Comments on: Comics: A Beginner’s Guide: Adventure Comics http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/08/comics-a-beginners-guide-adventure-comics/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 21:53:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Martin Skidmore http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/08/comics-a-beginners-guide-adventure-comics/#comment-490701 Martin Skidmore Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:16:36 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12188#comment-490701 I don't think Ditko has ever been my #1, but I love him too. As an artist only, after Toth I'd have (no particular order) Kirby, Kojima, Ditko, Kurtzman, Herriman, Tezuka, Pratt. Obviously if I were thinking writer/artist, the list would change a little - I don't think Ditko or Toth were ever great writers, and I've never even read anything written by Kojima, and you could add in people like Barks and Crumb. I've not heard anything about a Toth bio. Re FA, my greatest regret when handing it on and seeing it fold was that I had got Toth to agree to do a cover and big interview for it - never happened, sadly. I don’t think Ditko has ever been my #1, but I love him too. As an artist only, after Toth I’d have (no particular order) Kirby, Kojima, Ditko, Kurtzman, Herriman, Tezuka, Pratt. Obviously if I were thinking writer/artist, the list would change a little – I don’t think Ditko or Toth were ever great writers, and I’ve never even read anything written by Kojima, and you could add in people like Barks and Crumb.

I’ve not heard anything about a Toth bio.

Re FA, my greatest regret when handing it on and seeing it fold was that I had got Toth to agree to do a cover and big interview for it – never happened, sadly.

]]> By: 786hanif http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/08/comics-a-beginners-guide-adventure-comics/#comment-490203 786hanif Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:06:09 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12188#comment-490203 I thought your favourite was Ditko (from back in the old fantasy Advertiser days). My order would be Toth, then Ditko, then Kojima. Any idea whether Toth will be properly honoured by having a deluxe reprint collection/biog published like the recent (flawed) Ditko one? I thought your favourite was Ditko (from back in the old fantasy Advertiser days).

My order would be Toth, then Ditko, then Kojima.

Any idea whether Toth will be properly honoured by having a deluxe reprint collection/biog published like the recent (flawed) Ditko one?

]]> By: Dan M. http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/08/comics-a-beginners-guide-adventure-comics/#comment-489436 Dan M. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:10:08 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12188#comment-489436 Great choice for the greatest, Martin. Toth was a real "artist's artist," and I see his influence strongly in Mike Mignola, to name one of the more influential younger artists... Funny that there aren't more examples of the adventre genre, none come to mind for me, either. Great choice for the greatest, Martin. Toth was a real “artist’s artist,” and I see his influence strongly in Mike Mignola, to name one of the more influential younger artists… Funny that there aren’t more examples of the adventre genre, none come to mind for me, either.

]]> By: Martin Skidmore http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/08/comics-a-beginners-guide-adventure-comics/#comment-489347 Martin Skidmore Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:25:54 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12188#comment-489347 See the children's comics entry, linked at top right, For Tintin. Clearly that is one of many instances where I might easily have put something in a different section. See the children’s comics entry, linked at top right, For Tintin. Clearly that is one of many instances where I might easily have put something in a different section.

]]> By: chap http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2008/08/comics-a-beginners-guide-adventure-comics/#comment-489340 chap Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:08:34 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12188#comment-489340 What, no Tintin? What, no Tintin?

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