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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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Two people so far have singled out his "Creature from the Black Lagoon" for special praise -- let me be the third; his rendering of Julie Adams's character proves that his name should be enshrined among the handful of comic artists who can depict exquisite females - the Dodsons, Adam Hughes, our own JB, and the late Dave Stevens, to name a few.
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Peter Svensson
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For those who asked, Art Adams will be doing back-ups in the Hulk starting this month, with the main story drawn by Frank Cho. He should be doing the back-ups for at least three issues. We'll see how that works.
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Carmen Bernardo
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Looking back on him, I can certainly say that Art Adams had his strengths. But his inability to do a monthly title (even during what I considered to be his peak during the attempt with Monkeyman And O'Brien) diluted a lot of that. Now, I wouldn't consider him for anything other than a special project, such as an annual or a 3- or 4-issue limited series.
It's a shame, really. I really liked what he was coming up with in Monkeyman. If he had continued with it, I might've even started making regular purchases of it. At least he maintains enough of a profile (albeit as an "ape" artist) to not fall below the radar.
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Charles Valderrama
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Art Adams' best work has been when he doesn't try to lay down so much
detail- the issues he did on FANTASTIC FOUR and X-FACTOR come to mind-
but he's certainly been an inspiration to many artists in the industry.
He's the type of talent i'd like to see doing more rather than less.
-C!
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Jason Carpenter
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"I think Arthur Adams is the artist Rob Liefeld was most trying to
emulate. Adams is just a great artist and brought something new to the
form, but in a way that was still very consistent with superhero comic
book art. His art was a natural step from Byrne, Simonson and Perez."
If you talk to Rob and look at the evolution of his art from his fan days to Hawk & Dove, it was very much George Perez. When he started working with Jim Valentino, working over Jim's layouts in his early Marvel work on What If, there you actually see where his New Mutants/X-Force style came from. His style was a very much tightened up riff on Valentino's pencils.
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Jeff Siedlik
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> Or, as Mike Mignola said, "If Arthur wasn't such a flake, we wouldn't have
needed Todd McFarlane."
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I remember a McFarlane interview where he described himself as "a 2nd-rate Art Adams who can keep a monthly schedule"
Regarding the spaghetti webbing: Both Art and Todd acknowledge Mike Golden as their source for inspiration. It was a Marvel Portfolio plate with Spidey and the Defenders:
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Andy Mokler
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I'm not sure how I feel about the whole spaghetti-Spider-Man. My instinct is that it's a bad thing but it may just be getting lumped in as a pre-cursor to what Image turned the industry into. McFarlane Spider-Man leads to Spawn leads to the roaring age of speculators=the near death of comic books.
So, if that drawing was indeed a sort of inspiration for all of that...
It does make me feel less hesitant to say that Spider-Man's left leg looks really weird. Not particularly limber looking in that instance.
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John Byrne
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I don't care much for the spaghetti webbing. It has certain advantages
from an artistic viewpoint -- because it's so thick, I don't have to worry
about what it's in front of -- but it goes against the whole concept of the
webbing as established by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee. I go right back to a
"behind the scenes" page Ditko drew, showing how the webshooters
worked. The webbing was established as a slender, spidery thread. In
one image a caption told us that if it could be expanded to "an inch in
diameter" it could "hold the mighty muscled Thing a prisoner for life!"
Also seems like Parker would run out of webbing a whole lot more often,
using so much with each squirt!
Anyway -- when I do more than a single, nearly invisible thread, I try not
to go crazy with the loops and whirls.
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Paulo Pereira
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I agree. Keep it simple.
BTW, the webbing in Spider-Man's left hand kind of looks kind of like unravelled sweater fibers.
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Flavio Sapha
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Spaghetti webbing is...distracting.
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Gerry Turnbull
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Gerry Turnbull
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