Some of My Artistic Influences and Heroes

Broken into two groups- the first are comic book artists, and the second more traditional artists.

Comic Books:

• Mike Mignola
  - Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser, Hellboy, andd great Batman stuff... probably my all-time favorite.
  
• Sam Keith
  - The Maxx, the first several issues of Sandman
  
• Jack Kirby
  - If you don't know, you better ask someebody.
  
• Frank Miller
  - I didn't really start appreciating hiss stuff until Sin City, which is amazing.
  
• Dave McKean
  - The man behind all of the awesome Sanddman Covers, and everything else he's ever done, particularily Arkham Asylum, is terrific.
  
• Kelley Jones
  - I have searched the web and cannot find I single decent site (or even a bad one!) dedicated to Kelley Jones. I find this unbeleivable. If you know of one, please e-mail me. I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, I may just have to build my own.
  
• Matt Wagner
  - Mage, Grendel, really cool Batman stufff
  
• Mike Allred
  - Madman is terrific.
  
• Scott McCloud
  - Understanding Comics should be required reading for everyone.
  
• Berni Wrightson
  - Frankenstein, and some of the coolest Batman ever
  
• Walt Simonson
  - The best Thor comics ever.
  
• Stan Sakai
  - Usagi Yojimbo
  
• The art of the entire Sandman series.
  A few of the involved artists have been mentioned above, but the series works really well as a whole, and is a shining example of everything I love about comics.
  

Other Artists:

Most of these artists have work represented at the Artchive and other readily available sites.

• Marcel Duchamp
  - The sheer chutzpah of this guy...
  
• Pablo Picasso
  - Specifically his linocuts and Don Quixxote drawings
  
• Kathe Kollwitz
  - Mother, Child, and Death themes. Veryy powerful.
  
• Jose Guadalupe Posada
  - The O.G. of really cool skulls.
  
• Emil Nolde
  - My favorite of the German Expressionissts
  
• Edvard Munch
  - A really experimental printmaker
  
• Jeff Koons
  - The most obnoxious man in conteporary art. Gotta love him.
  
• Franz Kline
  - The end-all be-all of abstract expresssionism, as far as I'm concerned.
  
• Andy Warhol
  - The more I learn about this guy, the mmore I like him. He took everybody for a ride (and made some neat stuff along the way)
  
• Katsushika Hokusai
  - One of the greatest Japanese masters
• Utagawa Kuniyoshi
  - Another Japanese master who's lots of fun- a lot of action and samurai themes. Very comic book-like.
  
• Albrecht Durer
  - Cool Death stuff
  
• Hans Holbein the Younger
  - His Dance of Death series is unparalleeled.
  
• Vincent van Gogh
  - Amazingly, not overrated.
  
• Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
  - Also similar to comic books.
  
• Alphonse Mucha
  - Everything good about Art Nouveau.
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