RIP Neal Adams. A legend in the comic book field and a real life super hero who fought for injustice to the creators of Superman Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Neal, not only the first contemporary artist of the Silver Age but a game-changer when it comes to the most significant impact on the business-end of the industry for creators. Thank you, Neal. We pray you'll never be forgotten.

Neal Adams was the greatest comic book artist of his time. He remains one of my all-time favorites. His DC work in legendary.

I was born in 1980, and I grew up reading Neal's comic boks... Neal's Batman is my favourit and my my Standard version!!! I'm very sad!!

A true iconoclastic talent . May he RIP. Thanks now

Wow! Didn`t hear about this till now. For us guys who started reading comics in the 60s, Neal was a god. His use of shadow, anatomy & perspective was groundbreaking. Everything he touched was golden & to top it off he could paint too. No genre that he wasn`t a master. My only favorite from that period, Steranko, is left now. R.I.P.

I'm still in shock! "Legend" don't even begin to describe this man and his legacy!

No one thinks you are cashing in sir. This is a tribute from one artist to another. I was fortunate to get Neal Adams sign one of my favorite Batman covers in 2007.

Met him 50 years ago. Still haven't gotten over it.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

Hearing he passed away made me sick to my stomach. So bummed. He was incredible. Where did you meet him?

The guy was a true legend. Impossible to forget his style and his narrative sense!

Rest in heaven Mr Adams. A superb artist and inspiration.

Gone but never forgotten.

RIP Neal Adams

He had an understanding of composition and form that made the theatricality of his precisely drawn figures sing. It always feels like they are taking up 3D space with minimal fuss.

RIP Neal Adams. :(

R.I.P. Neal Adams, I met him at the Baltimore Comic-Con years ago, what a nice individual and a truly amazing artist.

Neal Adam's is the reason I started collecting comics in the 1970s. My favorite artist and was fortunate enough to meet him several times at cons. I was fortunate enough to get a couple Batman head sketches and have a bunch of signed comics and lithographs. It was great talking to him while he did my sketches. I will miss him and he was a champion for artist rights.

RIP Mr Adams, one of the greatest figure artists ever. I follow Neal on Instagram and I could see the past year really took a toll on him but I always thought he'd be around forever.

Sad news to hear. R.I.P. ADAMS 🙏

R.I.P. to another Legend lost.🙏

RIP Neal Adams. Learning the sad news through this video that, with the respect shown, is a lot better than learning from a random tweet.

RIP Neal.

RIP Legend ;_;7

Rest In Peace to an undisputed great of the craft, Neal Adams!!

I just found out about the passing of our dear #NealAdams . I am really very sad. His art accompanied me since I was a child, despite the thousands of kilometers that separated us, his talent came to me in the comicbooks that fed our creative impulses. Thank you for so much, master, Rest in peace. My condonlences for the family

I like the covers he did for The Witching Hour. I had him sign one of those for me the last time I saw him in Detroit.

The most naturalist artist in comics IMO. I remember seeing Deadman the first time, blew me away.

man i didnt know, he was such a great artist he really inspires me.

THANKS FOR THE LOVE FOR NEAL HE WAS WAS ONE ONE OF KIDS LINK LEN WEIN AND MYSELF WHO WERE WOODCHUCKS AT MARVEL AND DC WITH JOE KUBERT. SEE YOU GUYS AT THE BIG CON IN THE SKY.

I got a signed sketchbook of his fairly recently. Always admired his work.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

I have a pretty good Neal Adams collection. He's definitely a keeper when you pick up something from him. What year did he publish the sketchbook?

When you see .. " The Crusty Bunkers " .. Neal Adams would ink the main stuff , that gives it the Neal Adams " Look" , other inkers of his studio would then do the " Grunt Work " , filling in Blacks , etc .. etc ...

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah thank you. I didn't know the Crusty Bunker concept. Surprised I'd never heard of that. Makes sense and would be an efficient way to work!

Man, I just saw the news.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

definitely

Thanks for sharing this. Its nice to mourn/celebrate his work in real time

Thanks so much for this. He was just as influential as an advocate for creator rights; it was Neal who got Siegel and Schuster a stipend from DC so they could at least live comfortably in their later years. He got a lot of younger artists into the business, often by working on their first jobs to push them along. He definitely had a big influence on the production standards, sometimes showing the old pros who never progressed in comics what he'd learned in advertising about what could be done with color seps and shooting negatives. About Wrightson: Neal was in the business just a little ahead of Bernie, but I'm sure he had an influence on a lot of younger guys, because he was bringing in a new level of drama. Wrightson inked him on Green Lantern/Green Arrow #84 and, a favorite of mine, an El Diablo story in Weird Western # 12. He was an amazing cover artist during those early DC years, and I'd like to see some coverage on his covers for DC's genre anthology books in the late 60's/early 70's. His Batman covers are pretty well-known, as are many of the Horror/Mystery comics. But he did some really powerful covers for Tomahawk, a Revolutionary War book of all things, late in his run.# 116 has the look of a Remington painting.

Neal Adams was awesome. Did you notice that he had a preference for drawing scenes from a low point of view looking up, making characters look larger than life?

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

great observation!

What’s up Dude!!! RIP too a legend very inventive artist who fought the good fight

@arthurtripp6922

2 жыл бұрын

REMBER HOW FORCED DC TO PAY THE CREATORS OF SUPERMAN.

Damn.

You're not cashing in. Don't worry about it. I saw your Instagram post and started crying at work. Please do Neal again for Super Fun Sunday. Break out some raw pencils and teach us the gospel.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

I cried after my friend told me. It was unexpected. You kind of imagine some of these guys will be around forever. Neal looked very young for his age and always very strong...so the idea he'd pass away just never occurred to me. Then it just was there and you go...damnit.

@Hum0ng0us

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichardFriendartist You me going again too dammit. lol He's one of those guys I just never thought to think even could die. I've got a sketchbook by him and just love it. He, Mike Mignola, and Todd McFarlane are the guys I want to be whenever I draw.

Super bummed out man 😢😢🥺🥺 great video!! Thanks Rich!!

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RIP to this legend! :(

Rip I didn't know:,(

😢

thanks for the video rich.

The Doctor Strange page is inked by Continuity Studio's (Neal's) Crusty Bunkers, as is the Lilith page (which was probably penciled by Bob Brown).

Sad to hear.

Wrightson inked some of Neals Green Lantern pages.

The DR strange page says crusty bunkers that’s his inking group 👍

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

oh I see. thank you. I was a little confused on that. Which is why the comment section on these videos is always so awesome!

Looks like his art style is based on Frazetta. I think Frazetta is the origin of these type of art style in the 70's - 80's and maybe all the way to the 90's.

I think Wrightson was shaped more by a Joseph Clement Col type influence. Adams seemed to me to distill and extrapolate more of the Alex Raymond rendering.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

OK cool. Thanks for that insight. We might need to do videos on both!!

Died, wow. . Why so many do not live long !?!. His wife single ?