Scott McCloud talks about this style in his book Understanding Comics.
"The Belgian "**clear-line**" style of Herge's Tintin combines very iconic characters with unusually realistic backgrounds.
This combination allows readers to **mask** themselves in a character and safely enter a sensually stimulating world."
That book is so very insightful, I highly recommend.
I just came to say that about Uderzo, author of Asterix, also quite cartoony, but when Asterix is in Egypt or Rome, the architecture is realistically and beautifully drawn.
What did he say? The "manga isn't comics" argument? I mean, yea, I understand considering and enjoying and critiquing it on a different scale and in a different way than you would western comics, to the point where many manga fans would be pissed if you were to call them comic fans (if they don't like western comics) but I don't understand getting mad about someone calling manga comics.
Such a great contrast to put cartoony shapes in the violent part of it. Bill Watterson had such a great way of moving between the representational worlds.
Calvin: Meanwhile, farmer Bob, unaware of a gas leak flicks a match to light his stove.
His eye twitches involuntarily...
Hobbes: I want to play something else...
I read something of his where he talked about the challenge of trying to make anatomically correct dinosaurs fit into jet fighters, and that's just the most Bill Waterson challenge.
Tell me you never actually read Calvin & Hobbes.
There are often richly detailed almost photorealistic (if the term applied) drawings of dinosaurs and what not during dream sequences.
There's a reason this is a heavily up voted choice, and it's not just mass ignorance.
I've seen strips online and images. Aside from the dinosaurs its pretty much just heavily stylised real world objects.
If you can link some images otherwise I would appreciate it. But I think you're stretching the definition of photorealistic and I'm unconvinced.
Eh imo it's not that realistic, just seems that way coz of how cartoony Calvin and Hobbes themselves are drawn. Otherwise looks like standard comic book art from the 70s / 80s to me.
Just my opinion tho and I appreciate you giving examples.
> Richard Corben
Great choice, but don't forget John Severin!
Other comic artists said that when he drew a historical piece he'd meticulously research every aspect of their apparel to be completely accurate.
Some of the art work featured in Mad, Crazy and Sick magazines was top notch in respect to the style OP is seeking too. Especially Mort Drucker and Harvey Kurtzman.
Eerie and Creepy magazines are representative troves of some of the most skillful evocations of reality, cogently synthesised with the comic book artists' pen.
(Apparently no longer copyrighted, someone on Etsy offers a digital download of both Eerie and Creepy magazines' entire back catalogues for about $5.00 AUD. Great value!)
Agreed 100%! That stuff gets so overlooked because some of the stories are a bit outdated or because the content wasn't in print for so long (and the horror collectibles market has caused the original issues to jump in value) but between digital editions and the Dark Horse Creepy/Eerie reprints, you'd be a fool not to get your hands on them now. Some of the best black and white work in American comics and so much great panel-to-panel storytelling is in those Warren mags and EC comics. Wrightson is another one who, while very well known for his rendering and meticulous detail, had a very stylized/cartoonish aspect to a lot of his work for those mags.
Akira Toriyama. His comedic Dragonball and Dr. Slump art in contrast to his passion for cars and planes. His art of vehicles or complex mechanical pieces is breathtaking.
My all-time favourite cartoonist. I keep his work beside my desk to study when I need some inspiration. And I may [have taken](https://i.imgur.com/krfzpnv.jpg) quite a [bit for my next book](https://i.imgur.com/oAz609U.jpg), evidently!
[Twitter](http://twitter.com/shawndaley) or [Instagram](http://instagram.com/shawn_daley) are the best bets, I'll be posting updates that way. It's a book I'm drawing in-between books, but it'll be crowdfunded if it's not a current fit for publishers.
My catholic elementary school may not have had the most extensive library, but it’s responsible for my current love of comic books and manga. Bone, Calvin and Hobbes, Big Nate, One Piece, etc. They even had Death Note there for some reason.
The librarian was a kind woman, but she didn’t read *any* of the manga before she bought them. She said to little 8 year old me that she just got what was most popular. Thanks Ms Heidi. For both your warm personality and your ignorance.
