This helps lend an air of believability and realness to a story that is, at its heart, utterly absurd. There’s a lot of thought put into the texture and space on each panel, and Derington has a better handle on perspective and three-dimensional space than many more-seasoned artists. His work is crisp and clean without being sparse, and detailed enough to allow Way to lean away from unneeded dialog and let the art tell the story. Derington entered the second half of 2017 with an additional gig: illustrating the pitch-perfect covers for surprise smash-hit Mister Miracle. Way himself takes the writing helm, but Nick Derington (along with colorist Tamra Bonvillain) deserves much of the credit for just how well that book is doing. Nick Derington, Doom Patrol, Mister Miracle CoversĭC’s Young Animal imprint has flourished under the guidance of “curator” Gerard Way, earning the respect of both critics and readers, with flagship title Doom Patrol, in particular, breezing past initial resistance and concern that the book might somehow mar the legacy of the Grant Morrison/Richard Case heyday. Each portrait and landscape is an exercise in awe, disturbed and amazing projections of a veteran who worked alongside Jack Kirby and Moebius and remains unafraid to escort his legacy into more daring extremes. That blistering scope of attention found a new home in Lead Poisoning, a hardback collection of Darrow’s most batshit sketches sans ink or color, including concept art for The Matrix. The art doesn’t just specialize in sucker-punch character designs, but in their ballet-like fights and fully-realized backgrounds, reveling in dense detail.įoreground/background/midground all receive equal attention under the widescreen aspirations of Darrow. This entire blurb could simply list the auteur’s bizarre creations, most recently seen in Shaolin Monk: Who’ll Stop the Reign: giant pigs with weapon-pierced nipples, mind-possessing crabs, a portly zen warrior attempting to navigate this parade of absurd atrocities. I say, I screwed this one up, so whatever I do from here doesn’t really matter.” Behold the words of a man constantly at war with his own boredom, restless and compelled to transcend normalcy. “Somewhere along the line, I get this thing where I go, What the fuck? and I draw a dog crapping in the corner. “Every drawing I start looks really mundane and kind of boring,” master artist Geof Darrow explained recently in a creator chat with Brian Michael Bendis. Geof Darrow, Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop the Reign?, Lead Poisoning Alvarez’s coloring is more restrained here, but with hints of fluorescence and chaos oozing in around the edges, to suggest the subconscious that awakens on the bigger pages. Nearly as nice are the more conventionally paneled pages that come between them and tell the majority of the story. They’re perfect for a book that is, in many ways, about the joy of drawing. There’s so much to look at on these pages, which don’t bother with panels but sometimes convey time, nonetheless.
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She unfolds two-page spreads that feel like whole worlds, full of sea creatures and flowers, monsters and space things. Alvarez’s art, however, makes each page a joy to look at. The story of a little girl who finds a spooky friend who isn’t as nice as she seems is fine, but it’s been done better elsewhere (e.g. Lorena Alvarez’s Nightlights, put out by Nobrow, is one of the most beautiful books by anyone put out this year, even if it’s probably going to be overlooked in favor of more adult or mainstream material. We invite you to debate our selections on Twitter and Facebook, and to sound off on any egregious exemptions. Their styles vary from obsessively jam-packed widescreen storytelling to minimalist ink slashes and restrained color palettes-and everything in between. Looking over the whole year, we ended up replacing some extremely impressive talents to make room for others whose work came out in the latter half of 2017, or who simply flew under our radar until recently. The list below, ordered alphabetically, highlights 10 new and veteran artists who’ve impressed us throughout 2017. For every artist we might consider the “best,” you’ll find just as many fans looking for their antithesis. Photo-realism may drive some readers batty while communicating a cinematic experience to others.
Certain fans find comfort in open, colorful cartooning, while others get giddy over crammed pages of intricate ink work.
Art is subjective, and comics-a medium that allows or even encourages picking specific styles and sticking to them-invites nonstop debate over talent and skill. As we said when we published our mid-year list, ranking artists, or simply trying to choose the “best,” is a bizarre task.
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