:58 pm

Hmm, well, calling someone the "best" is always a subjective statement, but for me, I think Sarah Ellerton's Inverloch boasts some damn good art (with an okay story). Sarah's work is what inspired me to finally start my own webcomic project, and is one of the reasons I chose to make the thing in color. If you're looking for a good artist, just check out the backgrounds in that comic.

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:19 pm

It seems to me that different art styles can be appropriate for or 'carry' different comics well.
The art in <a href="http://toydivision.transplantcomics.com/">Toy Division</a> and <a href="http://electric-manga.com/">Kagerou</a> are very different, but for the comics they're telling, they're both excellent.

My husband, by contrast, likes a much more simplified style to his comic art, like <a href="http://www.mousewax.com/">Mousewax</a> or <a href="http://wallyandosborne.com/">On the Rocks.</a>

Other comics with excellent art include <a href="http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/digg ... >Digger</a> and <a href="http://www.drunkduck.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/">Charby the Vampirate</a>

Corgan_dane · Post by **Corgan_dane** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:36 pm

I think Daniel B. Willingham is excellent. His work is always detailed and cluttered, but not in a bad way.

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:40 pm

corgan_dane wrote:I think Daniel B. Willingham is excellent. His work is always detailed and cluttered, but not in a bad way.

Thanks

I don't know who I would consider the best, but I really like Evan Dahm's Rice Boy. It at first looks like a very simple style, but there's lovely detail in the fantasy world the characters live in. The character themselves are very creative, too.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:48 pm

I'm a big Bob Oosterwijk fan. He displays great draftsmanship, even in his goofy little jam comics. Too bad he stopped updating.

JTigerclaw · Post by **JTigerclaw** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:58 am

I like TSL (SubLet)'s art and story alot (Check the signature above me for the comic). Also, the Alpha Shade person made me gawk in amazement. And of course Lackadaisy and Sinfest.

Oh, and sometimes Perry Bible Fellowship is needlessly awesome for the simple little joke, but it's cool.

Dr Neo Lao · Post by **Dr Neo Lao** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:33 am

Matt and Gabe White who do Gun Baby do some truly gorgeous work.

But it takes them so damn long that there is only sixteen pages up, for a comic that was started almost a year ago. That's about one page every two and a half weeks...

Jae87 · Post by **Jae87** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:34 am

The Prime of Ambition is amazing when they get an entire page colored and shaded. It's definatly one of, if not the best I've seen.

The Seraph Inn is done really well too.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:40 am

I'd have to say Fallen Angel's Used Books (FAUB) is one of the best. Yeah, there are cleaner works done, but I've seen him do his stuff - and his finished and inked products are as good in reality as his comics are good on the display. He's really amazing.

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:00 am

Nicholas Gurewitch
Kimmo Lemetti
Les McClaine
Matt Munn
Tracy J. Butler
Tom Siddell (This guy is good at everything. Even his lettering looks great).
Faith Erin Hicks
Ursula Vernon
Ryan Armand
Janine Harper
Klio (Thought I feel she needs to work on distinguishing her characters from each other more, but other than that, her work is fantastic).
Mimo
Spike
Ramon Perez
Zack Giallongo

That's all I'm listing for now, because I'm fucking tired of copying and pasting multitudes of links.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:20 am

there really are a lot of artists around here who do some fantastic work. Christwriter, Humbug, dragonmajik, Keffria, Mr. Bob, War, Stinkywigfiddle. I also happen to very much like the art of 834n, Pimpette, and BlackSparrow.

I could link all of these people's work, but I'm lazy.

and I KNOW there's people i'm forgetting, but i won't get into that.

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