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"Wallace Wood, 21 October 1977 in Derby, Connecticut. Photo by Mike Zeck."

From the back cover of World of Wood #1, April 1986.

Info from Grand Comics Database

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Dear young artists:

Sincerely, and a professional who's in the industry

Tldr: work smarter, not harder. Shortcuts, energy and time savers etc. in art are good! and you should use them! and tell anyone who shames you for that to suck an egg!

In fact I'll add that these types of things are vital for actually meeting deadlines and having a life along side your art based job etc

(These were something I'd posted on Instagram before but figured I'd share here too)

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By the way, if you're the type to notice art and artists for these classic Marvel comics, I find Steve Ditko was based at conveying emotions, especially through body language, though his figures tend to be a bit sparse or even ugly. Jack Kirby's art is pure action and intensity, but his emotions, however dramatic they are, tend to always degenerate into the same stock poses, and his figures are always hulking and brutal. Don Heck strikes a good balance, where his figures are always pretty, and what he lacks for action, he makes up with in emotions and body language. He's among my fav artists for Ant-Man and Wasp, because those were two characters whose action scenes weren't all that important compared to their daily life scenes.

I've never been able to explicitly compare the artwork, but I have been able to sort of figure out what I like. Mind you, I haven't had too many dealings with all the artists this hyperfixation. Really, so far I've only read stuff by Jack Kirby, Don Heck or Gene Colan (mostly by pure accident so far). Of those three, they're all decent artists. I feel like Don Heck and Gene Colan do a lot more shading and stuff, but I don't know if that's the inkers responsibility or what.

I don't really know how to differentiate between those two jobs, but that's a topic for some other tangent. Anyways, I feel like Jack Kirby is good with most things, but his faces aren't great to me. I feel like a lot of them look a bit ugly if you state at them for too long. Especially when a character is yelling in a close up or something. I think Gene Colan was good with cinematic art, and fancy stuff like that. But I think you're right about Don Heck being pretty good. He's not the most fancy guy (like I don't often see full page panels with him and stuff), but he's pretty good regardless. He's consistent, I guess you might say? Idk. I'm just rambling, I'm sure. But yeah, Don Heck was pretty good. I found some article about him once that said he was always overlooked, and I can see that. Like, his name isn't as famous as some of his contemporaries. But he's still really good.

PS: Oh, and just for my own self satisfaction, I'm going to list the comics I've read so far. Well, not every issue or which collections, but I'll say which characters or groups I've read about so far this hyperfixation. Let's see...

I started by reading like the first 70 Daredevil comics, then I started on some of the early Silver age Ant-Man stories (I couldn't get into the giant man ones). Then I read some Iron Man and Thor stories. Now I'm reading The Avengers, and I'm not sure where to go from here. I think my comics hyperfixations never last because indecision always seizes me on what I'm reading and what I should read next.