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Michael Hogan Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2052
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Posted: 17 February 2020 at 6:38pm | IP Logged | 1
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Happy 100th birthday to the late, great Curt Swan.
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Eric Smearman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 September 2006 Location: United States Posts: 5796
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Posted: 17 February 2020 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | 2
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Seconded!
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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132135
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Posted: 18 February 2020 at 6:28am | IP Logged | 3
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A superb draughtsman. A perfect encapsulation of "SIiver Age" DC, solid and realistic.
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John Young Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 22 August 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3145
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Posted: 18 February 2020 at 6:43am | IP Logged | 4
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When I think of Superman, his art pops into my head first. Happy Birthday.
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Gundars Berzins Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 March 2012 Location: United States Posts: 1559
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Posted: 18 February 2020 at 8:11am | IP Logged | 5
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He's the first Superman artist I grew up with. What a treat.
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Petter Myhr Ness Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 July 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 3813
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Posted: 18 February 2020 at 11:57am | IP Logged | 6
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When I started reading Superman comics, Swan was the regular artist. For me he set the standard when it comes to Superman.
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Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 January 2014 Location: United States Posts: 4789
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Posted: 18 February 2020 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | 7
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I've seen some of his pre-Superman art. He WAS the standard, and gold standard at that. I think I can safely say that I have NEVER looked at a Curt Swan drawing and wondered for an instant what I was looking at.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 February 2020 at 7:23am | IP Logged | 8
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I began my Superman reading when Wayne Boring was the primary artist, but the very first Superman book I had--a literal book, hardcover--was mostly Jimmy Olsen stories penciled by Curt. Our "association" went back a long way!
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 12406
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Posted: 19 February 2020 at 7:46am | IP Logged | 9
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Curt Swan was my first Superman artist. But when I eventually saw Wayne Boring's earlier work, I was very pleased to see that Mr. Swan, particularly when he took over the character, didn't deviate much from Mr. Boring's model.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 February 2020 at 8:04am | IP Logged | 10
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Ah, the days when the characters were more important than the artists drawing them! Long passed by the time I came along.
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Tim O Neill Byrne Robotics Security
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 10918
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JB, what was it like working with Curt Swan on THE EARTH STEALERS?
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Adam Schulman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 22 July 2017 Posts: 1717
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Posted: 21 February 2020 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | 12
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The guy drew Superman comics for THIRTY YEARS.
Try to imagine someone doing that today. With any one character or team. Impossible. The Big Two just don't "play like that" anymore.
Swan drew Superman and his supporting cast for so long, and so "on-model," that it was almost like he was drawing real people.
I admit that his style didn't fully adapt to the reshaping of superhero comic art by Jack Kirby or Neal Adams. But with the right inker -- especially Al Williamson -- it had just enough dynamism to not seem "old."
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