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JIM LEE
Artist: Batman: Hush, Superman: For Tomorrow, All-Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder
First Comic: Tarzan
The first comic I remember seeing was a Tarzan comic at the local barbershop. This was back in the day when comics could be found nearly everywhere: grocery stores, newsstands...and barbershops. It was Tarzan leaping and wrestling with a leopard or jaguar or some other yellow/orange hirsute creature. Now, what I have just described could be a hundred gazillion different Tarzan comics and honestly I couldn't tell you a crap about the story or the issue number. But what I do remember — to this day, in fact — is the sheer power and intensity and, most of all, the fluidity of the figurework. Of course, the cover was illustrated by none other than living-legend artist extraordinaire Joe ''Maestro'' Kubert. And, yeah, that's why I'm an artist. These are the things that get lodged and stuck in my head. To this day, 35-plus years later, I'm still trying to draw a cover that moves like that and makes all the young kids snarl and roar like I did that day getting my hair cut.
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