On the subject of Rob … here’s another link. You make up your own mind.
My fav comic artists have already been mentioned. 
TELL US: Who are the BEST Comic Book/ Comic Strip Artists?
Enayla
#42
My favourite graphic novel as to date has to be The Compleat Moonshadow (gah, the spelling of ‘complete’ gets to me every time, I hate writing it like that, ha ha)
It is so beautifully drawn that it is almost ridiculous. It’s funny, sad, and intriguing. I love and hate some of the characters equally and at the end of the book, I always wish it wouldn’t end.
John J Muth and John Marc DeMatteis make such a wonderful team. Ah, now I think I shall have to re-read the book again :love:
EricUNSL
#43
OMG!!!I didn’t know it was that bad. Ok I now retract all earlier statements. He should be ashamed of himself. I would never hire a copyright liability artist like this. Wow. Thanks for the education. I have that issue of youngblood where he ripped that panel from DC comics.
jcorkery
#45
OK, maybe this guy wasn’t mentioned because he’s probably the least prolific comic book artist of all time, but I think he’s one of the best and I wish I could get my hands on more of his stuff, especially illustration and cover work:
DAVE STEVENS!
P.S. I also used to love Berni Wrightson and Richard Corben.
SpeccySteve
#46
First ones that spring to mind…
Mark Harrison
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~pypmsa/artist/mharrison/mharrisonf.html
Dave Mckean
http://www.mckean-art.co.uk/
http://www.dreamline.nu/
Simon Bisley
MadMax
#47
Funny thing is, that link only provides the smallest fraction of ripped off artwork. There were literally hundreds upon hundreds of pages of art like that. Plus numerous covers.
THAT is why there are so many Rob haters.
mahir
#48
Waitaminit i didn’t know Neil Gaiman drew comics?
I thought he had guest artists do all his Sandman stuff that’s how i remember it reading them all. It was cool he had different artists interpret his stories. Added to the concept of the title i felt. I remember he had one guy (Zulli?) who drew the last few issues that were basically all pencil work and no inks. His artwork was wonderfully intricate.
As for Liefield, i never liked his artwork back then when his books were all the rage (i still can’t fathom what all the adoration was about). Small heads with limited expressions on bulky oversized shoulders tottering on tapered legs with brittle ankles and big feet. I just don’t get it. At least to me it meant i at least had some taste even back then 
dmonk
#49
Yeah, back when I started collecting I really liked his stuff, but as I got older and seeing more good illustrator, I noticed theat Rob had a kind of formula in how he drew his characters and I stared to see that he repeated his poses very often in different books that he did. I haven’t bought one of his books in years. I honestly never realized that they were straight rip offs until I saw that link about 30 minutes ago.
mahir
#51
Yeah man, Dave McKean is super surrealistically cool!
I wanted to put his name in but forgot. Good one.
Boone
#52
Hmmmmm…
Cam Kennedy ( Dark Empire series )
Masamune Shirow( Orion, Appleseed, Black Magic…)
Kenichi Sonoda( Gunsmith Cats! )
Kosuke Fujishima( Admidst all the violent’n’brutal shit in my collection, I still have a place for Oh My Goddess! )
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto( Evangelion )
Yu Watasi( Fushigi Yugi )
Hiroyuki Utatane( Seraphic Feather )
“The guys who made the Asterisk comics”…the most awesome comics in the whole world! 
Sil3
#53
OMG i forgot Cam Kennedy…shame on me 
Uderzo (Asterix) is a legeng for a couple years now, but Asterix stories suffered when Goscinny died …same happened to Blueberry when Jean-Michel Charlier died. Without this two most talented writers none of the series i mentioned would have the impact they did.
Ilikesoup
#54
Here’s a few names I haven’t seen yet:
Comic Strips:
Jimmy Johnson (Arlo & Janis)
Patrick McDonnell (Mutts)
Pat Brady (I think that’s who does “Rose is Rose” http://www.nightswimming.com/rose/pasqual.html)
Comic books/Graphic Novels:
Charles Vess (Sandman-Midsummer Night’s Dream)
P Craig Russell (Sandman-Ramadan)
*we could have a whole separate category for Sandman artists
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Eric Powell (Goon)
Jeff Smith (Bone)
Rumiko Takahashi (Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha)
Dave Sim (Cerebus)
Matt Wagner (Grendel, Mage)
Larry Marder (Beanworld)
Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, Zot!)
Eric Powell (Why I Hate Saturn, Plasticman)
STAN SAKAI ! ! (Usagi Yojimbo) [size=2][color=white]Sorry, didn’t want him to be overlooked. [/color][/size]
As for the great Rob Liefeld debate, for me he was the Kenny G. of comics. It’s not a crime that he was a bad artist who had little knowledge of human anatomy. It’s since he was extremely popular, one couldn’t avoid seeing his work and he led good kids to make bad drawings. I hadn’t known that he ripped off so many poses but his characters were unoriginal and his style was a poor imitation of Todd McFarlane’s.
Boone
#55
Re: Sil3.
Yeah, I noticed one or two new Asterisk comics once in a while…the first 20 or 30 were the best ones, though.
A little trip down memory lane, but when I was young( wayyy back in the 80s) I use to cherish the times watching my brother copy pictures from the Asterisk books…my brother was simply a ****ing awesome artist back then. I really wished he kept it up…but he failed to enter an art college and I really think it hurt him badly. I think my favourite picture he copied was one of Asterisk and Obelisk coming back to the village with wild boars under their arms…
Supervlieg
#57
Just a few from the top of my head.
Don Lawrence
Simon Bisley
Alex Ross
Katsuhiro Ôtomo (Akira)
Yukito Kishiro (Battle Angel Alita)
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
slaughters
#58
Silly people. It’s not the artists who is important to a Comic Book. It’s the writer.
Warren Ellis - really enjoyed almost everything he has worked on (especialy “Planetary”): http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?cat=5
FutureTense
#60
Frank Cho is great. I don’t follow comic books quite as much as I perhaps would like to, but I’ve always liked Marc Silvestri’s work (Darkness, Cyber Force, and probably every other Top Cow comic series). And I’m also a big fan of Phil Foglio http://www.studiofoglio.com.