from Djinn PAWN #27
"Yes. Much better to have him paint a Madonna with Child, or a self portrait. THOSE ideas are really original and will get you into the louvre…"

i guess what i should have said is that he didnt so much "create" something iconic, he just repeated it/interpreted it [and i have no problem with that, and im not ranking that on any hierarchy, that method can lead to amazing things, i just dont think this is one of them]. whereas i would definitely say crumb created many iconic things which had not been there before in such clear form.

and #19/Jed Alexander
yes your right, i dont think i said that quite right. i think what i meant was more that his style/technique is a very basic comics art technique [makes me think of john buscema], and i dont think his subject matter is really much to write home about. and your probably right on the math of bad/unimaginative comic artists out there.
"but denigrating someone's work in a sentence or two isn't much in the way of criticism. It's just your opinion. For what it's worth. And its usually worth more to people who agree with you than it's likely to convince those who don't. It's sort of like shouting out the name of your favorite football team."
yes, a couple sentences isnt much of a critique, or lets say not much of a full-meal critique, more of a quick snack, but im not going to write a thesis on my perception of coops boring-ness in order to convince people to join my anti-coop army.

to create an iconic image using a very famous icon of our culture/mythology [devil] who is famous for pleasure/evil/badboy/etc... doing something like smiling/smoking, or even having a martini or something, is hardly original. and im not going to launch into some art v. illustration bit, cause its lame/boring. but i would say the other name mentioned, crumb, he did create something iconic and odd, the keep on truckin' character was not an already famous mythical/cultural character of any sort as far as i know, and it was really quite odd that it became so iconic/catchy. just my opinion, coop has the skills of any good comic book artist, but i think he is less original than just about any comic artist and he simply illustrates stale rock n roll motifs and somehow blows some hype for them.

i really thought the structure of the nose on the statue and the young man looked significantly different, the statue seemed to have a thinner slighter nose than that in any of the drawings/paintings. really, i can see a lot of similarity in the paintings/drawings but i dont think they look much like the sculpture, mainly the nose seems way different to me.

i can't say i have ever in my life seen a photo of a person that screamed "sex offender" more so then this photo. the gross grin, that piece of hair swinging over and to top it off, such greasy looking skin, slap a priest outfit on him and you would have a new horror film villain.