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RE: Onslaught Reborn #4 - A Quick Look Inside
I'm never quite sure how to feel about Campbell covers. I'm a cheesecake fan and when I first started collecting I hit my LCS to start dragging out cover price books of his but lately I just cant seem to find the impetus to care, even for his older stuff.
I feel so good, I learned a new term tonight, "cheesecake" lol. I went and Google'd J Scott Campbell Cheesecake because I thought you were referencing some book of his I hadn't heard of, then came across this article:
https://13thdimension.com/in-defense-of-cheesecake/
I don't even know what to say or how to comment on this, I don't think I have ever bought a book based on a 'cheesecake' factor, but I can see the view of a person who would say that anything that Campbell draws or how maybe a Adam Hughes or Frank Cho draws females, but I always just felt these were style choices, as the way they draw all their characters are defined by their style, male or female.
Seems like a weird but interesting topic, but I feel only the artist themselves could really say if they are a cheesecake artist or not.
About your comment itself, it just sounds like you are about good on comic book art and maybe doing a personal shift into the writing side of comics (I don't know your background so just talking poop here). I know I have had times were my favorite artist could do a variant on my favorite character and it not be something I care about depending on what is tickling my fancy in the comic world at the time.
The More You Know!
It's funny I was actually introduced to it all by being a big Bruce Timm fan of, Batman The Animated Adventures fame. He has the penchant for drawing....umm, provocative women in his spare time and makes no bones about it. Even has published some books i.e. Naughty or Nice. I happen to own one of the original pieces featured in that book and commissioned a Red Sonja from him! (chainmail bikini included)
People will always make issues out of things but in the end you like what you like. I think all of the artists mentioned by both of us are tops at their game.
It's so weird seeing Timm mentioned like this. I just see him and like Darwyn Cooke's work as being style choices, with both these two just leaning heavily on cartoon/animation styling. I know of the Naughty or Nice book/s he had put out, but that project just felt like what that was, not so much though like a view of Timm's work overall.
I just find this cheesecake thing kind of interesting, like it's a weird way to view an artists work. However in the specific case of J Scott Campbell, I think I remember reading an interview when I was younger where he stated he learned to draw women from pornography magazines, so I guess there is more ammo for that side of the discussion.