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Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 02 April 2020 at 11:57am | IP Logged | 1
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When you did Spider-Man: Chapter One and Blood of the Demon, did you consciously address the question to yourself of how much to emulate Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby in your artwork? (Maybe that's 2 questions?)
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John Byrne
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Posted: 02 April 2020 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | 2
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Since Kirby and Ditko were already major influences, I had but to go with the flow!
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Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 02 April 2020 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | 3
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That sounds fun!
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Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 02 April 2020 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | 4
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This is one image that brought this question to mind. It makes me see STEVE DITKO + NEAL ADAMS + JACK KIRBY + practice, practice, practice = JOHN BYRNE.
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Adam Schulman Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 02 April 2020 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | 5
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I read somewhere that JB saw his art as "laid out by Ditko, outlined by Kirby, finished by Adams," or something like that. I probably have the order wrong.
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Nathan Greno Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 03 April 2020 at 9:35am | IP Logged | 6
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What does “outlined by” even mean??
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 28 July 2004 Location: United States Posts: 30897
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Posted: 03 April 2020 at 10:18am | IP Logged | 7
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That's probably my favorite image of Spider-Man ever.
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Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 8030
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Posted: 03 April 2020 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | 8
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GENERATIONS was a masterful display of channeling other artists' styles yet clearly still saying "Byrne".
I wish I got to see some pencils of the ENEMY ACE story. Inker Adam Kubert was fully emulating his dad's style at the time, so I've wondered if JB steered in that direction in the pencils as well.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 03 April 2020 at 1:44pm
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John Byrne
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Posted: 03 April 2020 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | 9
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Just barely. I depended on Adam to supply the look I wanted.
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Joe Hollon Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 03 April 2020 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | 10
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That Spider-Man image is fantastic. I agree with the Ditko/Adams hybrid description.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 03 April 2020 at 1:26pm | IP Logged | 11
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That’s my personal favorite of all my drawings of Spider-Man. But if I could borrow a time machine, I’d like to go back and tell myself to raise and foreshorten the middle finger of the right hand. As is, it looks like a displaced thumb.
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Brennan Voboril Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 03 April 2020 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | 12
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I remember when I first saw that image. It was so dead-on the money. In my mind I could see Spider-Man climbing up the side of the building.
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