At some point or another, we've all fantasized about being a professional comic artist and being a "fan-fave" that can write our own ticket.

So, purely as an artist, what would your dream project (or projects) be? You're not writing them but you are drawing them.. select the writer and project of your dreams!

For me, I'd love a time machine to go back and be the artist on Supreme. I think it's be so fun to go back and reimagine the Superman mythology along with Alan.

Barring time travel, if I had to work on something all-new...

Well, I'd love to do anything with Alan Moore, but I think it'd be a lot of fun to work with Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, or Erik Larsen on any superhero project.

If I had to pick from established characters (I think it'd be more fun make up all new stuff, but for the sake of this exercise...) I'd work with Grant on either All Star Superman or Captain Marvel (Fawcett), Warren on The Authority or JLA, and Larsen on the Hulk or Captain Marvel (Fawcett). With Alan, I'd just finish off the Supreme run so the series has a proper ending.

You?

Even in my fantasies, I'm not as good a the guys who did the series I'd like to draw - Conan and Dracula.

Honestly though, my attention span is too short to do one thing for long. My artistic fantasyland would be to work for Charlton circa 1974, churning eight-pagers in multiple genres with a good, hands-off editorial team in charge. If I did an ongoing series, I would rather it be a regular lead in an anthology than a full-sized monthly that wouldn't give me time to draw anything else.

Geez, I don't know. Getting paid to draw comics would be nice. I always thought about drawing a monthly comic. Making drawing pages my job. Writer? It's hard to say the few writers I've worked were fun but I always complained about something.

Drawing 8 pagers is fun!

Regaining the desire to draw again.

I wish I could wave a magic wand and give that back to you. You are awesome, and your style is criminally underrepresented in comics.

(Plus it would've saved Eric San Juan's story from my sad attempts at drawing in Pitched 2.)

What's his style look like again?

I agree. Writing them is fun, too!

Dear god.

I don't have any links to Twitchy's art handy and he has a style of his own, but I'd put him in the Phil Foglio school. http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/

Foglio was definitely an influence. though when I showed him my stuff, he said while he saw the influence he felt it wasn't derivative. So I've got that going for me. Which is nice.

What was the name of John's fantasy comic again?

Fuck if I can remember, Ari.

I can't recall ever fantasizing about working with any writers or on established characters. For me it was working on my own projects, at one point when I was a teenager I had about 16 different comics I was "working" on. I also used to fantasize about adapting my favorite novels or short stories. Phillip Jose Farmer's The World of Tiers series was one, Stephen King's short The Monkey was another. That one even went as far as me doing layouts for the entire thing in a sketchbook.

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Sorry -- thought you were being "cute".

Sir Chuck.

My dream is not so much to draw but ink over the masters of pencil.
Just to be able to hold original pencils by Kirby, Adams, Wrightson, Golden, etc.
and be entrusted with the job of inking such masterpieces is a dream.

Also thanks to Hanzo for posting this and the other book thread.
Get some activitiy going here.

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Fantastic Four would be the book I would like to work on the most. Just when I thought an FF lineup with H.E.R.B.I.E couldn't get any worse Marvel gives us the crapfest known as Future Foundation.

I've never understood why writers don't understand the FF are first and foremost a family. When you remove one of the family members the book isn't the same. The only time it ever worked was when She-Hulk replaced the Thing and even those stories were not as good as the stories that preceded them.

I'd be a poor poor successor, but probably Nexus.

Well, team books thrive on dynamics and just about all the dynamics between the original four have been played out at a certain point. Without the audience turnover of old, you've got to keep the old school fans interested to keep sales up and the best way to do that, so far, is to shake things up.

I don't even see why people get mad -- you know shit's going to go back to the way it was in a year or two, so why sweat it? It's like when Cap died -- you knew he was coming back, so enjoy the ride... variety's the spice of life and all.

My dream job is to ink and possibly color the pencils of Uncle Twitchy, especially on a Sir Chuck series.