Everyones Top 10 Artists.

[Gav the Mighty]

Im sorry if this has been done ..over & over

1.Carlos Ezquerra
2.Chris Western
3.Brian Bolland
4.Ian Gibson
5.Ron Smith
6.M Bernadelli
7.Dermot Power 
8.B Ewins
9.G Fabry
10.K O'neil

These are just the ones i warm to ..I Prefer my drawings crisp and comicky , and not too Lavish and Artsy

[Jim_Campbell]

You have Brett "Tracing Paper" Ewins on there, but no Mike McMahon or Cam Kennedy?!? Your mouth is full of wrong, sir!

Cheers

Jim

[Hoagy]

Dave Gibbons should be there perhaps in place of Fabry?

[nev]

If I put MacNeil for all ten will he love me yet?

[I, Cosh]

Hooray for pointless lists!

01. Bill Sienkiewicz.
02. JH Williams III.
03. Brendan McCarthy.
04. Henry Flint.
05. Steve Yeowell.
06. Bryan Talbot.
07. Steve Dillon.
08. Massimo Belardinelli.
09. Kev Walker.
10. Arthur Ranson.

This isn't exactly in order of merit, more the order I think of them. However, the first three were the names that immediately jumped into my head when I saw the topic.

Flint is the quintessential modern 2000AD artist, I think: always doing something a little different but always telling a strong story with plenty of mental creatures slicing each other to bits.

Yeowell, Talbot and Dillon have been producing great, unshowy work for decades. The likes of Cam Kennedy and Ron Smith could just as easily have fitted into the category, but they weren't the ones that sprang to mind.  The rest are simply artists whose work I've always enjoyed for different reasons.

It'll all change tomorrow after I've seen a few more suggestions.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Dermot Power I always admired. He did a lot of concept stuff for 'Batman Begins' so I hope they hire him for the movie.

[ming]

No particular order...

1. McMahon
2. McCarthy
3. Ezquerra
4. Cam Kennedy
5. Bolland
6. Belardinelli
7. O'Neill
8. Colin Wilson
9. Dave Gibbons
10. Bryan Talbot

Many more to add (Fabry, Bisley, Yeowell), but those are my top ten I guess...

[Jim_Campbell]

Dermot Power I always admired. He did a lot of concept stuff for 'Batman Begins' so I hope they hire him for the movie.

Dermot Power's website is basically enough to make you just give up on the whole art malarkey, quite frankly!

Cheers

Jim

[Zarjazzer]

1.Cam Kennedy
2.Colin Wilson
3.Ian Gibson
4.Dave Gibbons
5.P.J Holden
6.Kev Walker
7.Henry Flint
8.Simon Coleby
9.Carl Critchlow
10.Colin Macneil

I'm sure it would change were I to write it out again...

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Dermot Power I always admired. He did a lot of concept stuff for 'Batman Begins' so I hope they hire him for the movie.

Dermot Power's website is basically enough to make you just give up on the whole art malarkey, quite frankly!

Cheers

Jim

Oh great! After my computer disaster [that is now thankfully repaired] I forgot to add his name to me list of favourites. Thanks Jim.

[bluemeanie]

This doesnt specify 2000AD artists, so here is my "off the top of my head" list that I'll probably want to change the second I post it.

In no real order bar the first few

1. Alan Davis
2. Norm Breyfogle
3. Simon Bisley
4. James O'Barr
5. Dave Stevens
6. Mike Ploog
7. Kevin O'Neill
8. Steve Dillon
9. Takeshi Obata
10. Leo Baxendale

[Toni Scandella]

Crikey.

Errr.. in no real order then:

Carlos Ezquerra
Mike McMahon
Steve Dillon
Brian Bolland
Cam Kennedy
Kevin O'Neill
Arthur Ranson
Ron Smith
Dave Gibbons
Massimo Belardinelli

I would also have said Simon Bisly and John Hicklenton, and some others, but 10 isn't enough.

[Smarty]

at the moment

1 frank frazetta
2 ashley wood
3 sean gordon murphy
4 scottie young
5 wally wood
6 calum alexander watt
7 rockwell
8 Ilya repin
9 Wyeth
10 - everyone else

[vzzbux]

This is impossible. Every artist has their own nuance and a lot are equally likeable for different reasons so I cannot justify a top 10 sorry.







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[Colin YNWA]

Uh what fun... but sooooo hard. To make this possible I've stuck to just 2000ad artists as I'm not sure I could do it otherwise. As ever ask me tomorrow and I'm sure this will have changed so for today at least it goes like this.

1. Henry Flint
2. Mike McMahon
3. Cam Kennedy
4. Brian Bolland
5. Steve Yeowell
6. Fraser Irving
7. Brendan McCarthy
8. Colin Wilson
9. Arthur Ranson
10. Kev O'Neill

As ever with these things what amazed me was the number of artists when I wrote a short list (a lonnnngggg short list) I just assumed would make the final cut who didn't amongst them D'Israeli, David Taylor, Alan Davis, Dave Gibbons, John Burns, Simon Fraser, Alex Ronald, Rian Hughes, Ian Gibson... heavens to mergatode we're been treated to some brillant stuff over the year huh!