Personally, when I was younger, I had similar issues: Trimpe's style seemed too close to Jack Kirby's for me to feel truly comfortable with. Certainly, there was energy there, but both artists seemed too...blocky in their visuals for my tastes of the moment. Trimpe, I later found, needed the right inkers to solve that issue for me, particularly the likes of Bob McLeod (http://bobmcleod.com/), as I found in G.I. Joe(Marvel v.1) # 1. Kirby? Well, it took his earlier work from the early 1960's to get my appreciation.
Well, apart from the framing of the panels, I just never liked Trimpe's faces (all his superhero work seemed to have grimaces on them that were as bad as Leifeld's) or hands.
I don't know where Liefeld got his influences from.
But I do know in the 90s an editor told Trimpe to make his art look more like Liefelds, telling him it would boost sales on the book and make him more popular.
He tried. To say the results looked horrible would be an understatement. His career as a comic artist was effectively killed.
He then became a teacher and now he's writing.
Oh and thanks for pointing this out Dwight, I'm now interviewing Herb Trimpe for next issues CollectorTimes.com :)
I didn't like Trimpe as much as I liked some later Hulk artists, even Sal Buscema, but he was a good match for the subject. And I hope that Marvel tosses some cash his way occasionally for co-creating Wolverine. (After all, Cassaday is using a Wolverine costume that's closer to Trimpe's for AXM...)
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Date: 2006-03-26 10:28 pm (UTC)People used to recommend his FF or Hulk work and I'd look at it and try to see why I'd been recommended it... to this day I'm still wondering...
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Date: 2006-03-26 11:12 pm (UTC)Personally, when I was younger, I had similar issues: Trimpe's style seemed too close to Jack Kirby's for me to feel truly comfortable with. Certainly, there was energy there, but both artists seemed too...blocky in their visuals for my tastes of the moment. Trimpe, I later found, needed the right inkers to solve that issue for me, particularly the likes of Bob McLeod (http://bobmcleod.com/), as I found in G.I. Joe(Marvel v.1) # 1. Kirby? Well, it took his earlier work from the early 1960's to get my appreciation.
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Date: 2006-03-27 12:21 pm (UTC)But I do know in the 90s an editor told Trimpe to make his art look more like Liefelds, telling him it would boost sales on the book and make him more popular.
He tried. To say the results looked horrible would be an understatement. His career as a comic artist was effectively killed.
He then became a teacher and now he's writing.
Oh and thanks for pointing this out Dwight, I'm now interviewing Herb Trimpe for next issues CollectorTimes.com :)
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