Best comic runs for art?

[babyblob]

When everyone talks about great comic runs they always seem to talk about the writing. But what are some great runs when it comes to art? I am not really talking about mini series. I mean several issues of an ongoing with great art.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

John Byrne and Terry Austin on X-Men
Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott on Fantastic Four

[numberthirty]

100 Bullets

[MRP]

Hmm a few off the top of my head (but tastes in art may vary wildly by user)...

Will Eisner's The Spirit

Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Any of the Brubaker/Phillips runs

Darwyn Cooke's Catwoman or Spirit

Kirby's Fourth World stuff

Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan

Perez's Wonder Woman

Nexus when Steve Rude was aboard

Tarzan by Joe Kubert

Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon

-M

[JackDaw]

Frank Miller/ Klaus Janson Daredevil. I think the way the art got over the way Daredevil sensed the world, the way he moved in fights and made the story easy to follow was exceptional.

[Attila Kiss]

My collection is sorted by artists, not titles (or writers).

I could pull a lot of examples from there, but the two that "hooked" me on art from my early days were Roberto Raviola MAGNUS (he drew Alan Ford from #1 up to #75). His last issue coincided/was also the exit book for the series biggest villain, Superciuk (pronounced "Superchook" a.k.a. "Superdrunk"). He returned for a single issue #200.

The other artist that mesmerized me as a kid was Rudy Nebres and his run on Iron Fist (and the other Martial Art characters in Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu Magazine). I think he started drawing from #10 onwards, handling the main storyline.

My late discovery would be Frank Robbins on Invaders (1975 1st series) from issue #1 to #28 (with few issues missed here and there).

And I have to mention Jean Giraud MOEBIUS on Bluberry, as well as Enrique Badía ROMERO on Modesty Blaise and AXA.

Angel Medina on Spawn (#101 - #150 with few missed), and Kiss: Psycho Circus (#1 - #18).

Might not qualify here (since there was only 5 pages in each issue of 2000 AD), but Clint Langley did a remarkable job on Dinosty from issue #873 – #882).

Olivier Ledroit on Requiem.

[Joker]

Darwyn Cooke's Catwoman or Spirit

The Parker books he did are marvelous. There's 4 total, so I count that as a run.

The Maleev stretch is uneven, but the Bendis/Brubaker run of Daredevil has some great Maleev art for most of Bendis run, and Lark/Gaudiano on the whole Brubaker run.

David Aja kills on both Iron Fist and Hawkeye.

Bill Sienkiewicz New Mutants and Moon Knight are classic, highly influential runs.

[Jack Dracula]

Juano Guarnido - Blacksad

Darwyn Cooke - New Frontier - I know OP said no mini-series, but c'mon.

Jean Giraud - The Incal