PDA

View Full Version : What Byrne's been up to lately....

MacQuarrie
11-09-2007, 10:15 AM
I happened upon this and hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere (but then I'm not a regular at his forum), and I thought it was interesting....

Take a look at the new character designs for the Funky Winkerbean comic strip (http://www.funkywinkerbean.com/cast.html). Look familiar?

This isn't intended to be an attack on Mr. Byrne. I think he's done some nice character work here, and I happen to like the Funky Winkerbean strip. How about if we have one thread here regarding Byrne that doesn't slag him?

Nice work, JB.
buttler
11-09-2007, 11:11 AM
I'm trying here. I really am. Um . . . his run on Fantastic Four was really, really good.

And I remember really appreciatiating the impressively round bubble boobs he always gave his female characters when I was 14.

Woo! Did it! High five!
Matt Algren
11-09-2007, 12:52 PM
Yeah, I saw that last week and thought they looked familiar. Byrne ghosted the strip for awhile earlier this year (maybe last year). It'll be interesting to see what Batiuk does with the strip now that he's lept ahead 10 years.

Also,

http://www.shortpacked.com/comics/20070416cancer.png
Kid Omega
11-09-2007, 12:56 PM
You know what I like?

I like the GET FUZZY.
will_butler
11-09-2007, 01:15 PM
Good call. Get Fuzzy is good times. They used to print that one in my old college newspaper.

Will
Michael P
11-09-2007, 01:30 PM
You know what I like?

I like the GET FUZZY.

That, Pearls Before Swine, and Bizarro are the only syndicated strips I bother with anymore.
Matt Algren
11-09-2007, 01:35 PM
That, Pearls Before Swine, and Bizarro are the only syndicated strips I bother with anymore.
We don't get any of them out here in the boonies. What I've seen of Pearls Before Swine, I've liked.
Michael P
11-09-2007, 01:46 PM
We don't get any of them out here in the boonies. What I've seen of Pearls Before Swine, I've liked.

They're all available from the various syndicates online.
Gail Simone
11-09-2007, 02:01 PM
I like Mutts a lot, and I enjoy Stone Soup, also.

Gail
Jared_Humpherys
11-09-2007, 02:03 PM
I used to dig Foxtrot, way back when.
Kid Omega
11-09-2007, 02:05 PM
They're all available from the various syndicates online.

You know what rules?

THIS! (http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/pvaliant/about.htm)

One of the great adventure strips, written by Mark Schultz and drawn by the great Gary Gianni!

Ahhh, poetry!
bert
11-09-2007, 04:54 PM
I happened upon this and hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere (but then I'm not a regular at his forum), and I thought it was interesting....

Take a look at the new character designs for the Funky Winkerbean comic strip (http://www.funkywinkerbean.com/cast.html). Look familiar?

This isn't intended to be an attack on Mr. Byrne. I think he's done some nice character work here, and I happen to like the Funky Winkerbean strip. How about if we have one thread here regarding Byrne that doesn't slag him?

Nice work, JB.

hmmm. . .

It *does* look pretty much like his standard style, but I do like some of the character designs.

I wish he'd get a few more female faces tho.
Aggie
11-09-2007, 08:56 PM
i thought he was ghosting that strip for years. i never read it though i second mutts and pearls before swine too...i love when peals do riffs on other strips especially the much reviled "family circus"...
Pink Bat Max
11-10-2007, 12:08 AM
I happened upon this and hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere (but then I'm not a regular at his forum), and I thought it was interesting.....

John Byrne is a hell of a cartoonist. I do think that Marvel suits him better than DC. In a universe that was largely built by Stan Lee, his over-the-top-breathless-gee-whiz-pseudo-Shakespearean writing really fits in nicely.

Just because I don't like his Superman or Wonder Woman runs doesn't mean I don't like his work. I just think his talents are better utilized in the Marvel U.

And as for his cartooning.... well, I read his issues of All-New Atom, and I thought his art was really a nice fit. It helped establish the series' nice, light, yet wierd vibe on a visual level, and created a foundation that his successor has really been able to dig into and expand upon.

Gotta love his Nude Giganta At The Drive-In images.
shrike
11-10-2007, 10:29 AM
Gotta love his Nude Giganta At The Drive-In images.

What..?? LOL
rick
11-10-2007, 10:45 AM
Byrne is a fine artist and his sketch-up for the aged Funky Winkerbean characters are very good.

I'm really not a fan of the strip, but I will give it real credit for trying to become something more then a gag strip.
MartinRedmond
11-10-2007, 11:15 AM
He's working on FX at IDW, it's writen and financed by Wayne Osborne. I'm eager for it being successful enough for sequels or more creator owned projects. You can see preview art on his forum.
Pink Bat Max
11-10-2007, 02:22 PM
What..?? LOL

Oh yes.

Nude Giganta attacks the Drive-In, swallows the Atom, but not in the way he might have liked.

All New Atom is soooo worth picking up.