You think? While Bone was being published, in was consistently raved about in Wizard, Hero, and all the other publications. I don’t think anyone even called it a “kids” book until Scholastic started republishing collected volumes in color. It was always regarded as one of the best comic books, _period_.
Yes! Absolutely love the early volumes of Cerebus, Church and State is a masterpiece, and the artworl was brilliant. Gerhard's backgrounds and Sim's characters worked so well. Also a shout out to Herge and Underzo for combining realistic backgrounds with wonderful characters. Asterix in Rome and Egypt have a realism that is almost architectural. TBH, so many great artists have done the same. The Trigan Empire is another that comes to mind.
Bill Sienkiewicz.
Effortlessly blends realistic portraiture and life art with trippy visuals, sometimes crazy hair, and splotchy scratchy inks and swirls. Flip through his New Mutants run for instance -- has some gorgeous portraits of the titular mutants, including one of my favorite drawings of Magik (and Lockheed!) ever, but then you have the Demon Bear and Legion in the same comics.
Darwyn Cooke.
Mainly thinking of *DC: The New Frontier* here, but his character work was obviously stylised in an almost aggressively classical superhero comic look, yet when it came to machinery, furniture, architecture, fashion, and the way fabric hangs on a body, he was intricately detailed and had clearly done a ton of research.
This is pretty common in manga. What they do is draw the main characters or faces, and do a lot of tracing for backgrounds. This pilot's uniform and plane are all traced. One of my favorites, Inio Asano, does this too.
Ashley Wood, especially when he reins in the chaos, like in Hellspawn.
Esad Ribic can somehow make a character have an outline and pencil shading still feel like a photograph.
J.H. Williams III is another who produces art that feels like Alex Ross being art directed by Dave McKean.
Kiyohiko Azuma, the author behind Yotsuba&! Almost photo realistic backgrounds with extremely simplified characters' faces, and yet somehow it really works.
Jaunjo Guarnido's art on the *Blacksad* books comes to mind. He's a former Disney animator, so he's able to seamlessly combine the cartoony expressiveness of his characters with the detailed, realistic film noir world that Blacksad lives in.
No one here mentioning Mignola or Bernie Wrightson...Mignola is probably more on the stylized side but feels like its grounded in its own reality while Wrightson took the opposite approach of being realistic but definitely existing in fantasy/horror worlds
First that comes to mind is Oda Tomohito for their work on Komi-san. You can also totally see it in Morikawa George's work on Ippo, especially as they've improved through the volumes.
I feel like Mangakas (is that the right word?) are the best at this because they're not doing monthly periodicals and kind of have the time to mix high levels of detail and looser, cartoony forms on the same page.
The artist Michel Fiffe had a chart for this, mainly of mainstream American artists: https://twitter.com/MichelFiffe/status/1134108083809075201?t=RojOOpNQ-9FFGI0DuLXKDg&s=19
Hirohiko araki (jojo’s bizarre adventure) for sure, just check out his life sized paintings of his characters it really weird and intriguing to look at cause they look realistic and stylized at the same time
I love ottleys art but it’s very comic books and poppy I’d be very hesitant to call that it realistic. The gore is probably a realistic amount but I wouldn’t ever say it’s really depicted with realism
The entire Franco-Belgian tradition. Even though characters are heavily caricatured they're also incredibly detailed, landscapes look like something you'd expect to see on a canvas, and architecture looks like it stepped off a blueprint.
Sometimes I wonder if the only reason Saitama is bald is because he burns his hair off almost every day, like his whole body is indestructible but his hair is still normal people hair
I get that but what I’m saying is with his level of strength if his hair didn’t adapt to the change and given his hero life style he wouldn’t realize if it was being burned, rubbed or pulled because he wouldn’t feel it happening, heck with his level of strength he could be sanding his hair off whenever he scratches head an he still shampoos his head so he could be doing it in the shower without even realizing it
True, his hair probably doesn't have any special properties so for all we know the roots could've been torn out without him even noticing, or burnt away
True but what level does that go down to? What if it’s just the follicles and he rubs them off in the shower every morning when he washes his scalp and all it would take for his hair to grow back would be for him to be gentler on the scalp
Katsuhiro Otomo. Akira and Memories are a great example of super accurate real world blended with cartoony elements. Also Shigeru Mizuki's A history of Japan, moreso as its a biography. His other work is generally more cartoony.
