Comments on: From the Mailbag January 8 http://comicsworthreading.com/2012/01/09/from-the-mailbag-january-8/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Sun, 19 May 2013 19:13:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: GWComics http://comicsworthreading.com/2012/01/09/from-the-mailbag-january-8/comment-page-1/#comment-124457 GWComics Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:47:30 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=24001#comment-124457 Agreed. It seems Fradon would definitely qualify. And if Jeff Smith qualifies then I’d say Jill Thompson wouldn’t be that contraversial a choice. There’s also Marie Severin. While I didn’t care at all for her work on actual superhero books, her humor work at Marvel was, IMO, rather groundbreaking. I’d say Rachel Dodson is just as deserving as Garney. As is Emma Rios.

As far as Colan goes, that was my point. He was alive and still working well into Modern Masters run. Now I can see them holding off on doing a MM on Colan if they had a special book on Colan in the works. That’s definitely a possibility.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2012/01/09/from-the-mailbag-january-8/comment-page-1/#comment-124438 Johanna Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:13:14 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=24001#comment-124438 That’s a good question. Along similar lines, I was resisting saying “27 volumes in and they haven’t found a female master yet”? As far as I know, criteria for this series is being willing to conduct a career-spanning interview and provide sketchbook art. There’s also the factor of the editors feeling that their audience will be interested in the artist (and thus buy the book), which is why so many of those covered are known for superhero comics during at least part of their career. Since Colan has sadly passed, I doubt their will be a book in this series about him. (Double-checking, they did a stand-alone volume dedicated to him, Secrets in the Shadows, now out of print).

]]> By: GWComics http://comicsworthreading.com/2012/01/09/from-the-mailbag-january-8/comment-page-1/#comment-124435 GWComics Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:06:17 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/?p=24001#comment-124435 I really enjoyed Garney and Waid’s run on Captain America, and I’m not trying to bash or minimalize Garney or his obvious talent, but what exactly is the criteria for being a modern master?

The back of the books say they’re “celebrating the lives and work of the greatest comic book artists of our time”. So where is Colan? Sienkiewicz? Starlin? Steranko?

Garney is a great artist but as good as he is I don’t think anyone would say his style was groundbreaking or pioneering or even as unique in style(I often can’t distinguish between guys like Garney, Andy Kubert and Pacheco) as most of the others selected to be MM or the ones I mentioned above. I’m happy for Garney, but kind of disappointed that we haven’t seen some others whoh are clearly more groundbreaking ahead of him.

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