Rich, I have a question about your inking. Did you ever come across penciled pages where you didn't know what was going on? How do you handle that? Do you have to talk to the penciler and ask them how they want it inked? I've seen pages in comics that look really busy and confusing and I'm just wondering how inkers handle that stuff? Thanks!
Great vid! Basically any up and coming artist that didn't have that special ability to draw incredibly beautiful figures like Raymond or incredible realistic environments like Foster, was drawn to the Caniff Style. Kubert, even Toth started copying Caniff. Eisner is the purest of the copycats and kept Caniff in his style his whole career. You can see Joe Kubert's change away from Caniff during Brave and Bold's Viking Prince to another more realistic artist he emulated. Can't remember his name but his work almost looks like Kubert drew it. Also, notoriously, Raymond went through a period on Rip Kirby where he was aping Caniff in order to draw faster (see Dave Sim's The Strange Death of.Alex Raymond for more on this). It didn't last but Caniff was angry about it.
Also.Terry and the Pirates, despite being the more popular of this 2 strips, was his earlier work. His style was cemented on Steve Canyon where married his simpler figures with his newer ability to render detailed realistic environments (Foster without needing to be as good as Hal) with just a brush (no fine detail). Any cartoonist could see the allure at the time as a time saver alone
You're spot on about Eisner; you don't have Eisner femme fatales without Caniff femme fatales. I believe the blue was an indicator for the engravers to use screen tones. Caniff's heavy brushline style was more or less invented by his studio mate Noel Sickles, who drew Scorchy Smith and designed the logos for Terry and Steve Canyon. The difference is that Caniff created great characters and masterful stories. There's nothing better than sitting down with a volume of Terry after about 1937; it's like watching an epic old Warner Brothers film. The babe who keeps showing her skin is Miss Lace from the wartime strip Male Call that Caniff drew for the armed force papers as a "morale booster". They're beautifully drawn and Lace's sexuality is about as subtle as a howitzer.
I love Caniff´s art, specially his inking style. I can look any of his panels for hours, every line and blacks he puts are a master lesson. Incredible compositions and masterful in every way. He is one of the greatest and deeply influential.
Hello Rich , Do you know Valentin Sécher From Méta Baron? A french amazing penciler !!! He' s also draw KAAL and Recently Conan…you should check is work!
The light blue is not for color. Must be for grays. In a high contrast photostat, the light blue comes out as white. He used actresses as inspirations for his female characters. Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, among others. He influenced a lot of other artists. The one I prefer: Frank Robbins.
I say Frank Roberts early in the video. Frank ROBBINS is what I meant.
I could see a link between eisner and caniff, particularly 1945 and on, on the spirit
Roy crane would be a good followup on the evolution of caniff…his crafting stuff leveled up on the striking black and white on Terry
Caniff had a comic only available to military personnel called "male call"…it was very similar to Terry but more risque
Al Alison may be interesting, he did captain America after kirby
Berry Windsor Smith started as a Kirby Clone back in the day
Pls Richard make one about Rowena morrill. Nobody talk about her work. Underrated artist for sure. Thanks again for all those videos have a nice week.
Toth claimed he was more influenced by Noel Sickles than Caniff. If you go down that rabbit hole, check out his Scorchy Smith strips.
Rich, I have a question about your inking. Did you ever come across penciled pages where you didn't know what was going on? How do you handle that? Do you have to talk to the penciler and ask them how they want it inked? I've seen pages in comics that look really busy and confusing and I'm just wondering how inkers handle that stuff? Thanks!
Great vid! Basically any up and coming artist that didn't have that special ability to draw incredibly beautiful figures like Raymond or incredible realistic environments like Foster, was drawn to the Caniff Style. Kubert, even Toth started copying Caniff. Eisner is the purest of the copycats and kept Caniff in his style his whole career. You can see Joe Kubert's change away from Caniff during Brave and Bold's Viking Prince to another more realistic artist he emulated. Can't remember his name but his work almost looks like Kubert drew it. Also, notoriously, Raymond went through a period on Rip Kirby where he was aping Caniff in order to draw faster (see Dave Sim's The Strange Death of.Alex Raymond for more on this). It didn't last but Caniff was angry about it.
Also.Terry and the Pirates, despite being the more popular of this 2 strips, was his earlier work. His style was cemented on Steve Canyon where married his simpler figures with his newer ability to render detailed realistic environments (Foster without needing to be as good as Hal) with just a brush (no fine detail). Any cartoonist could see the allure at the time as a time saver alone
i havent seen much of his work before its really great, i love the watercolour pieces. chris samnee has a little of this vibe to
You're spot on about Eisner; you don't have Eisner femme fatales without Caniff femme fatales.
I believe the blue was an indicator for the engravers to use screen tones.
Caniff's heavy brushline style was more or less invented by his studio mate Noel Sickles, who drew Scorchy Smith and designed the logos for Terry and Steve Canyon. The difference is that Caniff created great characters and masterful stories. There's nothing better than sitting down with a volume of Terry after about 1937; it's like watching an epic old Warner Brothers film.
The babe who keeps showing her skin is Miss Lace from the wartime strip Male Call that Caniff drew for the armed force papers as a "morale booster". They're beautifully drawn and Lace's sexuality is about as subtle as a howitzer.
I love Caniff´s art, specially his inking style. I can look any of his panels for hours, every line and blacks he puts are a master lesson. Incredible compositions and masterful in every way. He is one of the greatest and deeply influential.
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that Chester Gould profile head in the middle shows up in the Famous Artist Course booklets. That would be a fun 'open that book, Rich'.
I’m with you 100% with self portrait with all the characters pretty cool idea
Hello Rich , Do you know Valentin Sécher From Méta Baron? A french amazing penciler !!! He' s also draw KAAL and Recently Conan…you should check is work!
2:30 one might say… A Caniff-tion fit?
The light blue is not for color. Must be for grays. In a high contrast photostat, the light blue comes out as white. He used actresses as inspirations for his female characters. Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, among others. He influenced a lot of other artists. The one I prefer: Frank Robbins.
Love Miltons style so much! It looks effortless and beautifull!
5:07 Millers Dark Knight Returns Villan! Nice Quote Frank!
Gotta get myself som MiltonCanif!!!
What are some realistic or realism comic📙books? 🧡📙
I guess the one pupil-less-fair-eyed guy has a blind eye. It looks like that some times, a pupil-less blue eye, whatever is the ultimate cause.