| Posted: 10 November 2012 at 12:00pm | IP Logged | 9
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Of the guys who aren't dead, Steve Rude is up there. Also Weeks, Gammill, as mentioned. Bob McLeod. Ron Frenz definitely. Tom Yeates should be mentioned. Keith Pollard. Rich Buckler.
Tom Grummett is one of the very best superhero artists alive right now.
I also roll with Ron Wilson, who would never blow your skirts up, but was rock solid. Along the same lines, Dick Ayers. And even deeper, imo, Bob Brown. Criminally underrated.
Pablo Marcos should have been a massive star. I don't know his situation in the 1970s, maybe he was notoriously slow, but he could have rivaled some of the best in the biz on a long comic book run. And assuredly on a non-superhero comic.
Of the dead, Don Newton springs to mind. Dave Stevens. Dave Cockrum.
I guess the thing is, there are spectacular artists generationally who are ignored. They are just "off" from the flow of success enough that they never had their time. They didn't become an inseparable team with some good writer for a long period. Walt Simonson and Ron Frenz on Fantastic Four. Claremont and Don Newton on X-Men comics. Steve Gerber and Steve Rude on Superman. In the end, all these wonderful artists in this thread are beloved as much for their potential and What Could Have Been than what they actually achieved.
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