/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3876073
>>3876129
I believe its a USA attitude that holds USA comics back. If you look at early manga or ligne claire, its all clean. The action is paced and the details are subtle. There’s a few artists and writers in the USA who are great at that sort of thing but they only seem to be able to get to the forefront through decades of work.
I believe that USA publishers cant get out of that dumb EXXXTREME attitude where everything needs to have aggressive black jagged shading, lurid colours, loads of screaming, huge muscles and endless fights. It’s really dumb and aims for the lowest common denominator. Even European adult comics are better than this. Even some of the most puerile and juvenile stuff like VIZ is better. I kind of think manga is sitting somewhere in between at the moment too. Some artists heavily rely on huge tits, characters that needlessly scream and even sitting at a table having a conversation seems to need 100000 action lines. It’s all surface. Not everything needs to be an action film with a million guns.
Pic related, one of the USA most important comics and probably the best ever, style wise.