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Shanna the She-Devil as depicted by Frank Cho is also quite beautiful.  You can find the covers he did for her recent series on  this page. 

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Frank Cho amazes me.
Hes a fantastic artist, to be sure, best known as the creator of the Liberty Meadows newspaper comic strip.
I think His specialty is drawing ladies that are pleasing to the eye.

Frank says he have previously attended a nursing school.
As an artist he is self-taught. Do you believe it?

[The_Pimp_NeonBlack]

I's utterly adore and worship Frank Cho as an artist but I's found his Shanna the She-Devil comic most disappointing.

The art is superb and his rendering of his characters and enviroment are almost without equal but the story lacked his trade mark style and the wit and sparkle of his dialogue was very much nonexistant compared with all his other works -mainly Liberty Meadows and Zombie King (one issue of this comic ever printed sadly).

IF you are a fan of his works and art as well as the character of Shanna, than I's recommend buying the graphic novel collected edition.

Peace
The Pimp NeonBlack

[Fett]

Frank says he have previously attended a nursing school.
As an artist he is self-taught. Do you believe it?

Brian Stelfreeze, Cully Hamner, Adam Hughes… virtually ever single one of the best comics professionals seems to be self-taught.

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Brian Stelfreeze, Cully Hamner, Adam Hughes… virtually ever single one of the best comics professionals seems to be self-taught.

Not really. If you put aside your personal preferences, you'd realize that the majority of artists who break the mold (Im specifically speaking about comicbook industry) attended any kind of art school, like Neal Adams, Jean Giraud, Barry Windsor-Smith, Phillipe Drullliet and many more.

But this is not my point.

My point is: The dynamic, style and construction of Cho's drawing are so sleek and realistic that is hard to believe hes never stepped in a art school.

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Fair point – save that those people who 'broke' the mold are accredited such distinction after decades of work in the medium, those I mentioned are still a good twenty years from being recognised as having 'broken the mold'.

But, as I say, the artists who make up Gaijin Studios, a studio renown for having an extremely talented pool of artists, did not attend art education and are self-taught.

My point is: Frank Cho being self-taught isn't surprising for current comic artists of his caliber. It seems virtually every comic artist who is not a 'veteran' has had no real formal training.

As someone who attended art school – the fact that good artists didn't go to art school isn't surprising. There were no good artists at the art school, so they had to be somewhere! ^_^

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The way you're putting it is making it sounds like learn art by self-taughting is a easy, common way to become a good artist. Sure practicing and dedication are the key to success but you shouldnt generalize things.

I think art school is worth it if you want to broaden your skills and (perhaps the most important) your horizons. After all, most art movements that influenced entire world came from art schools (academias). Its not fair 'saying' theres no good artists in art schools. And if are there fellow members of this forum who are art school students?

I dont know if the current comic artists dont go to art schools anymore. In fact, this is not relevant. Im just surprised the way Cho developed a comic style that emphasis classical escholastic notions such realism, lacked of cliches or exaggerations, without any academic influence.

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I dont know if the current comic artists dont go to art schools anymore. In fact, this is not relevant. Im just surprised the way Cho developed a comic style that emphasis realism, lacked of cliches or exaggerations, without any academic influence.

And what I'm saying is that, I don't think it's surprising at all.

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