/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4043028
>Alex Ross is a painter, he isnt a comic book artist.
I mean, there is a long history of painters in the comic book industry but that's mostly beside your point, which I agree with.

>>3865569
>I honestly prefer black and white
As previously said, read 2000AD. Some of their best work is in black and white: Judge Dredd, Nemesis the Warlock, Robo-Hunter, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog.. and as much as you hate it, you may also be interested in Zenith, which resulted from that one time 2000AD let Grant Morrison do capeshit (it's also in black and white).
>If Manga were all coloured pages I wouldn't read it.
I kinda agree but I'd kill for an Akira full color reprint; scans of it have been floating around the net for a while now and they actually remind me of Philippe Druillet (Lone Sloane) or Mike Mignola (Hellboy), both whose work you should check out. When I was that kid reading manga in the middle of Barnes & Noble I was fascinated by the watercolor/marker splash pages I'd sometimes see in-between chapters. As far as I'm concerned, Japan never saw the same kind of a painted comics renaissance as the west did dating as far back to the 1970s. There are plenty of pen & ink stuff which I appreciate, but few color. I've always wondered why; in any case you should probably skim through "The Art of Painted Comics" and broaden your horizons a little bit:

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