Your Favorite or Most Influential Artists

[wolflu66]

Who are your favorite artists or those who have inspired and influenced you the most?

Why not share and recommend them with everyone? Artists from both contemporary and past eras are welcome.

Here are my favorite artists:

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Alphonse Mucha(1860-1939)
Gustav Klimt(1862-1918)

muraoka_kimio(村岡貴美男)
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Morikawa Kotomi(森川琴美)
https://x.com/koto_nihonga60

Chen Uen(鄭問) (1958-2017)

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s0s2 (The Little Trashmaid)

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[allenT]

Mine would be Yoshihiro Togashi I think. (mangaka to be exact)

And Kohei Horikoshi

[Leyelle]

Ooof, favorite is hard, I like a lot, but I think the ones who influenced me the most are Bill Waterson and Dan Povenmire. They are a big influence on my love for comics and cartoons.

My cartoons:

My idols' art lol:

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[wolflu66]

Togashi's an absolute genius when it comes to story concepts and comic panel layouts!

[wolflu66]

I'm happy to share and exchange our favorite artists with each other.

[thepenmonster]

Buckle up, kids. We're going on a trip through time & space.

Simonson

Toriyama

Henandez

Lucey

Herge

Takahashi

Hernandez

Uderzo

I have... AHEM... "borrowed" techniques from all of these artists and they're fundamental to how I approach making comics.

If none of these artists are in your comic diet, you're starving.

[ThunderChicken]

I came here to say Albert Uderzo. That man was a legend. The detail he put into his work, especially the middle to later Asterix books, is nothing short of incredible.

[Katha0422]

My favourite artist is a thai actor Build jakappan putta I'm influenced by his acting and I started writing ffs for his character in a dark series

The main character of my Novel "I'll be your wings" is inspired by him

[thepenmonster]

I love it but the depiction of black people.... OOF!

At least Herge had the decency to say, "Yeah, that was shitty of me. Sorry". As far as I know (I just did a quick Google on the topic but I accept that Google is useless now) both Uderzo and Goscinny were all "fuck you" all the way until their deaths.

[ThunderChicken]

They still draw Baba the pirate like that. I’m really surprised that they do, since Uderzo died years ago, but yeah, as you said, OOF! That shit would’ve been racist even in the late 50’s/early 60’s when he was first introduced

[Lensing]

I was always wondering why everyone talks about Hergé and nobody about Uderzo & Goscinny.

Random knowledge time / sorry for off topic:
The first german translation of Asterix was done by Ralf Kauka who gave them germanized
names (Siggi und Babarras) and included some far right and imo Nazi ideology subtext.

Uderzo and Goscinny intervened after they heard about it and so the rights were
withdrawn from Kauka.

Comic nerds in Germany don´t like to discuss that topic because he used to be a big
name in the german comic scene.

[Lensing]

3 of my childhood influences and one of my adult influences.
Some random pages, very european but that´s the stuff I grew up with
Ibanez, Herge, Uderzo, Bernet

[ThunderChicken]

One of the things I always liked about the English translations (not American) of Asterix was that they retained the French sound effects, so instead of something boring like "Clunk" you'd see "Schtroumfff"

Speaking of translations, Rene Goscinny said that he preferred some of the English translations by Anthea Bell and Derrick Hockridge over his own because they were so good with wordplay. It even showed in the names of characters, such as Unhygienix the fishmonger and his wife Bacteria