Oh wow! I stand corrected. Thank you so much! They are very similar though, aren't they? This guy I have to look into immediately. It can be so hard to garner information on the Japanese artists of this era, a lot of time they don't have much of a web presence, so it can be quite a puzzle figuring out who did what. I…

For sure. I love Nobuteru Yuuki. I have not seen any of his recent work however, since my anime interest waned in later years and I don't keep up with it as much. It's aways a treat discovering one of his pieces though. It's just beautiful stuff. :)

Sure thing man! There are plenty of unsung heroes of our youth that deserve to be celebrated. The artwork meant so much for the whole gaming experience. :)

Yep! :)

The american comic depicted in this article was mostly based on Zelda 2 from what I remember. A Link to the past wasn't out yet, but Nintendo Power's excellent Shotaro Ishinomori comic was a re-telling of the SNES game.

Best Zelda comic ever drawn and written. Masterpiece by Shotaro Ishimori, who is one of the elder gods of manga. It's a shame Nintendo never collaborated with that level of talent again. High-profile Nintendo comics would have been awesome. :)

Always nice to get an opportunity to discuss old school Japanese Illustrators. The painting at the top of this article is by Jun Suemi who did a ton of fantasy covers and videogame illustration back in the day. All the "Brandish" games and the "Guin Saga" books for example. He has an oil painterly style not too common…

I never saw Record of Lodoss war, but certainly kept seeing Nobuteru Yuuki's artwork all over the anime and gaming magazines. Yuuki is an incredibly skilled illustrator who worked on many awesome projects like Battle Angel Alita and lot's of Square classics, like Chrono Chross and Secret of Mana. I was raised on this…

It's hard to tell because of the blurry photo, but that looks like Hitoshi Yoneda artwork to me.

Ted Cruz. The adversary of scientists and explorers everywhere. He would be more fitting as a chairman of an inquisition instead.

I have a very complicated relationship to modernist architecture... Kenzo Tange has some cool designs, but I absolutely hate concrete as a building material. Even though the structures feature some nice, graphic shapes, the material ages poorly, looks dirty and discolored and in short time ends up looking like some…

Sure, but that argument can be made about most artistic expressions. Which musicians led up to which famous bands and performers? While Peanuts might have paved the way or been more widespread during Schultz career, Calvin is superior in just about every regard. Watterson was so good at drawing that he could have…

Actually yes it was explored earlier and it DID look cooler. Denis Beauvais did an amazing job on the painted graphic novel Nightmare Asylum. But Marek Okon is a good artist too.

Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes belong in the pantheon of the TRULY great american comics of all time. He's up there when discussing Windsor McCay's "Little Nemo" or Herriman's "Krazy Kat". "Calvin..." exists in a league WAY beyond his contemporaries like Peanuts or Garfield. It was a cartoon strip made art in the…

The animator situation in Japan must improve. If it means finding another sales model for the shows, government subsidies or something, things have to change. And no wonder that anime is in decline, both in quality and popularity/cultural significance when conditions are as bad as any central asian factory slave…

Yeah, I'd say it's actually a really good model for fighting games. Yo get to learn each character one by one, you're not overwhelmed by the roster initially, and each month a new trailer and character comes out, keeping the game in the spotlight and fans energized.

Yeah. Maybe the question should be "what's the best modern cartoon". Because as great as Batman, Avatar, etc is. They can't compare to something like Looney Tunes or the classic Disney shorts. And the animators themselves would be the first to acknowledge that.

I gotta hit the sack, but here's another issue I have with this scenario. I wrote this elsewhere in this article as well. (And strange that I should try to silence a majority of people commentating by the way...)

I think it's very charming and I like your clean, animation style! Would make for a good 2nd costume in a new game. :)

My, our, personal dislike for the ludicrousness of the modern artworld should not be applied to Anna's unassuming drawings though. I'll copy paste what I wrote elsewhere to see if you agree: