Your top five artists

[wilbs518]

Kirby
Schomburg
Wood
Steranko
John Buscema

[Blue Meanie]

This should be an easy one for me:

George Perez
Jim Starlin
Neal Adams (60's/70's Neal)
Jack Kirby (60's and Early 70's Jack)
Dick Giordano

[The Toyroom]

1. George Perez
2. Curt Swan
3. Alex Ross
4. Brian Bolland
5. Jose Luis Garcia Lopez

[torgospizza]

John Severin

Good to see someone name him. That guy doesn't get nearly the props he deserves.

[Cmonster]

Simon Bisley
Simon Bisley
Simon Bisley
Simon Bisley
and...

Simon Bisley.

SC

[johnmiic]

I know I'll forget someone but off the top of my head:

Jack Kirby, John Romita Jr., John Byrne, Walt Simonson, Michael Golden

Kudos also to:

Mike Mignola, Art Adams, Steve Rude, Terry/Rachel Dodson, Paul Grist, Paul Smith, (rarely seen these days).

[jwyblejr]

I wanna be different.

Carl Barks
Bruce Timm
Art Baltazar
and two others I can't think of.

[Dark Shadow]

Michelangelo
Bernini
Caravaggio
da Vinci
Bouguereau

[ctc]

>To quote ctc hmmmmmm

To quote Random Axe quoting me; Hmmmm....

Howzabout (in no particular order):
-Tim Truman
-Brian Bolland
-Obata Takeshi
-Mike Sagara
-Yu Kinutani

Don C.

[Mego Milk]

I wanna be different.

Carl Barks
Bruce Timm
Art Baltazar
and two others I can't think of.

AW YEAH!

[madmarva]

When I think of artists, I always associate them with characters, so here's my top 10 and a list based on characters:

These guys make me consider buying the book on their name alone:

1. Neal Adams
2. George Perez
3. Brian Bolland
4. Curt Swan
5. Alex Ross
6. Gil Kane
7. John Byrne
8. Jim Aparo
9. Gary Frank
10. Garcia Lopez

By Character:
Superman — Curt Swan/Lopez/Perez/Byrne/Frank/Boring
Batman — Neal Adams/Aparo/Bolland
Green Lantern — Gil Kane/Grell/Reis/Adams
Spidey — Steve Ditko/Romita/Kane
FF — Kirby/Byrne
Thor — Kirby/Simonson/J.Buscema
X-Men – Byrne/Kirby/Adams/Cockrum
Conan — John Buscema
Captain America Byrne/ Epting/Kirby/Zeck
Hulk — Sal Buscema/Perez/McFarlane/
Justice League — Perez
Avengers – Perez/Byrne
Teen Titans — Perez

I love Lou Fine and Bernard Bailey's work from the Golden Age and Burne Hogarth, Alex Raymond and Milton Caniff's work from the comic strips of the 30s and 40s.

There's a lot of great newer artists working today and as nice as their work is, it just doesn't capture my heart like my favorite artists of my youth. I still read a lot of comics today, but I don't have the time to re-read them and pour over them over and over like I did as a kid.

[Bruce Banner]

Wow, naming only 5 is tough, so I'll have to add a few extra:

Jack Kirby
John Romita Sr
Neal Adams
John Buscema
John Byrne
George Perez
Jim Steranko
Dave Cockrum
Howard Chaykin
Carmine Infantino
Jim Aparo
Ross Andru
Jose Luis Garcia Lopez
Dick Giordano

And the legendary Frank Frazetta, and also Ralph McQuarrie for his awesome paintings and concept art.

There are a bunch of others whose work I like, too. But the list could go on for about 50 names so I'll stop there.

[bobws]

1 George Perez
2 Neal Adams
3 Mike Grell
4 Jim Aparo
5 Bob McLeod
6 Phil Jimenez
7 Art Adams
8 Adam Hughes
9 Rags Morales
10 Dick Giordano

[Falconhood]

1-Pat Broderick
2-George Perez
3-Jim Lee
4-Michael Golden
5-Gary Larson

[Earth 2 Chris]

Top 5 off the top of my head, in no particular order

Jack Kirby
George Perez
Neal Adams
Dick Sprang
Bruce Timm

Chris