Marvel
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Milo Manara is an Italian artist who gets a lot of love from indie comics fans and is a much bigger deal in Europe than the States, but among comic artists, he’s very well-regarded and he and Chris Claremont did a great one-shot called X-Women, to which this was the cover.
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I try not to post too much girly art on here, just because it quickly becomes a bottomless pit of sleaze, but I do like some of the cheesecakier comics artists and Frank Cho is definitely one of the best. Here’s his “X-Chicks” drawing from a few years back. Enjoy responsibly.
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There are a lot of cool artists associated with the X-Men, but frankly the one I like the best is and will always be Chris Bachalo. His run on Generation X is just incredibly good, and while I’m not Scott Lobdell’s biggest fan, even the talkiest stories were worth reading when Bachalo drew them. He’s
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Another Bill Sienkiewicz—Psylocke, from the first Fleer Ultra X-Men series. If you’ve ever asked yourself, “I wonder what kind of taste Marvel Comics has?”, consider that Sienkiewicz got a few spot illustrations for this set of cards, and the chases are a really absurd fisheye-perspective puzzle painting by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, the Thomases Kinkade
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And here’s another great Ross painting of the X-Men. This guy’s name gets tossed around as the greatest artist who ever lived, which I realize is annoying, but he’s not jut a photorealistic painter. He has a great sense of composition and movement, as illustrated here.
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Today it’s just straight superhero art—J. Scott Campbell’s Marvel Universe. Hooray!
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