Frank Quitely's art

[Maximus Brockman]

Hey. Look at me. Starting my own thread. Hope you guys will support it! :D

Anyway, I did a quick search and didn't see anything about this topic, so i figured i'd ask.

What do you guys (and gals) think of Frank Quitely? Is he a big fav around here? I gotta tell you, I don't see what the big deal is. I find his work kinda boring. Maybe it's my whole negative feeling I've been having lately about realism in comics. But, I just don't get it.

I don't know about anyone else, but if I can't wrap my head around the art, I have a very hard time getting into the story. I'm a big fan of Grant Morrison. And I think the idea of an All Star Superman is cool, but I just can't get beyond Quitely's artwork. I'm probably gonna pass on this book. I know. I know. What a shocker.

Anyone else feel this way?

Feel free to call me a moron if I'm way off base here.

[Alex Dragon]

Quietly isn't a "pretty" pictures type artist. He's good at storytelling, layouts, and all the other things that go into being a good comicbok artist but he doesn't draw "pretty" people like someone like Bryan Hitch, Jim Lee or whoever. I personally don't like the way he draws faces or bodies. I'm a "pretty" pictures fan. If he's working on a book or with a writer I like his art won't turn me away but I wouldn't buy a book solely for his art.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

I really dislike his art. It's not that his characters aren't pretty, it's that his characters are UGLY. Check out his Emma Frost. YUCK.

But I'll be buying All-Star Superman anyway for Morrison. Writing first, art second IMO.

[Dawg Corleone]

Maximus, it's funny you mentioned that. I'm new to comics so names and what not don't mean alot to me (although i'm catching on quickly, a-lah johns, busiek, etc..), but when I saw the previews for All-Star, I was less than impressed (and coming from a newb, that is saying something). It just looked generic. I was really hoping the actual comic was going to be different, and it may well be, but the comments i've been reading don't give me much hope. Who knows though, maybe it will grow on me.

[Indigo Al]

I can't stand it myself. His every character looks like a pinch faced freak with some kind of bizarre sexual or bodily function fetish.

Still signing up for All Star though!

[Dawg Corleone]

after giving some of his art further review, does it seem like his characters are short and squatty? When i saw the previews in Wizard I thought it was just an awkward angle, but now i'm finding all the work i've seen of his looks that way?

[Aaron King]

I don't think his characters all look that way. Some, like Cyclops and Emma (see the cover of the first part of E is for Extinction) are elongated. His characters are always a bit surreal and I like it, having these energetic spritely sort of characters doing adult things against super-realistic backgrounds.

[Xero Kaiser]

can't say I care much for Quitely's art. there are times when it looks okay, but there are more times when I have to put the book down

[Brian R]

I like Frank's art, quite a bit. I seem to be in the minority on this, but I think he is a very good artist. Also, the fact that Morrison loves working with him is a plus whether you like his style or not, because writers always do better work when they can colaborate with someone they like and respect.

[666MasterOfPuppets]

I saw some samples of his art, and I liked it. I admit the All Star Superman promo wasn't that good, but I still like it. However, I'd need to see more of his art.

[dancj]

I think Frank Quitely is one of the best artists around. For my tastes his pictures are very pretty. Possibly not the people in them, but that's a different thing. The only other artist I can think of who can give Supes the same feeling of power is Tim Sale, and that's pretty good company to keep in my book

[Alex Dragon]

I like Frank's art, quite a bit. I seem to be in the minority on this, but I think he is a very good artist. Also, the fact that Morrison loves working with him is a plus whether you like his style or not, because writers always do better work when they can colaborate with someone they like and respect.

He's a good artist in all the other aspects other than drawing people. He's not even really bad at drawing people but with superhero comics and handling characters we've seen others draw as "pretty", "goodlooking" or "sexy" his art doesn't work for me. In my mind it's been long established that Emma Frost is beautiful and sexy yet Quietly's Emma was fairly ugly. His characters don't have the typical "heroic" proportions and bodies we're used to seeing. That would be fine I suppose if he drew them with "realistic" proprotions but they simply look strange.
When Quietly does non-superhero stuff his style works better for me. When you're doing typical superhero stuff I think there has to be a certain level of "prettiness" you need because the characters are supposed be "idealized" versions of people.

Morrison probably likes his art moreso for his storytelling abilities than the way he actually draws people. Because Morrison teams up with him so often on big projects Quietly probably has become more popular than he'd be on his own.

[Glaucon]

Some of Quitely's art from The Authority and We3 has been indelibly burned into my mind. And thats a good thing!

[aelio]

I was previously lukewarm to Quietly...until I bought Endless Nights. His eight pages of Destiny are out of this world.

[west3man]

I like Quitely's work, but only on certain characters/stories or certain KINDS of characters/stories.

I usually prefer that he leave Superman alone, but his Earth 2 work was ... It was just cool as hell. If it weren't for that, I'd have been pretty displeased to hear he would be drawing Supes. It's nice to be wrong sometimes.

I didn't care for most of his X-work, but I've gotten kinda used to it since his style worked for the Millar-Authority issues. I don't think it would've been right for Ellis's issues or for Stormwatch, though. Weird.

It has to do with my attachment to the characters, how I first saw them (I saw Quitely's Authority well before I saw Hitch's or any of the Stormwatch stuff Ellis wrote), if they're colorful characters or "realistic," blah blah blah.

He can really do some impressive work sometimes, but I prefer him on books with a somewhat perverted tone, since his characters look like they naughty.

Bah. Enough rambling. Damned Benadryl.