Andy and Dave! Good chums and really good at what they do. I believe Dave is neglected when discussing the artists of The New X-Men. Dave established a real-world style that brought some gravity to any storyline. He also co-created Storm, Colossus and oh yeah, Nightcrawler (with Writer/Creator Chris Claremont). Dave sadly passed, way too young in 2006. Andy may have been Marvel’s most accomplished colorist and staff color correction artist. I say that because he did the majority of his work when photostat paper was the medium colored on. Watching Andy cut around a shape with an X-Acto knife, peel up the photographic emulsion and tape down an identical but newly colored one into that space, was a lesson in exactitude and patience! And he was a really, really good model maker. He spent his pre-Marvel years at old modeler’s touchstone of greatness, Aurora Modelling!
Andy and Dave! Good chums and really good at what they do. I believe Dave is neglected when discussing the artists of The New X-Men. Dave established a real-world style that brought some gravity to any storyline. He also co-created Storm, Colossus and oh yeah, Nightcrawler (with Writer/Creator Chris Claremont). Dave sadly passed, way too young in 2006. Andy may have been Marvel’s most accomplished colorist and staff color correction artist. I say that because he did the majority of his work when photostat paper was the medium colored on. Watching Andy cut around a shape with an X-Acto knife, peel up the photographic emulsion and tape down an identical but newly colored one into that space, was a lesson in exactitude and patience! And he was a really, really good model maker. He spent his pre-Marvel years at old modeler’s touchstone of greatness, Aurora Modelling!
