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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 05 February 2021 at 11:07am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

My favorite part of today's page is Quicksilver slamming into the console... or whatever that is. There's something about the way his left arm is drawn that I really dig.
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Probably. I am an artistic sponge.
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interesting....and ironically, no one seems capable of mimicking you!


This does stump me. Why wasn't there a whole generation of artists emulating JB? Did I miss it?

Also:  Great page today.  Serious dynamics!


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While it is generally easy enough to spot a “John Byrne page”—as seen by the number of people who spotted me ghosting FUNKY WINKERBEAN—stylistically I jump around too much for anyone to really pin it down. Even Vic Bridges, who came so close some people even argued when I said his work was not mine, was mimicking my style of a decade earlier.
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This Magneto is a real piece of work. Yikes. I like my villains this way, but only if they're fictional!
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If people haven't seen artists who have been influenced by JB working in comics,  they haven't looked very far. There are outright imitators, as I mentioned,  and others who have touches here and there. Especially those of us that were in the generation that grew up on his work. His influence is definitely out there, and it amazes me that some here suggest otherwise.

Are you looking for outright swipes or something to convince you?

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Professional comic book artists who were influenced by John Byrne (and have elements of his style either in early works of their own, or throughout their career):

Alan Davis (Yes, his early stuff have traces of JB's style*, and he admits that JB was an influence to his art)

Mike Parobek (Yep, though his work work very cartoony, the Byrne influence was present).

Paul Pelletier

Dale Keown (Another, like Alan Davis, whose early work reflected the influence more strongly. Much like the way JB's earliest work had that Neal Adams vibe).

Vic Bridges

Anthony Castrillo

The original Image boys (Yes, they were all influenced by JB. Todd McFarlane regularly posts early amateur work of his online that often contains his fannish swipes of JB's work. Rob Liefeld continued to swipe Byrne well into his success as an artist. Jim Lee, Erik Larsen, and Marc Silvestri all have cited JB as an influence.

-- And there are more.

And as with any generation of artists, those influenced and that become successful influence another generation themselves so that later generations are technically absorbing some of that earlier artists' influence indirectly through the later artists' work.


*I find it interesting that in past months, whenever I have shared early artwork by JB, more than one person has remarked how it looks almost like early Alan Davis. So, aside from the fact that Davis never has denied the influence, others apparently see it on their own.





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Wallace Sellars
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I'm still hoping to see JB and Alan Davis work on something together some day.
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I'd personally hate a collaboration between JB and Alan Davis because whoever draws it, I'be wanting to see the other's work. 
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I feel like one of JB's biggest contributions to the artform is "curves", whether it's used on musculature, the female form, or even just shapes of objects. This is more of a subliminal contribution, I'll admit. It also informs his use of body language to make that feel more natural. There's just something about his approach that's pleasing to the eye, IMO - and while there are have been artists that have been able to convey the more overt elements of his style (as Matt accurately lists above), most of them miss this part.
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JB is certainly flexing some powerful artistic muscles here on ELSEWHEN.
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...the generation that grew up on his work...

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Pass the Geritol!!

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Or even better, visit St. Augustine FLA. We have the fountain of youth.
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