From your early days buying comics

[Kirk Brent]

In no particular order: Jim Aparo, Norm Breyfogle, Greg LaRocque, George Perez, Walt Simonson, John Byrne, Dan Jurgens, Tom Grummett, Jerry Ordway, Jon Bogdanove, Brian Bolland, Graham Nolan, Eduardo Barretto, Jose-Luis Garcia-Lopez, Kerry Gammil, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Mark Bagley, Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Dough Mankhe, Matt Wagner, Art Thibert, Ron Wagner.

[Zero Hunter]

I forgot Ron Lim. To me he drew the best Silver Surfer ever period, but his art always caught my eye no matter what he was on.

No thread would be complete with the great Art Adams either. He doesn't do a lot but what he does is always amazing.

[OBrianTallent]

I'm in the old guys camp so my list goes back a bit. I remember falling in love with Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez's drawings early on, same for Dick Dillin. I remember picking up a copy of Adventure Comics digest (491 or 492) and falling head over heels in love with Alex Toth's Black Canary, that was the first time I consciously acknowledged his work and began to look out for it. You can imagine my joy and surprise when I would stumble across it attached to some of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons. George Perez, Mike Grell, John Byrne, Bob Hall, Joe Staton and Wally Wood were others that I remember standing out to me around that time as well.

[Noodle]

The first artists that really pulled me in when I started reading comics and made me want to find more of their work were Mike Wieringo on The Flash and Robin, and Joe Madureira on Uncanny X-Men.

Although it was before my time a little bit, my dad had a bunch of posters, postcards and promo stuff for DC with José Luis García-López artwork and that's probably why he's always been the definitive DC artist to me.

[K7P5V]

I forgot Ron Lim. To me he drew the best Silver Surfer ever period, but his art always caught my eye no matter what he was on.

In agreement with you about the Ron Lim version of Silver Surfer,
but don't forget about the Ron Lim version of Thanos (which is an all-time favorite):

[Kirk Brent]

I forgot Ron Lim. To me he drew the best Silver Surfer ever period, but his art always caught my eye no matter what he was on.

No thread would be complete with the great Art Adams either. He doesn't do a lot but what he does is always amazing.

Can't believe I forgot those guys! Both were among the first artists I discovered and began to follow when I started reading in '88.

[K7P5V]

Definitely, these would be My Next Top (3) Three choices...

Tuska/Alcala







John Buscema






Frank Miller

[bearman]

Kirby
Swan
Byrne
Perez
Giffen

[j9ac9k]

In my early days, I was too young to take note of specific artists - I just loved them all! But once I got a bit older and actually started taking notice, it was:
-- Michael Golden
-- John Byrne
-- Paul Smith
-- Art Adams
-- Keith Giffen
-- Rick Leonardi
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

[Chubistian]

Who were your favorite artists? I had four and they all had very different styles:

George Perez
John Byrne
Gene Colan
Don Newton

Who were yours?

I was born in the second half of he 90s and, though I got into comics even before knowing how to read, with Asterix, Tintin, DC and Marvel, I can't remember my favorite artist, if I had any, up until I was nine years old, when I watched Sin City and 300, the movies. Soon, I got the comicbooks and turned into a big Frank Miller fan for many years. I loved his writing, and his art in Sin City was near perfection in my mind.

I was also a big fan of Jim Lee, so when I found a comicbook called ALL STAR BATMAN & ROBIN (I must've been 13 or 14 years old) it was a dream come true. I think that story ended my Frank Miller and Jim Lee fever