crom wrote:
John Buscema is overrated - he skimped on background more often than not.


Buscema skimped on a lot of stuff, but that doesn't mean he was over-rated. When lay-outing for competent delineators, he put in everything necessary for effective storytelling.

Buscema was the consummate professional, more intent on making a decent livelihood than creating lasting comic art.
He managed to both, but his achievements would've been even greater had he been in the circumstances that allowed him to take more time and ink more of his work.
Sadly, time was a luxury comic artists with a family like Buscema, Kirby and Colan, could ill afford.

That's one of the reasons Gil Kane was allegedly so hostile to young Turks like Barry Smith, because they could take the time to lavish so much attention on their work, which Kane reputedly felt made him and others look bad.
If you nitpickers want a source for that possibly apocryphal story, I refer you to 'A Look Back', the 70 Berni Wrightson career retrospective, which is the last place I read it. But I've read (variations of) that story elsewhere, probably/possibly in CBA.
  


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