Top Ten Tuesday: Best Current Artists

By Jeff Hill Features 01/28/2014

Welcome back to all of my friends, fans, colleagues, and internet adversaries! A new week means a new topic. So let’s quit wasting time and get to it.

Now, I was thinking… I focus a whole lot on writing for, well, a majority of my time reporting, reviewing, and listing. And made me realize something: that’s totally unfair. It’s not on purpose, but I suppose it’s just kind of how we’re all trained to talk about comics. I mean, it is a visual medium, yes, but for the most part, the art is either good, okay, or great. Or Rob Liefeld.

Anywho, it’s only fair that I cover the other end of the creative team spectrum. And since last week’s Top Ten Tuesday was about writers, this week’s list, in no particular order, will focus on artists.

This week’s top ten, in no particular order: Best current artists.

1. Patrick Zircher (The Flash)

2. Greg Capullo (Batman)

3. Michael Lark (Lazarus)

4. Jim Lee (Superman Unchained)

5. Jesus Saiz (Swamp Thing)

6. J. H. Williams III (The Sandman: Overture)

7. David Finch (Forever Evil)

8. Patrick Gleason (Batman and Robin)

9. Ivan Reis (Justice League)

10. Steve Epting (Velvet)

And there they are. Agree? Great! Disagree? Too bad! You’ll have to wait until the weekend to voice that opinion. See you for the same question, in debate format, for this week’s Stir the Pot Saturday.

Previous installments of Top Ten Tuesday.

Jeff Hill / About Author

Jeff Hill is a moderately reformed frat boy turned writer who left teaching after 10 years to split his time between Nebraska and New York and focus on his writing career. His work has appeared in dozens of publications and his mom has a binder full of copies for any doubters. He is the Chief Creative Officer of Comic Booked and is currently pitching the novels Dead Facebook Friends and Dead Week to agents in New York and Los Angeles. Jeff is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a regular participant of the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Seminar for Writers, and a past faculty member of the Writer’s Hotel. He can be found on both Twitter and Patreon as jeffhillwriter.

Comments (4)

Julien Loeper

01/28/2014 at 12:17 pm

Zircher should be replaced with Manapul for Flash imo his and Booch’s layouts and coloring respectively were sick for the issues they did.

Kelly Cassidy

01/28/2014 at 12:47 pm

I would arguably remove David Finch from that list, as he hasn’t truly impressed me in quite some time. Like, years. I’d love to put Kevin Maguire on the list, but unfortunately he didn’t make the cut to Justice League 3000 and a single issue on GotG doesn’t cut it either. Humberto Ramos should be a serious contender for the list, though, after his continual amazing work on Superior Spidey, and Char Hardin is doing an amazing job on the new Harley Quinn book – some of my favourite art out there today!

Colonus AE

01/28/2014 at 2:02 pm

Someone likes his DC superheroes! 😉 With that in mind, can’t leave Jae Lee of this list. I’d also find room for Mignola (his “Hellboy in Hell” has raised his personal bar to new heights) and Allred (no one draws like him, the tone of his art actually changes the written word).

Jackson Archibald

03/09/2014 at 4:33 pm

That Liefeld pic. LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!

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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Current Artists

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