Because Everyone Deserves A Golden Age

[filkertom]

There's no plans at the moment for a memorial for Steve Gerber; Mark Evanier, posting on Gerber's blog, thinks the many tributes going up on the Web right now are fitting in their own right, as Gerber embraced the Web early on. There is, however, a fine group working to make sure comics creators have a financial safety net: The Hero Initiative.

Who are some of your favorite comics creators? I tried to keep it to ten, and failed miserably. But I think I'd be fair in listing (in no particular order) Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Gene Colan, George Perez, Matt Wagner, John Buscema, and Steve Gerber.

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[lizreay.livejournal.com]

Alan Moore (everything he's ever done, even the stuff I haven't read yet), Kurt Busiek (Astro City), Frank Miller (Sin City, 300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns), BM Bendis (Powers), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), and Garth Ennis (Preacher). Also, everyone who works on City of Heroes/City of Villains, because it's brilliant.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Busiek has been doin' some good work the past few years, hasn't he? I knew of him for a long time, but he really caught my attention with JLA/Avengers.

And Miller would've been in my list, if not for the fact that he seems to have gone insane the past ten years. Which works to his advantage on things like Sin City and 300, but makes his Batman work almost unreadable. In some circles, he will now forever be known as Frank "I'm the goddamn Batman!" Miller.

[lizreay.livejournal.com]

Oy. Yeah. I heard about that mess. Sad, really. A friend of mine was in denial for a while, but she crumpled into a mournful heap about 3 issues in.

I'm actually a relative neophyte to the comic world. I never really read them (with the exception of Preacher) until I met my husband and his skilled comic-pimp friend. Between the two of them, they got me hooked on the past works of the individuals mentioned. I've been keeping up with Astro City, read The Walking Dead when I have time over at a friend's place (need to get my own copies) and have the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier sitting tantalizingly on my coffee table waiting for time to read it. Apart from that, I'm catching up from the distant past.