I know!!! Can you believe that there are people who don't like Chaykin on these boards!!!

And what about Lou Fine or Frazetta! They're not even on the list!

Actually I don't care for Jim Lee's work. It's too bubble gummie for me. He's got that Image taint.

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Tied for 7th place with 6 votes -

voted #13 on Comic Book Resource's list of top 50 Artist is;

Steve Ditko



After a short stint in the military after World War II, Steve Ditko studied at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, and by 1953, he was working in the field of comics, for Crestwood, Harvey and Charlton Comics.

Soon, he found himself steady work at Atlas Comics for the rest of the 50s, working on the relaunched titles Amazing Adventures, Strange Worlds, Tales of Suspense and Tales to Astonish, which soon became the most popular titles from Atlas Comics (soon to be known as Marvel Comics).

In 1962, Ditko co-created Spider-Man with Stan Lee. It was working on Spider-Man and Doctor Strange that Ditko gained the majority of his fame.

A master of economy, Ditko stories were often packed with many panels, giving each story a depth of plot that made each issue a hearty reading experience.

His art was always very cleanly detailed, and he was a master of creating the right mood with his work, and, as I mentioned, with the amount of panels he used, he could convey the deepest of emotions in one small panel, making a five-page story feel like a 22-pager.

Check out this example from a page of Amazing Spider-Man...



Meanwhile, on Doctor Strange, Ditko cut loose with surreal ideas, like introducing Eternity.

Eventually, Ditko seemed to desire more freedom with his work (he had taken on more and more writing work on his strips), so he left Marvel for Charlton Comics, where he was given a good deal of freedom.

He worked on Captain Atom, Blue Beetle and The Question, and in addition, he created Mr. A for Wally Wood's independent company.

When Dick Giordano left Charlton for DC, Ditko was one of the creators he brought with him, and Ditko did some work for DC in the late 60s/early 70s, including creating The Creeper and co-creating Hawk and Dove.

Soon, though, Ditko went back to Charlton and independent companies, only returning to DC brielfy in the mid-70s, where he created Shade the Changing Man.

Ditko came back to work for Marvel in the early 80s, and from then on until his retirement from mainstream comics in the late 90s, he would work for either company as a freelancer, doing a number of titles as eclectic as Rom the Space Knight, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and Indiana Jones.

Since the late 90s, Ditko has only released a few one-shots sporadically, mostly for his longtime friend, Robin Snyder.

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Tied for 11th place with 5 votes -

voted #23 on Comic Book Resource's list of top 50 Artist is;

Steve McNiven



Steve McNiven was a schoolteacher for years before finally feeling he was ready to start looking for a professional gig drawing comics. In his very first con, looking for work, McNiven's talent was noticed by Crossgen comics, which hired him to follow Joshua Middleton as regular artist for Crossgen's Meridian, with writer Barbara Kesel.

He stayed with Crossgen until it was clear the company was going under, at which point McNiven went to Marvel Comics, where he became the artist for Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Marvel Knights: Four.

People were quite impressed with McNiven's detailed work which was just stylized enough not to be photo-realistic.

After a stint on Ultimate Secret and New Avengers, McNiven took over the biggest assignment of his career, drawing Marvel's big crossover event, Civil War, with writer Mark Millar.



McNiven is still doing Civil War at this point in time.

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voted #30 on Comic Book Resource's list of top 50 Artist is;

Todd McFarlane



Todd McFarlane first gained attention in the comic industry with a back-up story in Epic Comics' Coyote.

This led to assignments at both DC and Marvel. His run on Incredible Hulk was popular enough that Marvel decided to bump him up to a bigger book, Amazing Spider-Man.

On Amazing Spider-Man, McFarlane experimented with the look of the character, his costume and his webbing. McFarlane added a cartoony feel to the work, but also a dynamic cartoonish feel.



McFarlane was soon so popular on the title that Marvel gave him his own Spider-Man series to write and draw. Spider-Man #1 was one of the highest selling comics of all-time.

Soon, McFarlane helped form the comic company Image, debuting his own creation, Spawn, and making IT one of the highest selling comics on the market.

Spawn has had a movie and a animated TV series.

McFarlane recently announced a return to drawing, after a long absence, for the DC/Image crossover, Batman/Spawn.

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1) Bernie Wrightson
2) Jack Kirby
3) Frank Frazetta
4) George Perez
5) Wally Wood

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Huge Ottley Fan!...Love his work on Invincible, and A Signed Copy of his TWD #100 cover is one of the center pieces in my office

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All time five? Hmmm..that is tough. I have always admired guys like Jack Kirby, Sal Buscema, and Herb Trimpe growing up. Guys I like now..the late Michael Turner, David Finch, Jim Lee, Doug Manke and Ivan Reis. One of the main reasons I have read a lot of DC titles these past four or five years.

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