tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250269071385467004.post2956175427775139319..comments2024-01-23T19:26:48.882-05:00Comments on Julian Perez Conquers the Universe!: Doing Comics the Marvel Way!Julian Perezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16276143599750947248noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250269071385467004.post-91480602584437805272009-04-28T17:27:00.000-04:002009-04-28T17:27:00.000-04:00Chic Stone's inks in the first couple years of Fan...Chic Stone's inks in the first couple years of Fantastic Four gave Kirby a very, very primitive look: if Stone Age Man drew comics on the side of their walls, it'd look very much like Chic Stone over Kirby. <br /><br />In many ways, Joe Sinnott was the unsung hero of Fantastic Four: he gave the book a really dramatic finished look, a polish. No wonder they brought Sinnott back after Lee and Kirby left: he gave Fantastic Four a consistency to its look, a real glamour. <br /><br />In fact, I realize how heretical this sounds, but I only really liked Kirby's art when Sinnott did the inks: without him, Kirby had a very craggy style and his human bodies looked like soup cans and other shapes he painted faces on.<br /><br />As for Vinnie Colletta, his hackish awfulness is taken as a given and nothing could possibly be more cliche than for another person to join the throng that lambast him for his laziness, so I'll spare us both the indignity. Still, I remember hearing one story about Colletta that's worth retelling: while working on a war comic, Gil Kane took a great deal of effort in getting the details of tanks historically correct...only to have Colletta slather the whole thing in black!<br /><br />Colletta's look is just ugly: he uses black when he shouldn't, he uses thick lines and thin lines in the same exact image. Thanks to Colletta's inks, I've read JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY and MIGHTY THOR much, much less than I've read other Marvel books from the same period.<br /><br />And "refer to me as a fool?" Hey, fuck you, buddy!Julian Perezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16276143599750947248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250269071385467004.post-17530636068092833602009-04-23T16:51:00.000-04:002009-04-23T16:51:00.000-04:00Stone and Colletta did beautiful work on Kirby's p...Stone and Colletta did beautiful work on Kirby's pencils. I must refer to you as a fool, I'm afraid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com