Favorite Spider-Man Penciller

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

For my money, I'd say Romita Sr. Ditko established the "look" of the character, but I think Romita really improved on it a lot.

[Guest raptor]

Romita Sr. is my pick. His work is one of the most recognizable I've ever seen, and I think he defined the style of Spider-Man the most out of all his artists.

 

I've never like Jr. at all, for some reason. He's a good storyteller, but I dislike the look and feel of his art.

 

Where's Bagely? I've always liked his Spidey. Not the best, but I think he tells a really good story, and deserves mention, at least.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Umm, I forgot Bagely. Pencil him in if you want him.

[Guest Sassquatch]

Mark Bagley.

 

His Spider-Man became one of the most recognizable art renderings of the '90's and while there were other artists who had their own defined version of Spider-Man, Bagley's carried the book throughout the 90's with his quasi-manga style of drawing faces, limbs and other extremities.

 

Honorable mention goes to Steve Ditko, John Romita Sr. and Jr. and last but not least, Erik Larsen.

[Guest starvenger]

Mark Bagley. I'd say that he took McFarlane's Spidey and cleaned it up into a very nice package.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Mark Bagley. I'd say that he took McFarlane's Spidey and cleaned it up into a very nice package.

You could probobly say the same thing about Larsen.

[Guest starvenger]

Mark Bagley.  I'd say that he took McFarlane's Spidey and cleaned it up into a very nice package.

You could probobly say the same thing about Larsen.

Yes, I suppose you could, but I never really liked Larsen's work on Spidey. Maybe it was the way he drew the women or something, I dunno.

[Guest Annoyed Grunt]

When did Miller do Spider-man?

[Guest HellSpawn]

Yes Regis is my last answer...

 

Todd McFarlane.

 

Oh and about Miller, he draw just a few Spidey issues, Ithink under Peter David or Denny O'Neil scripts. I dunno if it was before or post DD. Maybe before.

[Guest HellSpawn]

After a few minutes, damn, there are so many good Spidey pencilers...

 

Like you say Bagley or Tom Lyle.

 

I just feel a little bad when you picked Miller and Byrne over Bagley.

[Guest pochorenella]

It's a real toss up for me, but I'll go with JRJR by a hair over JRSR and Mark Bagley.

 

And I did Like McFarlane's run on both Spidey titles, just not enough to put him over the other three.

 

Tom Lyle I didn't like one bit.

 

And hey, nobody's mentioned Mike Weiringo! He had a pretty short but great run with Spidey ( I can't recall which title exactly).

[Guest raptor]

Since somebody finally mentioned JRJR as their favorite, I must ask:

 

Why? I've never seen anything great about his pencils. He's always seemed "adequate" to me.

[Guest Luke Cage]

Gotta go with Steve Ditko. I like Gil Kane's stuff too.

 

Where was Al Milgrom? j/k

[Guest converge241]

I went todd for the amazing days (before todd started "writing" on Spider-Man

 

Mark Bagley would be my second

[Guest pochorenella]

Since somebody finally mentioned JRJR as their favorite, I must ask:

 

Why? I've never seen anything great about his pencils. He's always seemed "adequate" to me

 

Why not?

 

First, I must say that I completely HATED Romita jr on his first X-Men run. He was ok with me on Iron Man, but the inks really overshadowed his style. But then he came back a few years later to X-Men and I thought to myself "Wow, this guy's really improved a lot".

Then he moved over to Spidey and I found his style to be just perfect for the character. His sense of storytelling really blows me away and he hasn't stalled as an artist, he continues to impress me every time. Keep in mind that he handled TWO high-profile titles at the same time a couple of years back (Amazing and Thor) and he didn't dissapoint then either. His Thor was one of the best in recent memory IMO. And then he left Thor and went to Hulk without missing a beat.

 

His Spider-Man looks perfect and acts/moves perfect (not too exaggerated like TMF). His Peter Parker too (you can see the influence from JRSR on both counts, which is good).

 

John Romita jr. gets my vote.

[Guest Sassquatch]

Compared to some of the other Spidey artists, Jr. is a step above a number of them. But beyond that, I have never really liked his work since his weird way of shading along with his generic facial expressions have always left me flat.

[Guest Special K]

Mark Bagley, though I'm not really familiar with a couple on the list.

 

I liked Bagley's Spider-man the best, and he drew faces quite consistently and expressively, plus he knew how to exagerate bodies subtly, instead of just piling muscles on top of muscles.

 

Plus he does BY FAR the best Venom. no one comes close.

[Guest Sassquatch]

When did Miller do Spider-man?

 

Miller worked on issues #27 and #28 of Spectacular Spider-Man. Issue #27 was also Miller's first work on Daredevil because a year and a half later he would become the writer/artist on Daredevil from issues #158 to #191 of Daredevil and later #227 to #233.