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Yes, Kobe, I'm looking for more Buscema line work. I never really warmed up to BWS, whose proportions, especially in the Avengers stuff I am most familiar with, were 'wonky' to put it charitably. I did enjoy some of the work he did for Jim Shooter and the Valiant line, though. He matured as an artist into quite a different hand, much more assured and convincing.
It's interesting to look at these drawings as plain b&w to me, because the line becomes so important. Maybe I sound like an old codger, but few artists today approach the pen and ink drawing qualities of Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Wally Wood, etc... Why? just because the technology of reproduction is so good that you don't need to finish the drawing. The talent is out there, but today you can draw in outlines and let somebody in Photoshop do the rendering. It won't be long before 3D CAD images, flattened out 'Flash' style become a house style for comics. I can see it coming.
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Um, so did you get the Essential Howard or didn't you? 
Changing topics, if BWS' work in Avengers from the late 60s is the one you're "most familiar with", I DO hope you've checked the artwork he did for the last couple of Conan issues he did (the first year he was still aping Kirby, and not very succesfully. I agree with you his proportions were a bit off), or his work throughout the 80s, sporadic enough as it was. The gorgeous short stories from Epic Illustrated. He did a couple of isolated X-Men issues, #186 & #198, (Lifedeath & Lifedeath II) which were beautiful. The recently-released Adastra in Africa HC was originally intended to be Lifedeath III once upon a time, but Marvel thought the content a bit risque. (The lead character was Storm in her "Mohawk" days, so she became the Adastra character from his Young Gods series). I don't know if you ever bought or managed to read through an issue of the BWS Storyteller series from Dark Horse (a dozen oversized volumes saw print). It had three serials, The Young Gods, Freebooters and Paradoxman.
Beautiful, ornate work.
The recent Opus two-volume series of hardcovers show most of his Pre-Raphaelite art from the past twenty years.
I don't want to appear stubborn, if you don't like his stuff that's fine, but if you've only seen his Avengers stuff, or the early Conan (and the Valiant from the 90s), you really owe it to yourself to sample some more of it.
(Did you ever get the Buscema Sketchbook from Vanguard Press? That one had tons of b&w work)
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I did get the Buscema sketchbook and liked it a lot, also enjoyed the Roy Thomas tribute to JB in Alter Ego.
I have not gotten the Essential Howard The Duck yet...I live in San Francisco where the memory of the wasted time and effort lavished on movie (shot locally) lingers bitterly, so Duck stuff is not popular here and is hard to find...
I did however read a great review of the Barry Windsor Smith stuff on the Last Gasp website and I intend to check it out. Anything that's an hommage to Jack Kirby ought to be pretty good.
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