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Artist canon

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Artist canon

First entry in my personal (static) "visual storytelling" canon

Tranquilinho
Jan 4, 2023
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I was commenting with my nephew his film tastes, and he made a point: there are the movies he considers brilliant, his favourite movies, and then the movies he has seen most. I would like to try his approach on “static visual storytelling” (comics and illustration) — to share my personal art&artist cannon. It might also be interesting to collect an “anti-canon”, from works that I like the least, or that I consider poor… though I believe constructive criticism should be discussed with the author — not in the open arena of Internet. That said, I recommend it as a personal recollection: which works do you like less? Why? Are they really that bad, or maybe one’s personal taste is involved?

My favourite artists

I am distributing my canon into a small set of articles. First, let me start with an appreciation of my favourite comic and illustration artist across the world (which I am afraid it will be biased towards the “western market”, in which I have had the chances to get to know the works of such artists…) Also, I will focus on “modern” visual storytelling (20th and 21st centuries)

(Alphabetical order, grouped by country — in some cases country may not be obvious, maybe an artist was born in a country but has developed her career in another)

Europe

Spain

  • Paco Alcázar

  • Pablo Auladell

  • Azpiri

  • Asun Balzola

  • J.M. Beá

  • Calpurnio

  • Alex Fito

  • Carlos Giménez

  • Ibáñez

  • Jan

  • Kim

  • Magius

  • Max

  • Albert Monteys

  • Javier Olivares

  • Puño

  • David Ramirez

  • Paco Roca

  • Juanjo Sáez

  • Antonio Santos

  • Aitor Saraiba

  • Carme Solé

  • Aroha Travé

  • Ulises Wensell

  • Javier Zabala

Czech Republic

  • Štěpán Zavřel

Poland

  • Józef Wilkoń

Slovenia

  • Maja Kastelic

France-Belgium

  • David B.

  • Émile Bravo

  • Franquin

  • Emmanuel Guibert

  • Hergé

  • Riad Sattouf

  • Sempé

  • Uderzo

Italy

  • Beatrice Allemagna

  • Igort

Germany

  • Hans Jürgen-Press

  • Ralf König

  • Heinrich Kley

UK

  • David McKee

Asia / Oceania

Japan

  • Moto Hagio

  • Shotaro Ishinomori

  • Satoshi Kitamura

  • Kentaro Miura

  • Kabi Nagata

  • Katsuhiro Otomo

  • Osamu Tezuka

  • Akira Toriyama

Australia

  • Shaun Tan

Americas

Argentina

  • Horacio Altuna

  • Liniers

  • Mariana Ruiz Johnson

  • Quino

Brazil

  • Carybé

  • Gabriel Bá

  • José Francisco Borges

USA

  • Linda Barry

  • Allison Bechdel

  • Ivan Brunetti

  • Robert Crumb

  • Jaime Hernandez

  • Frank King

  • James Kochalka

  • Jeph Loebb

  • Richard McGuire

  • David Mazzuchelli

  • Winsor McCay

  • Frank Miller

  • Ron Regé Jr

  • Joe Sacco

  • Tim Sale

  • Charles Schultz

  • Maurice Sendak

  • Art Spiegelman

  • Craig Thompson

  • Chris Ware

  • Bill Watterson

Canada

  • Guy Delisle

  • Jon Klassen

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