Personal History
Controversy[]
Brian Cronin of Comic Book Resources remarked that Land's art in Uncanny X-Men #510 is "possibly has the most harmful art to a story that I’ve seen in a comic," saying that the Land's limited supply of poses and use of the same models for multiple characters "results in terrible art and particularly terrible storytelling."[1]
Although the use of photographs as models is long established in comic book art, Land has been accused of going beyond the accepted bounds of photo use.[2] Land’s layouts and poses were so distinctive, detailed and repetitive that critics suspected that Land was lifting photos into his pages outright and using minimal Photoshopping to alter the picture and make the work appear an original drawing.[2] Land says that he does Google searches for references, but denies accusations that he does digital manipulations[3] which has since been proven untrue by various factors on the Internet, who have taken his pictures and post them over posters, movie stills, porno images, his own work and other comic book art to showcase that he has traced them indefinitely.
There are currently a number of people who have petitions and groups dedicated to have him fired by Marvel, though Joe Quesada had stated that he wouldn't fire him because it would be unfair to Land.Professional History
Bibliography[]
- Ultimate Fantastic Four #21-32
- Ultimate Power #1-9
- X-Men Phoenix Endsong (March 2005 - June 2005)
- X-Men: The End (covers only)
- LEGION OF MONSTERS: MAN-THING #1
- LEGION OF MONSTERS: WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #1
- MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX: LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER #5
- WOLVERINE: ENEMY OF THE STATE VOL. 2
- SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN VOL. 5: SINS REMEMBERED
- BLACK WIDOW: HOMECOMING
- OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE: THE WOMEN OF MARVEL (Cover only)
- Black Widow (2004)
- POWERLESS (2004)
- UNCANNY X-MEN #449
Work History
Images
See Also
Links and References
- Greg Land Covers at marvel.com
- Greg Land Pencils at marvel.com
- Comic Art Community GALLERY OF COMIC ART LGreg Land
References
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Reinventing the pencil: 21 artists who changed mainstream comics (for better or worse) Onion AV Club. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.
- ↑ CN Expo Tie-In: The Mechanics of Greg Land: An Introduction Silver Bullet Comics. Retrieved on 2006-11-04.