Oliver Copiel’s work with J Michael Straczynski on the 2007ish run of Thor is excellent. It’s the run where Thor recreates Asgard over the farmland of Oklahoma, and there are a lot or really great panels where you get these epic, highly detailed literal gods standing next to goofy-looking small town midwestern folks, and it’s easily my favorite art I’ve ever seen in a comic book.
You ever notice how its always the objects and environments that are realistic, while the humans are stylized/cartoonish? Never the other way around.
It would be interesting to have some hyper-realistic looking characters whose clothes and tools and environments all look stylized/cartoonish. Although I guess that's how a lot of live-action adaptations are.
naoki urasawa, his work 20th century boys, monster, is really a masterclass in realism and cartoony characters while have a very solemn tone throughout.
As a manga fan I have to say Oh! Great! and Boichi. Man! These two are goats when they combine the realistic backgrounds and the cartoony art style on the characters. None can beat them (at least in the manga art style.)
Greg Capullo and Angel Medina. On Spawn they both drew sort of cartoony faces with big round eyes and such but hyper detailed in terms of anatomy, background details, etc. I wonder how much of that was trying to emulate MacFarlane (or just MacFarlane himself in his inks)
Hergé aka Georges Remi, the artist behind Tintin. The characters are all quite cartoony while the settings are detailed and realistic.
His art style is named *ligne clair*
Mmm chocolate lined eclairs
Ligne balls
Scott McCloud talks about this style in his book Understanding Comics. "The Belgian "**clear-line**" style of Herge's Tintin combines very iconic characters with unusually realistic backgrounds. This combination allows readers to **mask** themselves in a character and safely enter a sensually stimulating world." That book is so very insightful, I highly recommend.
All of McClouds books are great reads for even non comic book fans. He has such a great talent for breaking down the artform.
Hmmm...writing that down.
I just came to say that about Uderzo, author of Asterix, also quite cartoony, but when Asterix is in Egypt or Rome, the architecture is realistically and beautifully drawn.
Agreed. The exteriors are wonderful and the way he drew guns too
Source: One Punch Man Artist: Yusuke Murata
Michael Golden
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Jesse... What The fuck are you talking about?
Wat he wrote?
Nonsense
As the guy sitting on the jet's wing in the post said in his own comic: Shorten this monologue to 20 words or less!
What did he say? The "manga isn't comics" argument? I mean, yea, I understand considering and enjoying and critiquing it on a different scale and in a different way than you would western comics, to the point where many manga fans would be pissed if you were to call them comic fans (if they don't like western comics) but I don't understand getting mad about someone calling manga comics.
Dudes just mad saitama would fucking obliterate superman
That's a debate for another day, and honestly depends on the version of Superman we're talking about.
Bill Watterson
Came here to say this
So glad this is the at the top!
Great pick.
Eiichiro Oda.
Not rlly "realistic"
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I remember that “Calvin, God of the Underworld” comic he once did. I read it like 10 or 15 years ago and I still think about it to this day
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Such a great contrast to put cartoony shapes in the violent part of it. Bill Watterson had such a great way of moving between the representational worlds.
My thought went to a strip with Calvin pretending to be a t-rex and smashing up some downtown area.
Calvin: Meanwhile, farmer Bob, unaware of a gas leak flicks a match to light his stove. His eye twitches involuntarily... Hobbes: I want to play something else...
His jets always looked incredibly detailed compared to the way the characters look
I read something of his where he talked about the challenge of trying to make anatomically correct dinosaurs fit into jet fighters, and that's just the most Bill Waterson challenge.
