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This thread is now about who the greatest actors ever are. Paul Giamatti's on that list somewhere. :)
 
As much as I hate to admit it, my idol, John K. is a bit of a lolcow.
Too much of a perfectionist while wanting things to be off model, very grumpy and opinionated (like me) and despite his talents, his attitude hasn't let him go big since Ren and Stimpy.
I still admire the guy since he got me back into drawing and I can relate to his shitty personality.
Edit: I sometimes have nightmares where John calls my art shit or that I get fired from Spumco for making a bad idea for Ren and Stimpy or for drawing something on model
 
I would say *cringe* Tim Buckley *cringe* because of A. His gaming webcomic Ctrl Alt Delete being a shitty knockoff of Penny Arcade and B. that same comic being infamous for the miscarriage plot among other asinine tasteless plots that no good comic writer would ever publish even as a joke!

Oh and Buckley himself much like his mary sue character Ethan is a total douchebag!

His ED page could explain in better detail both his fail of a "gaming" webcomic and the scumbag himself in far better detail.
 
Didn't the Dilbert guy get into some bitchy internet drama or something?
 
Inb4 Andrew Dobson
But seriously folks, what about Rob Liefeld? Also, Bill Watterson is a cool guy and Calvin and Hobbes is awesome, but he's reacted in weird ways to criticism, and eventually, Calvin and Hobbes turned into a soapbox for his troubles.
 
Abethedemon said:
Inb4 Andrew Dobson
But seriously folks, what about Rob Liefeld? Also, Bill Watterson is a cool guy and Calvin and Hobbes is awesome, but he's reacted in weird ways to criticism, and eventually, Calvin and Hobbes turned into a soapbox for his troubles.
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Fuck yeah! You can't have a thread about wacky cartoonists without at least one mention of good ol Rob Liefeld!

For the uninitiated, Rob Liefeld was all the rage in Marvel Comics as well as Image back in the 90's. Many considered him to be one of hottest artists of his time. However, once you look past all the sexy babes in skin tight outfits and muscular tough looking dudes carrying 10 different types of knives and guns, you will no doubt notice that....


Mr. Liefeld can't draw proper anatomy to save his life! *gasp* B-b-but h-h-how i-is that even...p-p-possible!? Marvel would NEVER hire a guy who thinks its a good idea to defy the rules of proper anatomy much less hates drawing peoples feet right? (Yes, one of Rob's many art flaws is that the guy despises drawing feet and for the most part tries to get out of it by taking shortcuts such as drawing smoke or whatever to obscure the character's feet) Haha...get out of here! Marvel will hire pretty much anyone who's art wasn't colored in with Crayola crayons and knows enough about photoshop/Manga Studio to get where they are going! Laughably bad anatomy aside, Rob Liefeld is all style, no substance in his art! Seriously, the guy's thought process when he's hired to draw something for a comic book company goes presumably like this.

Marvel: Greetings Liefeld, we would like you to draw (X amount) of issues of (insert comic book title here). Are you up for the task?

Rob L: Sure no problem!

(later at his place)

Rob L: Hmmm.... The script calls for a big muscular guy who's a merc. Better draw lots of pouches for him to carry his ammo and throwing knives!

Rob L: Oh, and I better make this super heroine look sexy. (whips out digitally retouched swimsuit issue of sports illustrated) Oh....I forgot. Can't draw feet! Too much work! (scribbles something out of place to hide feet)

(Back at Marvel)

Colorist: *sigh* not this guy.....

Editor: *shrugs* You know the deal, make the best of what we are given!

Colorist: Okayyyyy! *tries to color to the best of his ability to hide as many of Liefeld's mistakes as possible*

Of course talking about Rob Liefeld doesn't do his horrible art justice. His work has to be seen to be believed which thankfully there are two different lists detailing 40 pieces each of his worst drawings for those who are bad enough dudes to check it out!

http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/4/21/2960508/worst-rob-liefeld-drawings
 
Henry Bemis said:
Ted Rall was touched upon in the dormant Cole Smithey thread. From what was shared, it's pretty clear why they're BFFLs.
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Ted Rall is definitely cow material. There was the repulsive attack comic on Patrick Tillman just after he got killed, for instance, which completely misrepresented the guy as a murderous buffoon. At least he apologized for that.

But he also does the full panoply of stupid cow tricks, up to and including the Internet lolsuit threat when people call him out on his shit. He is one of the few people who managed to get in a fight with Ann Coulter where Coulter came across as the sane one.

He is a genuine embarrassment to the left.

It's also not that he's completely untalented or has never made a funny strip, but his own personal malfunctions and meltdowns are usually funnier.
 
Rall also had a recent snit writing for Pando. He wrote articles with titles like "Am I crazy for being pretty sure the NSA is gaslighting me?," and was so unstable and crazy it took less than a month before he was fired.

I tried to get an article about him on the Rational Wiki, but it deteriorated into a suck-off for him almost immediately. The Rational Wiki itself is pretty embarrassing, and I know almost no one cares about it anymore, but I was still stunned to see he had fans.
 
Ruin said:
He got into a internet slap fight with sjws. I don't count that because seriously fuck those people.
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But Scott Adams also tried to remove a parody of Dilbert for copyright infringement. It is called The Dilbert Hole, and it was just taking Dilbert strips and making them.... well, funny. More perverted, too. He then sent the following message

"Do you want to go to jail?" -Scott Adams.

Since that didn't make any sense to the guy doing The Dilbert Hole, he sent this.

"Of course not. I don't wanna be a martyr for Dilbert."
 
RogerRabbit1988 said:
But Scott Adams also tried to remove a parody of Dilbert for copyright infringement. It is called The Dilbert Hole, and it was just taking Dilbert strips and making them.... well, funny. More perverted, too. He then sent the following message

"Do you want to go to jail?" -Scott Adams.

Since that didn't make any sense to the guy doing The Dilbert Hole, he sent this.

"Of course not. I don't wanna be a martyr for Dilbert."
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Yea ok he's an ass.
 
Scott Adams also managed to piss off feminists and MRAs in the same blog post.
 
Abethedemon said:
Also, Bill Watterson is a cool guy and Calvin and Hobbes is awesome, but he's reacted in weird ways to criticism, and eventually, Calvin and Hobbes turned into a soapbox for his troubles.
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Yeah, I remember reading somewhere that he thought that comic books couldn't be serious art. I always found that a tad bewildering and hypocritical considering that he's waved the "Newspaper strips can be art" banner for a long time. Then there's the C&H strips where he lays down some really fervent rants about modern art that I've always find more off-putting than funny.

I've got to admire Watterson for his intelligence, talent and sense of humor. He's brilliant but I feel like he gets too caught up in the madness of being an artist sometimes.
 
@Konstantinos: There's an entire school of thought that comic books are inferior to newspaper comics. The first history of comic art ever written praised newspaper comics to high heaven, but deemed all comic books to be cheap junk.
 
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