One of the many reasons I call Arlen Schumer the Silver Age Sensei. From his book The Silver Age of Comic Book Art "Though their drawing styles are on opposite ends of the comic book spectrum, Adams’ impact on the medium can be considered as great as Jack Kirby’s. “You have to think of Kirby’s impact in a general sense,” Adams has said. “Kirby’s a phenomenon as well as an inspiration. But nobody says they want to draw as well as Kirby. His work is like this kind of wall, it will never get better, it will never get worse. It’s just there—it fulfllls itself. “My work is more like a promise. My work says, ‘Here’s this road. Here are someof the things you can see along the road. And there’s no end to it. “My impact, I think, is on a very personal, individual level. If you do good work and you succeed, the things people take away from it are as individual as they are. The depth of the work was sufficient to reach different sparks in each person. “In a sense, my work said you now have permission to do great art in comic books. That if you think you’re only worthy of producing fine art or becoming great in another field, I now present comic books as potential. The challenge is, this is what I’ve done; what can you do?”
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:10:34 +0000
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