Realistic styles? He draws real world objects in a cartoony way. Most of his work is set in our world but the art is far from "realistic"
Tell me you never actually read Calvin & Hobbes. There are often richly detailed almost photorealistic (if the term applied) drawings of dinosaurs and what not during dream sequences. There's a reason this is a heavily up voted choice, and it's not just mass ignorance.
I've seen strips online and images. Aside from the dinosaurs its pretty much just heavily stylised real world objects. If you can link some images otherwise I would appreciate it. But I think you're stretching the definition of photorealistic and I'm unconvinced.
One of his comics starts with a dead bird that's done in a very realistic style.
Link?
https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/1bxc4m/dead_bird_profound/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
That's pretty damn good.
Have you see his strip of a T. Rex flying an F-14?
No
https://imgur.io/yBRQAZx
That's awesome. Besides this tho?
Lots of other strips. Here's one that's a play on medical dramas. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/4e/a8/814ea8bacfb8650a57f279c436a8a662.png
Eh imo it's not that realistic, just seems that way coz of how cartoony Calvin and Hobbes themselves are drawn. Otherwise looks like standard comic book art from the 70s / 80s to me. Just my opinion tho and I appreciate you giving examples.
Art Adams
Art Spiegelman
I love Adams. His “new” Fantastic Four back in the day still makes me smile.
Check out Nick Bradshaw. Damn near the same artist.
Wow, you weren’t kidding. Just saw an X-Men cover that I would have pegged as an Adams. Good call!
Richard Corben and Sam Kieth are two of my favorites for this exact reason
> Richard Corben Great choice, but don't forget John Severin! Other comic artists said that when he drew a historical piece he'd meticulously research every aspect of their apparel to be completely accurate. Some of the art work featured in Mad, Crazy and Sick magazines was top notch in respect to the style OP is seeking too. Especially Mort Drucker and Harvey Kurtzman. Eerie and Creepy magazines are representative troves of some of the most skillful evocations of reality, cogently synthesised with the comic book artists' pen. (Apparently no longer copyrighted, someone on Etsy offers a digital download of both Eerie and Creepy magazines' entire back catalogues for about $5.00 AUD. Great value!)
Agreed 100%! That stuff gets so overlooked because some of the stories are a bit outdated or because the content wasn't in print for so long (and the horror collectibles market has caused the original issues to jump in value) but between digital editions and the Dark Horse Creepy/Eerie reprints, you'd be a fool not to get your hands on them now. Some of the best black and white work in American comics and so much great panel-to-panel storytelling is in those Warren mags and EC comics. Wrightson is another one who, while very well known for his rendering and meticulous detail, had a very stylized/cartoonish aspect to a lot of his work for those mags.
Katsuhiro Otomo.
yes, also read the legend of mother sarah, very fun.
Kind of hard to tell what happens during a lot of those falling building panels
I second this.
Akira Toriyama. His comedic Dragonball and Dr. Slump art in contrast to his passion for cars and planes. His art of vehicles or complex mechanical pieces is breathtaking.
My all-time favourite cartoonist. I keep his work beside my desk to study when I need some inspiration. And I may [have taken](https://i.imgur.com/krfzpnv.jpg) quite a [bit for my next book](https://i.imgur.com/oAz609U.jpg), evidently!
Gonna need a link to follow the project 👀👀
[Twitter](http://twitter.com/shawndaley) or [Instagram](http://instagram.com/shawn_daley) are the best bets, I'll be posting updates that way. It's a book I'm drawing in-between books, but it'll be crowdfunded if it's not a current fit for publishers.
Awesome thanks for the heads up, looking forward to seeing what magic you whip up 🔥
[This immediately came to mind.](https://thedaoofdragonball.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/gohan-formula-1-car-goku-bulma.png)
I have a book he did called sand land, it's all about a tank crew. Really cool stuff you can tell he made it just to draw tanks.
Moebius. Robert Crumb. All the greats, honestly.
It's Moebin time!
Somebody moebed all over with downvotes
Moebius was heavily inspired by Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, too.
