[pilotblaze]

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Evil diva is about right... despite the killer curves, thats some scary-ish stuff going on right there.

She's got like a Philippe Druillet obelisk right between her boobs.

Another woman you likely don't want to piss off...

-D'Artagnian
Not to mention, the claws.

[gonZo]

Whaaaat? A (well-spotted) Druillet reference? We DO have to talk.

[pilotblaze]

Whaaaat? A (well-spotted) Druillet reference? We DO have to talk.

I bet you liked The Fifth Element because of the Moebius design stylings.

-D'A
(I know I did.)

[Eliza D]

I liked The Fifth Element because it reminded me of The Airtight Garage

[gonZo]

(I'll have to attach a pic to at least make a gesture towards staying on-topic.)

Yes, I enjoyed Giraud's work on The Fifth Element and Alien, too. My favorites at Heavy Metal / Metal Hurlant were Moebius (of course), Caza, and Enki Bilal. (Everyone else was going crazy about Richard Corben, but I thought his work looked clunky alongside the bande designée artists.)

[Palomine]

...Everyone else was going crazy about Richard Corben, but I thought his work looked clunky alongside the bande designée artists.)

...but ...the ...breasts!

[Cris_H]

I used to love Corben, too. Funny, I remember thinking, back in college when those issues first came out, just how HUGE the girls breasts were, but now I only find them a tad big.

Oh, Palomine, I don't think Den's hands constitute "clothed", really, as far as this thread is concerned. : P

Mod edit: technically you're correct of course, but hope you'll cut me some slack. -Pal

Fine with me!  . Besides, that's probably as close as you could come to finding any of Corben's girls not naked.

[pilotblaze]

(I'll have to attach a pic to at least make a gesture towards staying on-topic.)

Yes, I enjoyed Giraud's work on The Fifth Element and Alien, too. My favorites at Heavy Metal / Metal Hurlant were Moebius (of course), Caza, and Enki Bilal. (Everyone else was going crazy about Richard Corben, but I thought his work looked clunky alongside the bande designée artists.)

I loved so many of these artists... new takes on scifi and horror, taking old techniques and bending to a new eye.  
Freethinkers Unite, take flight!!!

gonZo, I understand what you're saying about the  bande designée crowd - often a more refined hand.
But I loved Corben too. Looked clunky because his forms, especially for the Den strip, were heavy, massive, powerful - or sometimes ugly.  I appreciate some of his groundbreaking style - painted rather than drawn, really - almost photographic in depth and shade.  Groundbreaking use of color: bright and florescent tones alongside stark shadow.  Stark beauty and often rich pulchritude against grotesquerie... it tickled my fancy I have to say.

One artist that really blew my mind was Tanino Liberatore and his RanXerox - glowing pastels, blood and sex, flesh and weird mechanismo (and, Green Lips notwithstanding...).  Such precision, too.  Whoa.
[BTW, ever seen the album cover or tshirt of Zappa as RanX ("The Man From Utopia"), swatting an annoying fly and snapping his guitar neck?]  

Below and barely on topic: Druillet's Salammbo, somewhat clothed and sticking chest out.
It's a stretch, so I'll stop.  This kind of art, sometimes involving boobs, would be a good thread in the off topic section.

-D'Artagnian

BTW, Pal - the Queen DOES have that robe on, in both versions - so I count that as "clothed".  No Slack required.

[gonZo]

I liked Liberatore, too, although I couldn't completely get behind a protagonist with that face. I was more attracted to the artists working elegantly in pen and ink... Moebius' use of textures, Caza's gleaming blacks and pristine feathering, stuff like that. Also, I was crazy about Nicole Claveloux (below), whose vision reminded me of Victor Moscoso's work at Zap Comix.

I always loved Zappa's choices for album artists. Cal Schenkel (who seems to have been an unofficial Mother), Marvin Mattellson, Dave McMacken. Even the contract-obligation-fulfillment albums (Studio Tan, **82** Dirt) —to which FZ may have had no input— featured great covers by Gary Panter.

That was a great time; underground comics art briefly went (semi) mainstream.
_
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[gonZo]

I really liked Corben's work —it had a great sense of mass and fleshiness, and nobody was using airbrush before he came along— but at the same time, I didn't feel that he was doing anything with storytelling, scene-staging, or lighting that Wally Wood hadn't already done better. The only thing I considered to be ground-breaking in his work was characters with visible genitalia.

[Robert_A_Gilmour]

 I definitely favour Corben, Druillet and Arthur Suydam.

 I only really liked Moebius when he really went to town with the rendering. I found his art on Incal disappointing (apparently Jodorowsky did too).

 John Zack is an obscure but excellent one. Terrible storytelling but still astounding visuals.

 For me, what sets Corben apart is the distinctive and varied faces, he has a much wider appreciation for what constitutes beauty than most comic artists. And the convincing emotions of his characters; even many great comic artists tend to use rote or unconvincing body language. He doesn't often enough get the right stories to utilize these skills but he can draw great "actors" that very few can match.
 Even his weakest work always tends to be of very high quality and for a illustrative "bravado" artist his storytelling always has complete clarity.

[Eliza D]

 This kind of art, sometimes involving boobs, would be a good thread in the off topic section.

-D'Artagnian

If it involves boobs, why would it have to be in the off topic section?

gonZo, why don't you just split this part of the thread off into its own, labelled something like "Heavy Metal/Epic magazine boob art" or whatever?  It's definitely gone off from the original topic, but interesting enough to stay as its own thread, IMO.

[gonZo]

@Eliza:
Good idea. Done!

@Robert:
Yes, Arthur Suydam was great, like a Frazetta/Wrightson disciple with a quirkier storytelling style and a wicked sense of humor. I recall him coming along (in American magazines) a few years later than the others we've discussed, though. (Am I remembering that right?)

John Zack isn't ringing any bells. Will take a look.

The seductive texture-work in Arzach is what first attracted me to Moebius. But Arzach was heavy on scenery and light on plot (his pterodactyl's sick, he feeds it a cookie, it gets better). While I agree that the Incal was less pleasing visually, it was a demanding, complicated plot, so I think Moebius made a conscious decision to de-emphasize spectacle and splendor in order to hold the reader's focus on the story. I don't think it was an entirely successful approach, though, because Incal's art feels cold and impersonal in comparison. He restrained himself in a somewhat different way when drawing Lt. Blueberry, and it seemed to work better there.

[Palomine]

I have years and years of Heavy Metal magazines starting at Volume 1, issue #1 and not missing a month until just several years ago, when I let my subscription lapse. All preserved in the usual OCD-type of condition that you might expect from me. I know (from my now-sold Silver Age comic collection) that things like this aren't generally great investments, but one of these days I'm gonna have to go online to determine fair market value so I can list them for sale.

[pilotblaze]

The above cover - always memorable - reminds me of a recent brand of guitar amplifier gaining popularity: "Evil Robot".  
For those who care: vintage class A, blues.

Thanks for setting up this thread.  I know I will enjoy any image that gets "correctly"   posted on a topic like this...

Here's some low hanging fruit: the famous Little Ego strip from HM/MH with notable gigantomastia BE in it, from Vittorio Giardino.

There was a thread on this strip in the past, but the link of the image there is now defunct...
http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,40601.0.html

Here's a fresh copy.  

-D'Artagnian

BTW, from the Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ego