I love you sidewalk superintendents who have it all figured out and can tell us what is and isn’t art. Twas ever thus.

If all those things somehow magically disappeared (which seems unlikely, since he must know that he can’t draw feet – that’s why everyone’s always en pointe or standing behind things or cut off at the calf), he’d be about on a level with the two or three best artists in my high school art class when I was seventeen.

And he’s a millionaire because where others only drew their women anatomically improbable, he drew them fully impossible, where others had revealing necklines he had tits hanging out of bondage gear, where others drew twenty-pound guns and six-foot swords he went for 200-pound guns (even if they were just rectangles with two holes in one end) and fifteen-foot swords (bent). We only like Ed Wood because we feel he’s a noble failure. If Plan 9 From Outer Space had made $380M (adjusted), I doubt we’d think as fondly of him.

I’m not a fan of either Clowes or Liefeld. I just find it hilarious that BB is childish enough to razz one while shilling for the other. As I said before, consume the art you want, but don’t expect quiet agreement when you diss one chump over another.

If Clowes is on par with Liefeld in regards to whether or not you connect with his characters, so be it, but you simply cannot claim that Clowes is a worse artist, because there is ample evidence to the contrary, especially when you look at work that Clowes has done that he has attempted to make photo-realistic (as opposed to his more common cartoonish style). It’s just better done, plain and simple, and it’s a silly comparison to make based on the valid (albeit super-snarky) criticisms that website is making.

And frankly, to not be able to connect on a “real” level with anything Liefeld has created is beyond the point as well – who the hell could connect with a 700 pound, 9-foot-tall, half-metal or covered in spandex mutant hero who carries around a gun the size of the average human being and who has feet the size of dinner rolls? Or a woman whose spine has at least four right angles which taper off into five foot long femurs? I don’t know anyone like that (nor does anyone else), but I’ve certainly come across a lot of people who are like Enid from Ghost World, or  Jerome from Art School Confidential, etc. 

That it what I am replying to. That was Capital_7′s comment. You want to talk about “posting the same crap reply over and over again” without reading what someone said, try scrolling up a few replies to Capital’s comment and reading it. If you can’t do that, I think we’re done here.

No one is talking about style here, they are talking about very very basic skills here. like not giving characters two left feet.

At the same time though, they really don’t offend me. 

But that’s just me.

You’re me almost, except I never actually bought it.

His imitators learned to draw better, but he’s still drawing like that!!