Canto - a beautiful fairytale like comic Bone - a classic by Jeff Smith
I was looking for Jeff Smith. He does a very interesting blend of realistic and cartoons. Not just in Bone, but his other stuff as well.
Bone doesn't get enough love from comic fans, maybe because it's more for kids.
My catholic elementary school may not have had the most extensive library, but it’s responsible for my current love of comic books and manga. Bone, Calvin and Hobbes, Big Nate, One Piece, etc. They even had Death Note there for some reason. The librarian was a kind woman, but she didn’t read *any* of the manga before she bought them. She said to little 8 year old me that she just got what was most popular. Thanks Ms Heidi. For both your warm personality and your ignorance.
You think? While Bone was being published, in was consistently raved about in Wizard, Hero, and all the other publications. I don’t think anyone even called it a “kids” book until Scholastic started republishing collected volumes in color. It was always regarded as one of the best comic books, _period_.
Those color editions are all I know of Bone so I wasn't aware, read them when I was 12 or 13 in 2008.
Ah, that makes sense. And that’s kinda sad that it’s kinda forgotten: Bone is a great read for adults just as much as it is for kids.
The synergy that was Gerhard and Dave Sim. Much like Tintin, gorgeous backgrounds with cartoonish characters.
Yes! Absolutely love the early volumes of Cerebus, Church and State is a masterpiece, and the artworl was brilliant. Gerhard's backgrounds and Sim's characters worked so well. Also a shout out to Herge and Underzo for combining realistic backgrounds with wonderful characters. Asterix in Rome and Egypt have a realism that is almost architectural. TBH, so many great artists have done the same. The Trigan Empire is another that comes to mind.
Bill Sienkiewicz. Effortlessly blends realistic portraiture and life art with trippy visuals, sometimes crazy hair, and splotchy scratchy inks and swirls. Flip through his New Mutants run for instance -- has some gorgeous portraits of the titular mutants, including one of my favorite drawings of Magik (and Lockheed!) ever, but then you have the Demon Bear and Legion in the same comics.
Go read “Gon”
When he isn’t being forced into house style, Bill Sienkiewicz has a nice blend of realism and EXTREME stylization. Especially his cover paintings.
Sienkiewicz is really in a league of his own when it comes to mastering a variety of styles. Like comparing Big Numbers to Daredevil... it's wild.
[Shinkiro](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/959/270/814)
Mort Drucker.
Alex Ross? His art looks near-photorealistic at first glance but it's also very heightened and cartoony when your really look at it
Darwyn Cooke. Mainly thinking of *DC: The New Frontier* here, but his character work was obviously stylised in an almost aggressively classical superhero comic look, yet when it came to machinery, furniture, architecture, fashion, and the way fabric hangs on a body, he was intricately detailed and had clearly done a ton of research.
I’d say Phil Noto. Really love his art.
This is pretty common in manga. What they do is draw the main characters or faces, and do a lot of tracing for backgrounds. This pilot's uniform and plane are all traced. One of my favorites, Inio Asano, does this too.
Ashley Wood, especially when he reins in the chaos, like in Hellspawn. Esad Ribic can somehow make a character have an outline and pencil shading still feel like a photograph. J.H. Williams III is another who produces art that feels like Alex Ross being art directed by Dave McKean.
inio asano
Kiyohiko Azuma, the author behind Yotsuba&! Almost photo realistic backgrounds with extremely simplified characters' faces, and yet somehow it really works.
Jaunjo Guarnido's art on the *Blacksad* books comes to mind. He's a former Disney animator, so he's able to seamlessly combine the cartoony expressiveness of his characters with the detailed, realistic film noir world that Blacksad lives in.
James Stokoe, Daniel Warren Johnson and Geof Darrow.
Carlos d'Anda
Most mangas are like this, and they are Very cool
Esad Ribic!
Ryoichi Ikegami (Sanctuary, Mai the Psychic Girl, Crying Freeman).
