The backgrounds are really amazing in Yotsuba, especially in the later books. It's very hard to create such perfect images with the feeling of sunlight, a rainy day, typhoon, the play of light in the trees with only ink. Wish I had assistants like that.

Azuma is a vc: rishuve ("rice head" with a bit of slangy pronunciation in Swedish)

>>208032
naw, not hard really, especially if you use photo references. I remember how impressed I was when back in 1986 I saw my first manga: Appleseed by Shirow and he had a drawing of trees branches and their shadows on the sidewalk, simular to what Azuma is doing. Of course the Europeans have been doing this stuff for decades too. Americans well, they are stuck doing Batman and X men. Now they just do them in Photoshop and they still sux.

It's still pretty hard, and most importantly, takes a lot of time.

>>208033

>Americans well, they are stuck doing Batman and X men.

You are either incredibly ignorant or a very successful troll. I'm so angry I can barely type.

>>208060

Well, they also do "high art" like Ren and Stimpy, Powerpuff Girls, or Family Guy. That's quality artwork right there!

Oh, and I suppose there's the current batch of politically correct, sterile, CG coming from Pixar.

>>208061
Yep, troll.

post >>208061 wasnt me.

>>208060
well ok, i'll admit i was trolling and I was successful. Americans got great art: all the Zap guys: Robert Crumb, Wilson, Spain, Paul Pope, Richard Corben, Phoebe Gloeckner, Renee Frech, Linda Barry, Los Bros hernandez, Dori Seda.
Now tell me honestly, have you even heard of even ONE of them??

Paul Pope's stuff:
http://rapidshare.com/files/364164382/THB_6-a__HQ_scan__2064.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/357483536/Car_Crash_part_2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/348251828/Pee_Pee_Heavy_Liquid_3_HQ__harbova_.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/331086979/Paul_Pope_s_One_Trick_Rip_off_TPB_collected_2064_pixels_width.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/330767746/Paul_Pope_s_Giant_THB_Parade__Horse_Press_.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/330729826/Paul_Pope_s_THB_Circus__Horse_Press_.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/330717344/Paul_Pope_s_Ballard_of_Doctor_Richardson.rar

for more, make an account at
http://tehparadox.com.
his stuff is at
http://tehparadox.com/forum/f72/thb-736488/
http://tehparadox.com/forum/f72/paul-popes-works-888955/
see you there or even better at http://komics-live.com/

>>208063

>well ok, i'll admit i was trolling and I was successful. Americans got great art: all the Zap guys: Robert Crumb, Wilson, Spain, Paul Pope, Richard Corben, Phoebe Gloeckner, Renee Frech, Linda Barry, Los Bros hernandez, Dori Seda.
>Now tell me honestly, have you even heard of even ONE of them??

I'll admit I'm not familiar with Paul Pope or Renee Frech. I'm well acquainted with the rest of them. I also know of a great artist named Renee FRENCH. I would put Jim Woodring up with those folks as well.

Deleted and reposted to add: I'm not >>208060 but I agree with his statement.

>>208063
Read some Crumb from my father's collection. While I'm not a fan of that genre of comic to recognize more of the artists, I at least know it should be a sin to mention Crumb but not Shelton.
I've loved every bit of Pope's work I can get my hands on, with Heavy Liquid being my most recent favoirite.
I should know Richard Corben from the Den stories printed in Heavy Metal (which has been suprising me some decent stuff recently), but I didn't know him by name and required wikipedia to tell me I've read him at all.
I am not familiar with the work of the others you've mentioned, but I must say there seems to be neglect for certain mainstream artists like Will Eisner and Hal Foster. Hell, are you trying to claim Gil Kane, Wally Wood and Dave Cockrum couldn't draw because of the genre they found employment in?
For generic recommendations Black Hole was pretty neat, and Requiem: Chevalier Vampire Knight is the best thing HM's printing these days.

Jim Davis is brilliant, and frankly, the only comic writer that matters in this generation.

>>208063
>>208068
I should state that by familiarity I havn't read works of the others, but I have heard of somev (like the Hernandez brothers' Love & Rockets).

>>208063

>>You, you probably don't even know who Richard Corben, Robert Crumb, etc. are.

oh dear.

>>208073
I'll be fair, I have no idea who any of those guys are. I'll be that makes anybody who does feel better about themselves.

Paul Pope spent a year at Kodansha...which is more than many Japanese artists ever manage to do. Rich Corben's also been doing some cool Hellboy stories lately.

Man, I go to a Western comics image board and their hatred for 'animu' borders on bigotry.

Go to a Japanese manga image board and find the same contempt for the other.

I just don't get it.

>>208132

They're all whores. Case closed, move on.

>>208073
I've always pictured /azu/ looking like that, but apparently you're all pretty damn hairy.

>>208196
Really?

>>208227
Yeah, you didn't?

>>208232
I meant 'really?' about them all being hairy.

I never knew.