Have you ever checked out the work of Carlos Meglia? Most of his work is great but his late period European stuff is really a unique mixed media kind of style. His american work is alright(i wish he did the colour work himself) but the best one is Superman Infinite City which he is bascially him doing what he does with his european stuff. He also did a Jodorowsky story which which has that style in english
The only exposure I had to him was some stuff he did for Humberto Ramos on Crimson. At the time I hated it, but I find myself refelcting back on those few issues a LOT as I am looking at these south american artists.
@@clubgrubbug yeah. His line work was very cartoony in contrast to what was common in the US at the time. I believe that his windstorm and star wars work would have benefited if he had done his own colour work. The late 90s colouring did him no favours
I Guess they are just following the Italian (Tex) and French (Alvar Mayor) editions. Alvar Mayor is older, from a time that the caring in reproduction was not as it can be today. I have a Short Stories book by Enrique Breccia. His Artstyle is more experimental in there. The Stories themselves require context, if not given, they are really hard to get IMO.
It makes sense that the tex reproduction is better; the 70s was not a great period for original art in Argentina(which is sad cause AM won awards back in the day). Also Enrique has quickly become ine if my favourite artists in the Argentine tradition. Hopefully his more experimental work gets translated, one day.
Alvar Mayor's originals were stolen long ago if I'm not mistaken. Although, the first AM stories aren't the best since he was changing style from a more experimental one. Also the writing changes and becomes more poetic and dreamy. Tex has nothing to do with Blueberry, it is way more traditional and conservative than BB. As you can see, also the layouts are standard compared to Alvar Mayor's, which are more free and open. Think that these are "special" volumes for the Tex saga, for which a special guest is invited to draw it. The Breccia's one is also one of the most untraditional. Tex came out in '48 and never took anything from BB. Well, I don't like Tex and this story is also one of the worst xD The rocks tecnique actually is way more complex and unique than you can ever think. I don't know how to say it in english but he applies the glue, then draws on it and removes the glue. Basically he draws on negative and the result has always an additional kind of random element to it. You can find him doing this technique on YT in the It Comics channel. Anyway, Enrique was pretty experimental himself. He was really young when he did Life of Che and his drawings there are influenced by mexican murales. Anyway, something that was never done. Oh, you haven't seen his stuff in color, which is amazing.
That is very sad. makes sense why the reproduction is worse. I have actually spent the last two weeks applying a lot of that masking fluid you are referring to. I am using it for a lot of stuff in my new work, which is definitely borrowing HEAVILY from these gentlemen. Hopefully we can at least show the world what those kind of techniques would look like if we could still see those originals. No way I am using any of them as well as these Maestro's did, though, sadly.
Tex always looked pretty generic and boring to me, so even as a European western fan, I never checked it out. I am pretty impressed about the artists Bonelli got for these special editions, or whatever they are. Serpieri, Kubert, Bernet, Corrado Mastantuono, Colin Wilson... Haven't seen the Breccia book before, artwise it's probably one of the best so far, if not the best.
Enrique Breccia worked at DC Comics. Some Swamp Thing Covers, Issues. He was the artist on a Lovecraft book written by Keith Giffen.
That all sounds like stuff well worth tracking down. Thanks!
love this guys work! great review wish I had backed the kickstarter!!
There must be a way to get them now.
Have you ever checked out the work of Carlos Meglia? Most of his work is great but his late period European stuff is really a unique mixed media kind of style. His american work is alright(i wish he did the colour work himself) but the best one is Superman Infinite City which he is bascially him doing what he does with his european stuff. He also did a Jodorowsky story which which has that style in english
The only exposure I had to him was some stuff he did for Humberto Ramos on Crimson. At the time I hated it, but I find myself refelcting back on those few issues a LOT as I am looking at these south american artists.
@@clubgrubbug yeah. His line work was very cartoony in contrast to what was common in the US at the time. I believe that his windstorm and star wars work would have benefited if he had done his own colour work. The late 90s colouring did him no favours
I Guess they are just following the Italian (Tex) and French (Alvar Mayor) editions. Alvar Mayor is older, from a time that the caring in reproduction was not as it can be today.
I have a Short Stories book by Enrique Breccia. His Artstyle is more experimental in there. The Stories themselves require context, if not given, they are really hard to get IMO.
I hope eventually we can see all of his work, it sounds like there are things even better than these.
It makes sense that the tex reproduction is better; the 70s was not a great period for original art in Argentina(which is sad cause AM won awards back in the day). Also Enrique has quickly become ine if my favourite artists in the Argentine tradition. Hopefully his more experimental work gets translated, one day.
I sure hope so! He is fantastic.
Alvar Mayor's originals were stolen long ago if I'm not mistaken. Although, the first AM stories aren't the best since he was changing style from a more experimental one. Also the writing changes and becomes more poetic and dreamy.
Tex has nothing to do with Blueberry, it is way more traditional and conservative than BB. As you can see, also the layouts are standard compared to Alvar Mayor's, which are more free and open. Think that these are "special" volumes for the Tex saga, for which a special guest is invited to draw it. The Breccia's one is also one of the most untraditional. Tex came out in '48 and never took anything from BB. Well, I don't like Tex and this story is also one of the worst xD
The rocks tecnique actually is way more complex and unique than you can ever think. I don't know how to say it in english but he applies the glue, then draws on it and removes the glue. Basically he draws on negative and the result has always an additional kind of random element to it. You can find him doing this technique on YT in the It Comics channel.
Anyway, Enrique was pretty experimental himself. He was really young when he did Life of Che and his drawings there are influenced by mexican murales. Anyway, something that was never done. Oh, you haven't seen his stuff in color, which is amazing.
That is very sad. makes sense why the reproduction is worse.
I have actually spent the last two weeks applying a lot of that masking fluid you are referring to. I am using it for a lot of stuff in my new work, which is definitely borrowing HEAVILY from these gentlemen. Hopefully we can at least show the world what those kind of techniques would look like if we could still see those originals. No way I am using any of them as well as these Maestro's did, though, sadly.
Tex always looked pretty generic and boring to me, so even as a European western fan, I never checked it out. I am pretty impressed about the artists Bonelli got for these special editions, or whatever they are. Serpieri, Kubert, Bernet, Corrado Mastantuono, Colin Wilson... Haven't seen the Breccia book before, artwise it's probably one of the best so far, if not the best.
Ooo, I would love to see the Serpieri one. Didn't know he did anything but Druna.
Yeah, he made a lot of Westerns.