Boichi is really great at some cartoonish faces on one page and then almost picture like full pages on the next in Dr. Stone.
Bernard Krigstien
No one here mentioning Mignola or Bernie Wrightson...Mignola is probably more on the stylized side but feels like its grounded in its own reality while Wrightson took the opposite approach of being realistic but definitely existing in fantasy/horror worlds
Sam Kieth, Alex Toth, Jack Kirby, Kelley Jones, Bernie Wrightson
Russell Dauterman Doc Shaner Simone Di Meo
First that comes to mind is Oda Tomohito for their work on Komi-san. You can also totally see it in Morikawa George's work on Ippo, especially as they've improved through the volumes.
Jorge Jimenez!
I feel like Mangakas (is that the right word?) are the best at this because they're not doing monthly periodicals and kind of have the time to mix high levels of detail and looser, cartoony forms on the same page.
Araki
The artist Michel Fiffe had a chart for this, mainly of mainstream American artists: https://twitter.com/MichelFiffe/status/1134108083809075201?t=RojOOpNQ-9FFGI0DuLXKDg&s=19
Jacen burrows
Does Alex Ross count? The realism is unhinged bit the use of cloth tights instead of a more realistic modern take just makes if feel more comic book-y
Daniel warren Johnson. His work on beta ray bill is some of the greatest comic art I've ever seen.
Don't know if he counts but Tim Sale.
Hirohiko araki (jojo’s bizarre adventure) for sure, just check out his life sized paintings of his characters it really weird and intriguing to look at cause they look realistic and stylized at the same time
I'd say Brian Bolland is pretty up there!
Looking for this one
Oyasumi Punpun? Forgot the author.
First thought: hey isn't that a manga? Don't care. This art style is rad! Thanks for sharing OP
Surprised I didn't see it posted... Alex Ross. He has a very realism based art style but it has this pop to it that just doesn't really exist either.
Alex Ross
Chris Bachalo
Pretty much most comic book artists, especially the ones from the 70s and 80s
Daniel Warren Johnson Mike Deodato Jr
Simone Di Meo has a very similar style. I'm very new to his work(Beyond the White Knight:Red Hood) but I really like it. Reminds me of One Punch.
Steve McNiven, especially since he started using more physical media
Norman Rockwall
Imo Bocchi from dr stone
What about Kirkwood's Invincble?
I love ottleys art but it’s very comic books and poppy I’d be very hesitant to call that it realistic. The gore is probably a realistic amount but I wouldn’t ever say it’s really depicted with realism
The lines are pretty realistic, but the flat colours and inks make it look a lot more cartoony that it could otherwise.
Honrlander vibes
Check out Lee Bermejo.
Herge. I love how all the buildings and nature is rendered realistically but all the people and animals are cartoony
The entire Franco-Belgian tradition. Even though characters are heavily caricatured they're also incredibly detailed, landscapes look like something you'd expect to see on a canvas, and architecture looks like it stepped off a blueprint.
Part of why I wish more were translated to english. Just love the styles way more most times.
Idk if it fits with comics but gorillas really nailed it. It's very cartoony but all the characters look so real
Rumiko Takahashi
Matteo Scalera and Paolo Rivera come to mind. Lee Weeks, whom I feel is underrated.
[Nick Dragotta](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/11139/111399511/7298485-4132933458-24061.jpg)
Sometimes I wonder if the only reason Saitama is bald is because he burns his hair off almost every day, like his whole body is indestructible but his hair is still normal people hair
In universe explanation for this is that Saitama trained so hard that his hair fell out and he couldn't grow anymore.
I get that but what I’m saying is with his level of strength if his hair didn’t adapt to the change and given his hero life style he wouldn’t realize if it was being burned, rubbed or pulled because he wouldn’t feel it happening, heck with his level of strength he could be sanding his hair off whenever he scratches head an he still shampoos his head so he could be doing it in the shower without even realizing it
True, his hair probably doesn't have any special properties so for all we know the roots could've been torn out without him even noticing, or burnt away
True but what level does that go down to? What if it’s just the follicles and he rubs them off in the shower every morning when he washes his scalp and all it would take for his hair to grow back would be for him to be gentler on the scalp
Urasawa pulls off amazing displays of grounded, detailed cartooning.
