Best turtle artist

[SHREDDER-X]

Which of the following comic book artist 's rendition of the turtles is your favorite ?

- Kevin Eastman

-Peter Laird

- Eric Talbot

- Micheal Dooney

- A.C. Farley

- Dan Berger

- Jim Lawson

- Micheal Zulli

- Rick Veitch

- Ken Mitchroney

- Chris Allen

- Don Simpson

- Lesean Thomas

[VaughnMichael]

I think it's all a matter of one's own opinion but the ones I like most are:
- Kevin Eastman

-Peter Laird

- Eric Talbot

- Micheal Dooney

- A.C. Farley
And a few of the new guys from tales and of corse Chris Allen from Archie TMNT Adventures.

[SHREDDER-X]

I like Kevin and Pete. But Kevin's art was always a little better to me than Pete's. I loved Micheal Dooney's style, simple, but effective, and Micheal Zulli's was perhaps the most realistic depiction of what a Mutant Turtle would probably look like in real life. And Lesean Thomas' artwork for Dreamwave's TMNT was FLAWLESS !!! So beautiful and anime-like. Ken Mitroney's run on Archie's TMNT was my favorite because the turtles looked more like they did in the animated series at the time.

[Roseangelo]

I would say that Michael Dooney is the most all-around talented of all of the TMNT artists we've seen over time.

But I love each and every one of them for their own unique take on the characters.

[Buffy]

I have 2 favorites actually: Micheal Dooney and Chris Allen.

Like a lot of people here on the forumn, I grew up with the Archie TMNT comic. Ahhh, nostalgia! :)

[drasgow]

kevin and peter's for nostalgia, but i love the painted covers dooney and farley do. and all of the archie stuff looked a lot cooler to me when done by farley in the source books.

[cowabunga14]

Eastman's work would probably have to be my favorite, but I like Dooney's, Farley's, Zulli's, and Veitch's as well. They all seem to enjoy drawing the Turtles in my book.

[SHREDDER-X]

I HATE Jim Lawson's work though. His Drawings always seemed liked those wiggle vision cartoons like Dr. Katz and Home Movies.

[ToTheNines]

Can't go wrong with E&L's old stuff, but Dooney's my favorite.

Some one you didn't list who I like alot is Dario Brizuela.

And no matter how bad Lawson is these days, when he first got on board with the TMNT he was great.

[thebrownranger]

1. Eastman
2. Laird
3. Dooney

[Evilsherbear]

I HATE Jim Lawson's work though. His Drawings always seemed liked those wiggle vision cartoons like Dr. Katz and Home Movies.

That's the exact reason why I dislike his art too. Just too squiggly. LeSean Thomas has to be fav TMNT artist, because his style his almost the exact opposite of Lawson's. Nice and smoooooth :)

[odupianist]

My top 3 are Laird, Dooney and Farley, but I'm also a fan of Berger and Eastman. I like Chris Allan but I associate him with Archie, not the Mirage artists you have listed. I like some of the new Tales' artists too.

[PAAATE]

Peter Laird and Chris Allan

But I like 'em all :)

[Jester]

I love Dooney's work, as well as Chris Allen (like there was any doubt) and Eastman and Laird's stuff is great too. Berger has turned in some great stuff too.

[cowabunga14]

I HATE Jim Lawson's work though. His Drawings always seemed liked those wiggle vision cartoons like Dr. Katz and Home Movies.
His current stuff anyway.

[SHREDDER-X]

My top 3 are Laird, Dooney and Farley, but I'm also a fan of Berger and Eastman. I like Chris Allan but I associate him with Archie, not the Mirage artists you have listed. I like some of the new Tales' artists too.

Yeah, I listed artist other than Mirage;

Ken Mitroney, Chris Allan, and Don Simpson are from Archie. Lesean Thomas is from Dreamwave.

[poprob]

Well, then let me be the first...

1. LAWSON!

[notebook]

my favoite is lawson from the 80's.
his stuff back then was so cool in tmnta and tales vol.1.
he's def my favorite of the tmnta artists.
i love chris allan's work but i hated that he drew splinter with round mouse ears. it just looked so wrong.

early e&l obviously...those early years are great.

i love the OT style that was used on all the old merchandise..

[SHREDDER-X]

I would love to see an animated Turtle series designed by Thomas.

[sai of relief]

eastman and laird. hands down.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I HATE Jim Lawson's work though. His Drawings always seemed liked those wiggle vision cartoons like Dr. Katz and Home Movies.

Jim Lawson is this? http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/archie/11/11.htm. I have always hated these drawings but I like the other in the Archie comics.

[Samhain]

gotta be Andres Ponce. his tmnt are badazz!!!

[Cipher]

I really can't choose. Chris Allan presents the most "definitive" version of the Turtles for me, but I have major respect for most artists to have worked on the series. I used to dislike Jim Lawson's work (both old and new), but recently I've come to really enjoy it, for example.

One thing: I've never been huge on Dooney's issues. He's techically a skilled artist, but his style is just...kind of generic.

[shuriken]

Kevin Eastman and A.C. Farley are my two faves. Followed by Lawson's Early stuff. Dooney and Allen are cool as well. Laird also is up there but I never liked his art as much as the above.

[darthsmozers]

Chris Allan for sure! I am not super-familiar with the Mirage-verse, but I'm such a sucker for his art that I picked up all (4?) of his Tales books just to see new Chris Allan TMNT art. Sold!

[TristanHuwJones]

gotta be Andres Ponce. his tmnt are badazz!!!

You will love August then... ;)

[CyberCubed]

I know someone is going to call me out, but I like all of Lawson's "non-human" characters in terms of art.

Granted I like his Foot and Casey Jones as well, but otherwise its just the Turtles and whatever monsters/aliens they face that he does well.

[Aztec General]

You have to love the original Eastman and Laird stuff.

But how about Paul Harmon? His stuff is beautiful! I hope they do a collected of his and TJ's stuff.

[Samhain]

o yes, i cant wait!!! 61 !!!

[Demon-Alukard]

My favorite artist of TMNT is Jim Lawson! His art is great and improbably stylish. Such exact proportionality does his drawing ideal. But what I like the most, is how the people, the Turtles and all the environment are harmoniously combined. And all that belongs to one world, the world of Jim Lawson.

Also, I very like Paul Harmon as an artist. His art remind me Volume 1.

[BoggleKng]

Hard to pick a favorite.. I have some stuff by most of the Mirage artists so I call it even..
Speaking of artists, does any one know who drew the art for this silhouette background?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=ninja+turtles+in+shadows&btnG=Search+Images

[Lord Nightwalker]

I can not pick an absolute favorite, But Andres Ponce needs to be added to that list.
He is realy coming into his own with the TMNT, and I believe he's only going to keep getting better.
I've always liked how cool all the art was, and how diverse at times.
Michael Zulli, Lawson, Talbot, Dooney,Berger,Farley, and Eastman&Laird are the staples of the TMNT. You can't forget guy like Corbin, Lavinge, Brown, Bissette, Bode,Veitch, Martin,McCollum and Anderson,TMNTA'S Allen, Rick Arthur...They all had kick ass renditions of the TMNT.

And the newer guys, man...They are kicking some butt.
Ponce,Brizuela,Remender,Rice, Pinto,Cohn,Jourdan,Hawthorne,Harmon and White....We've gotten some realy good contributors over the years.
I am happy to say that I have enjoyed them all.