Perhaps that's the only way to describe my style. I was trying to figure out, a little while back, what sort of American/Independent/not-European/non-manga amalgam to call what I draw. Maybe it's just "Roman" :)
The other day, I was reading Eric Shanower's graphic novel version of the Trojan War, Age of Bronze (http://age-of-bronze.com/aob/index.shtml). Months ago I bought the first collected volume then promptly misplaced it; last month I picked up a single issue, "Betrayal" number 7. I find his style hard to categorise--the almost unvarying line weight, the close ups, the large (but close up) crowd scenes with dozens of distinctive faces. He somewhat reminds me of a comic from a long-ago smuggled-into-grade-school issue of "Heavy Metal" magazine, a beautifully inked, no doubt European (but from where?) version of the story of Circe and Odysseus that felt like vase paintings come to life. I've never been able to track down the artist--or, rather, when I thought I'd found it, it was nothing like the memory I had of perfect art. And although Shanower doesn't quite reach that (imagined?) perfection, his style is similar. The wisps of that idealised comic remain always in the back of my mind.
There may have been smutty scenes in the comic, but who can remember, when the inking was so gorgeous?
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Date: 2007-12-04 07:16 pm (UTC)The other day, I was reading Eric Shanower's graphic novel version of the Trojan War, Age of Bronze (http://age-of-bronze.com/aob/index.shtml). Months ago I bought the first collected volume then promptly misplaced it; last month I picked up a single issue, "Betrayal" number 7. I find his style hard to categorise--the almost unvarying line weight, the close ups, the large (but close up) crowd scenes with dozens of distinctive faces. He somewhat reminds me of a comic from a long-ago smuggled-into-grade-school issue of "Heavy Metal" magazine, a beautifully inked, no doubt European (but from where?) version of the story of Circe and Odysseus that felt like vase paintings come to life. I've never been able to track down the artist--or, rather, when I thought I'd found it, it was nothing like the memory I had of perfect art. And although Shanower doesn't quite reach that (imagined?) perfection, his style is similar. The wisps of that idealised comic remain always in the back of my mind.
There may have been smutty scenes in the comic, but who can remember, when the inking was so gorgeous?
I think the cover of the magazine was pink :P