Superman The Best Artists Of The Modern Age Ranked
Superman: The Best Artists Of The Modern Age, Ranked
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The Modern Age saw Superman shed many of his more dated aspects, particularly in terms of his look.
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Superman has gone through a lot in the Modern Age of comics. The exact dates are up for debate, but most generally agree the era begins in the late-’80s or early-’90s, though to today. In that time, the DC Comics icon has died, returned, and been rebooted a few times. Some great artists have depicted his major evolutions in the last thirty years.
For a long time, Superman was considered a bit behind the times, but the Modern Age has shown that there are many different approaches to the classic character. Unique art styles show how simple— and complicated— the Man of Steel can be.
10 Doug Mahnke
Doug Mahnke is one of the more recent artists associated with Superman. His work on the version appearing in the current and crazy Dark Knights: Death Metal series is one of the most unique.
His Superman is something of a throwback to the grim and gritty era of the ’90s, with long hair, a sleeveless shirt, and a right arm that is actually the arm of Darkseid. It’s a darker, weirder take on the character, but like all of the other characters in this dark alternate universe, Superman is very cool.
9 Tom Grummett
Tim Grummett started working at DC by finishing layouts for George Perez on The New Teen Titans. He went on to become associated with one of the biggest events in comic book history: The Death of Superman.
As the artist on The Adventures of Superman, Grummett was instrumental in the huge crossover that pitted Superman against Doomsday. Though The Death of Superman has aged well in some ways and others not so much, Grummett’s art remains an appealing part of the giant event.
8 Carlos Pacheco
Carlos Pachecho is well known to comic book fans as one of the best X-Men artists of the ’90s. He’s had a long and fantastic career at DC Comics as well. In addition to drawing various issues of the main Superman title between 2006 and 2008, Pachecho also drew the Superman/Batman team-up series in 2005. This series continued the tradition of the World’s Finest series from the Silver Age, which paired up the two biggest titans of the DC universe.
7 Stuart Immonen
Stuart Immonen started at DC in 1993 and got right to work on the Legion of Super-Heroes. His work on Superman also started early in the ’90s, with his contributions to one of the most important weddings in comic book history, between Superman and Lois Lane.
Immonen grew very familiar with the character, contributing to issues of Superman, Action Comics, and The Adventures of Superman all during the ’90s. He also penciled the Superman Red/Superman Blue event series.
6 Frank Miller
Frank Miller produced one of the most iconic versions of Superman in his legendary The Dark Knight Returns, though some fans might argue it wasn’t very flattering.
Miller’s take on Superman being a government toady who an aged Batman eventually fights and defeats certainly had an influence on the character in both comics and other media after. Miller is certainly one of the greatest Batman artists of the Modern Age, and his Superman is just as influential.
5 John Romita, Jr.
John Romita Jr. is a comic book legend with a long history at Marvel and DC. He’s had massive runs on Spider-Man, as one of the best artists of the Modern Age, and also two long stints in the X-Men. He contributed to Superman in the early 2000s, creating a much blockier version of the character than fans had ever seen before.
His signature style has graced various comic book titles related to Superman, including the current ongoing and Superman: Year One.
4 Frank Quitely
Frank Quitely is the artist behind perhaps the most beloved modern Superman story, All-Star Superman. This iconic mini-series by writer Grant Morrison is a love letter to the Man of Steel and his long, strange but wonderful history. Quitely brings his unique style to a story that follows Superman from the streets of Metropolis to the stars and back.
Quitely is long associated with Morrison. The two also worked together on New X-Men, an early 2000s series that easily led Quitely to become one of the best X-Men artists of the 2000s.
3 Alex Ross
Alex Ross is one of the greatest comic book artists of all time, painting the gorgeous art in Kingdom Come and Marvels. He’s also rendered countless paintings of Superman, depicting perhaps the most classically stylized version of the Man of Steel to date.
His Superman takes a cue from George Reeves, though is a much more stout and muscular figure. In the minds of many modern comic book fans, his Superman is the Superman.
2 Jerry Ordway
Jerry Ordway is a longtime Superman artist who will be forever connected to the character thanks to his role in The Death of Superman. Ordway drew the fateful issue, Superman #75, in which Superman dies in his cataclysmic bid to stop Doomsday.
His run on the character began before that and he wrapped up over seven years of work on Superman across a number of titles in 1993. He didn’t stay away for long, returning for brief stints as a writer and artist in the late ’90s and drawing covers for DC in the last few years.
1 Jim Lee
Jim Lee is an icon in comic books thanks to his work on the X-Men in the ’90s, and being a founding member of Image Comics. He joined DC in the late ’90s and that gave him an opportunity to draw their biggest characters. His Superman is like many of his characters: Iconic.
He drew a classic and simple version of the character in his early work in 2004 and 2005 on the main Superman title and also the Hush storyline in Batman. He later redesigned the Superman costume for the New 52 reboot, losing the red trunks for the first time in history.
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