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PERFECT 13: THE ARTIST I TOTAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL

If throughout this collection of posts we've seen the ideal or perfect for artists each gender, horror, science fiction, noir, western, super-heroes, etc ... Now is the time to see what the cartoonists or better indicated to illustrate any type of comic. And when I say all kinds of comics, I do not mean that they are very well known artists and their artistic level is undisputed or versatile as to record changes in style, if not it is fully proved that they are artists able to scratch the top-level drawing comics of any genre or style (and care, there are great artists that will not scratch at the highest level drawing any comic), are super-heroes, comic book detective, horror, humor, adventures in general ... In short, we are looking at the most perfect artist in the perfect ... Or perhaps the most perfect is not what it is capable of being the best (or one of the best) showing any kind of comic imaginable?. At least in my humble opinion, this would be the best of all, the total artist.

This last financial year or final fireworks, as whichever you prefer, be divided into three posts. This, where you can find artists ranging from 25 to 16 (although not numbered, as are, so to speak, the runners). A second post, the next, where will the 15 to 6, this time already numbered (it is wet ...). And one last thing post with the winners, the top 5.

Although first of all go with a bit of statistics (like us), although not entirely reliable, something has to do, because if there are artists who have appeared in several Tops 5 generic, it is clear that at least are versatile and able to be among the best of all time in more than one genre. Although not definitive or fully defining, here are the artists that have been most successful so far:

WINNERS BY GENDER

> Super-heroes: Jack Kirby - John Byrne (tied)
> Science-fiction: Wally Wood - Richard Corben (tied)
> Terror: Bernie Wrightson
> Heroic Fantasy: John Buscema
> Noir : Alex Raymond - Gene Colan (tied)
> Western: José Luis Salinas
> Cartoon-caricature: Will Eisner
Adventures: Alex Raymond
> History: Harold Foster
> Romantic: John Romita
> Slice of life: Will Eisner - Jiro Taniguchi (tied)
> Unclassifiable-Surrealist: Sergio Toppi - Bill Sienkiewicz (tied)

* Important to note that Alex Raymond and Will Eisner were the only ones able to win two different genres (in both cases one of the two wins was shared) .

ARTISTS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN MORE THAN A TOP 5
(Remember that both the super-heroic genre as "unclassifiable Surrealists were Top 10)

> 3 Features: John Buscema, Neal Adams and Moebius.

> 2 Features: Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, John Romita, Barry Windsor-Smith, Frank Frazetta, Gene Colan, Richard Corben, Alex Raymond, Harold Foster, Jose Luis Salinas, Antonio Hernández Palacios, Jordi Bernet and Mike Mignola.

No more, no statistics are worth ... The countdown begins!

FROM 25 TO 16 (FREE NUMBERING ORDER)

- MAC Raboy