Frank Quitely C or D

But everything apart from Batman Wears A Kilt is superultramegaclassic. The "puffy" over-rendering on his figures (which is reminiscent of Crumb or Corben) is almost necessary to mitigate the ridiculous grace of the underlying poses and construction. He's great at general action and moments of quiet reflection, but only gets better the further he's pushed: cf. some of the wig-outs in Flex and especially the exploded action via dozens of insets in We3 - like a Duncan Fegredo page gone Tourettic.

What was The Kingdom: Offspring? He seems to have drawn that with Mark Waid writing.

But Matthew - best artist ever to draw the X-Men? Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, John Romita JR, Paul Smith, John Bolton, Barry Windsor Smith and John Cassaday may disagree with that...

I was just concerned because (i) it says Mark Waid down the bottom, and (ii) it says it in the Kingdom Come font. And (iii) I was looking at a much smaller version of the image, where I couldn't see the background.

I don't really see the appeal of John Bolton, but I agree that John Byrne did the best work of his career on Uncanny X-Men.

He may be a bitter old queen, but underrate the impact of the Byrne/Claremont run on superhero funnybooks at your peril.

BECAUSE YOU'RE WORTH IT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v2vcb

"Frank Quitely is the alter ego of Glaswegian comic-book artist Vincent Deighan. As one of a group of British writers and artists who have reinvented the superhero genre, Frank's depictions of iconic characters like Superman, Batman and the X-Men have provided inspiration for some of Hollywood's biggest movie franchises.

In this film, we follow Frank over the course of a day and night as he works on a single page from his latest work, the epic superhero saga Jupiter's Legacy."

Tuesday 18 Mar 2014 22:50 BBC Four

It was on BBC2 Scotland a couple of weeks ago.
I thought it was worth watching.

was bbc scotland an hour long or 30 minutes? (the iain banks thing was 60 in scotland, 30 in england)

fascinating last night. such a glamorous occupation, being an artist 8)

(that office must be freezing in the winter)

Thanks for the heads-up, very interesting. Seems like a top bloke.

Huh. What's the story behind his pen name?

Quite Frankly

"Quitely first worked upon the Scottish underground comics title Electric Soup in 1990. He wrote and drew The Greens, a parody of The Broons strip published by D.C. Thompson. It was in working on this book that he adopted the pseudonym of Frank Quitely (a spoonerism of "quite frankly"), as he did not want his family to know it was his work, worried that they may have found it upsetting."

Haaaaaaa.

D'oh! Now I feel dumm.

ulises farinas (who is drawing ILC's D.Wolk's Judge Dredd comic) gives me a F. Quitely/G. Darrow/S. Fisher vibe and is worth checking for those unfamiliar with his work:
http://ulisesfarinas.com/

Good call

I remember feeling dumb when I first got the "Frank Quitely" pun. It should be so obvious!

I only just got it. Thought it was his real name till I watched the doc TBH.

Yeah, I had no idea it even was a pen name!

Great doc! That detail of the cityscape was *intense*

Is there some easy way for non-Britishers (the player says you can't watch it outside Britain) to see the doc?

I think there are various iPlayer proxies of varying legality, have a poke around on google.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002c26

Val McDermid meets Vin Deighan
Only Artists
Series 7

Val McDermid is one of Britain’s most successful crime writers, and has sold more than 15 million books around the world. Since her debut in 1987, she has written several series of crime novels set in both her native Scotland and the north of England, as well short stories, radio plays and a prize-winning children’s book. Her latest novel is Broken Ground.

Vin Deighan was born in Glasgow and draws under the name Frank Quitely. He is one of the leading artists in American comics, working for Marvel and DC on superheroes including Batman, Superman, and the X-men. He started drawing cartoon strips for the Glasgow underground comic Electric Soup in 1989 and continues to write and design his own short stories. An exhibition of his work was held at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow in 2017.

oooh cool

i bought a Val McDermid book after she answered all the same questions on celebrity university challenge as i could. unfortunately it was quite poor, a silence of the lambs copy which actually had the characters go and see silence of the lambs at one point. she's gotten better in later books, i don't doubt.

Ty for the link, I’ll definitely check this out! I loved his work on The Invisibles and the last chapter is an all time fave.

If you (or anyone else) has yet to read Flex Mentallo please do so ASAP as it's one of the all-time greats. Really anything the two of them collaborated on is top of the heap.

also all-star superman, the greatest superman story ever told

at the risk of doxxing myself and/or dropping a name, i've had the opportunity to work with vin/frank a couple of times and meet grant morrison and they were v gracious about my stammering acknowledgement that the scene in a-ss where superman's warmth and kindness saves someone from suicide was a massive help to me in a difficult time, which i was unable to stop myself blurting out

Seriously @ that sentiment. Glad you got that moment.

But also there can't be more than, what, a couple hundred people in that country of yrs? I'm surprised you don't all live on the same street.

fuck you, we have four streets and we're promised running water by 2022

Second the awww at bg and weirdly enough I have the same feelings about The Invisibles; the part where Edith tells the story of her miscarriage and the flashback frame to it later gets me every time

Ty for Flex Mentallo rec, I’m definitely going to get that. :)

Really the entire narrative of Flex is another of those heart-hitching Mozzer/Quitely moments for me. I reread it every couple of years and it gets me every time.

yeah, flex is v special too - morrison and quitely together have a unique ability to bend readers' minds that neither of them can quite achieve when they're apart

gyac, if you wanna cry your eyes out the morrison/quitely animal-soldiers miniseries we3 will definitely have that effect

(The only non-Quitely GM work I can think of off the top that hits quite the same emotional chord for me is the ending of The Filth when the purpose of all the subsequent depravity and degradation is revealed.)

(This discussion is legit getting me a little misty.

Shut up and leave me alone.)

I actually own we3 but have never read it! But I will!

I also love their work together on New X-Men.

I have given non-comics people NXM to read and they really dig it until Quitely ends his first run.

(I like to think that this is in part because they can perceive just from the artwork in the following arc how big a turd Van Sciver will become in subsequent years.)

i think quitely's work does seem very legible to non-comics-readers in a way that is pretty unusual, so i'm not surprised to hear that, really - probably doesn't help that much of the nxm art post-quitely is pretty ugly and murky iirc

my wife loves superman from the reeve movies but doesn't care about comics much; however, she she did come with me to the quitely exhibition at the kelvingrove museum and ended up being impressed enough to buy a fairly pricey limited print of quitely's superman flying over kelvingrove, which now hangs proudly in our living room

Jealous rn.

Yeah, Quitely is the rare double threat of A+ draftsman and A+ storyteller.

Anyone know an ETA for Jupiter's Legacy v3?