"Definitive" Batman artist?

[Doctor Who]

Jim Lee

Bruce Timm

Brian Bolland

Neal Adams

David Mazzucchelli

Lee Bermejo

Tim Sale

 

[Spider-Kurt!]

Don Newton
Neal Adams
Brian Bolland
Dick Giordano
Marshall Rogers
Jim Lee

 

[Ponyboy]

Bob Kane of course!

But for me personally it's probably a tie between Norm Breyfogle and Bruce Timm. Brian Bolland gets honourable mention.

 

[SpideyInATree]

The definitive artist for Batman is, no doubt, Neal Adams. As a kid and even into adulthood I've seen the Neal Adams Batman used for a lot of images in advertising and on products for kids, etc.

MY definitive Batman artist is Norm Breyfogle. He was doing Detective when I started reading regularly and that's how I always envision it.

 

[ThDWgeek]

Jim Lee. I love the detail in his work, and my copy of Hush is pretty much my go to guide if I'm wondering how to draw something. Some of my favourite pieces of his are:

 

[antsman41]

Graham Nolan; he perfected Neal Adams. He's perfect...

 

[Mace Dolex]

Bob Kane of course!

Back in the 30's and 40's there probably wasn't that much demand for a comic book artist to draw for realism and dynamic but this piece by Bob Kane is pretty good and better than the stiff figures he would draw.

 

[DaveMoral]

I personally really like Matt Wagner's Batman.

 

[comicsuperhero]

In order for me:
1) Bob Kane
2) Neal Adams
3) Jim Lee (Hush was AMAZING! The coloring artist in that one was great too by Alex Sinclair).

 

[DaveMoral]

Graham Nolan

 

[SpideyInATree]

I personally really like Matt Wagner's Batman.

Yeah, I agree...Wagner's Batman was pretty sweet. Those miniseries he did were freakin' awesome...loved them.

 

[Young Superman]

Neal Adams

Adams, IMHO was one of the few artists who made the grey and blue version of the Batsuit look cool and realistic.

 

[CConn]

So you're saying Breyfogle, Aparo, and others didn't draw a cool looking batsuit?

 

[Young Superman]

So you're saying Breyfogle, Aparo, and others didn't draw a cool looking batsuit?

Nope, I'm just saying to me Adams did it the best.

 

[Young Superman]

This is AWESOME!

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Adams, IMHO was one of the few artists who made the grey and blue version of the Batsuit look cool and realistic.

And Aparo, Chan, Rogers, Grell, Giordano, Newton, Alcala (inks), Colan....

 

[CConn]

Nope, I'm just saying to me Adams did it the best.

Actually, that's not what you said.

But thanks for clarifying.

 

[Young Superman]

Actually, that's not what you said.

But thanks for clarifying.

That's what I meat too say, I just worded it wrong.

P.S Jim Aparo is also one of favorites. He, John Byrne, and Len Wein did The Untold Legend of the Batman miniseries from 1980. Which is one of my favorite Batman stories ever.

 

[Cain]

Jim Aparo was the best. Even well up into the 90's & beyond when he was growing older his work with this universe never seemed to lose it's step. I think they reprinted that LotDK Joker and Al Ghul's story by Chuck Dixon from the early 00's recently in a 100 page giant. Just look at that and marvel at Aparo's precision with his pencils. When Adams came back to the character recently for example I found his artwork off. Aparo never lost a step to me. Next to Breyfogle and Marshall Rogers nobody else's Batman work spoke as much to me.

 

[SmellTheWeird]

Mother of God ...