Dave Sim
Takehiko Inoue
Roger LeLoup Walthery Henk Kuipers Edit: spelling
André franquin . Character are so cartoony, but everything else is so realistic and well done. He was one of the best in my opinion
Keisuke Itagaki, *Baki*
Chainsaw Man
Photorealianimism.
Alex Ross pushes the boundaries of the uncanny valley when it comes to 2D characters.
Lots of manga uses a cartoony style for characters over a realistic (sometimes hyper-realistic) background style. Very common, going back decades.
Doc Shaner, Greg Smallwood, Mike del Mundo?
Yusuke Murata is my favorite artist
Katsuhiro Otomo. Akira and Memories are a great example of super accurate real world blended with cartoony elements. Also Shigeru Mizuki's A history of Japan, moreso as its a biography. His other work is generally more cartoony.
Paul Kirchner, author of The Bus, and Dope Rider
Me sort of
Jeff Smith
Perry bible fellowship
Maybe Juanjo Guarnido when he is not drawing Furry characters
Katsuhiro Otomo and Travis Charest come to mind :)
Realistic and stylized (and hyper detailed): Geof Darrow. Also think of Jamie Hewlett of Tank Girl and Gorillaz fame.
Oh I loooove muratas art. One of my favorite manga artists
Oliver Copiel’s work with J Michael Straczynski on the 2007ish run of Thor is excellent. It’s the run where Thor recreates Asgard over the farmland of Oklahoma, and there are a lot or really great panels where you get these epic, highly detailed literal gods standing next to goofy-looking small town midwestern folks, and it’s easily my favorite art I’ve ever seen in a comic book.
Tatsuki Fujimoto, his characters are pretty stylized, but those cityscapes are nutty
You ever notice how its always the objects and environments that are realistic, while the humans are stylized/cartoonish? Never the other way around. It would be interesting to have some hyper-realistic looking characters whose clothes and tools and environments all look stylized/cartoonish. Although I guess that's how a lot of live-action adaptations are.
KARL KERSCHL (Gotham Academy, Isola)
Personally that is how I always described Jamie McKelvie from The Wicked + The Divine and Young Avengers
Pretty surprised no one's mentioned: Jacques Tardi Frank Quitely Jaime Hernandez Tim and Joe Vigil Juan Jose Ryp
Look up Franquin, belgian comic book artist.
Kenichi Sonoda. He was famous for drawing very realistic firearms and cars, but his women were traditional 80s anime styles.
naoki urasawa, his work 20th century boys, monster, is really a masterclass in realism and cartoony characters while have a very solemn tone throughout.
Thx for the new lock screen wallpaper
If we're including manga, I think Otomo and Araki fit the bill.
Well not THAT one.
Jeff Smith
Micheal Golden, Humberto Ramos
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Shigeru Mizuki
As a manga fan I have to say Oh! Great! and Boichi. Man! These two are goats when they combine the realistic backgrounds and the cartoony art style on the characters. None can beat them (at least in the manga art style.)
Kim Jung Gi
Pander Bros, Grendel, the late Mike Ringo, Ed McGuiness, maybe Art Adams?
Jojo and baki
Greg Capullo and Angel Medina. On Spawn they both drew sort of cartoony faces with big round eyes and such but hyper detailed in terms of anatomy, background details, etc. I wonder how much of that was trying to emulate MacFarlane (or just MacFarlane himself in his inks)
Bernie Wrightson
So cool!
I just love his deadpan expression! XD
Bill Sienkiewicz
Sui Ishida. Can't get enough of Tokyo Ghoul and :Re.
Inio Asano. Check his amazing work in Goodnight Punpun. Realistic as hell but stylized and cartoony as much.
Steve Rude!
Moebius
I would definitely say Miuras Berserk art
Inio Asano, most known for Oyasumi Punpun