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Sideways:
Well he comes across as this supremely arrogant & condescending asshat, so far as his internet persona goes.  While many other popular webcomic artists/authors are very humble about their success, he name-drops constantly, and seems to love to remind people of his image comics deal.

He just comes across as one of those guys who isn't happy unless he's talking about himself.  He's not even a good artist.  He knows how to draw his very limited selection of characters, in very limited poses/settings... the man can hardly even draw a BACKGROUND!

That being said, I normally chuckle at about 1/20 of his comics, so I do visit every week or so, to catch up, and see if I've missed anything.  I just don't read his posts anymore, as they used to get my ire up something fierce.

jeph:
Kurtz can draw a lot better than many people think. The sketchbook stuff he's been posting on weekends is evidence of this. He's got a really tight, easily-identifiable style.

That being said, he does indeed seem to enjoy picking fights. Not really my style, but to each his own.

Sideways:
The reason I don't consider him that great of an artist is - oddly - because of those sketches.  He doesn't have smooth lines, and sort of just attacks the paper, with an idea in his head, until a rough approximation of it is shown.  I don't consider that to be good art.  I am - however - an insufferable snob, who isn't really a good artist in his own right... so maybe I'm projecting insecurities here?  Meh. :)

Yeah, If I saw you pick a fight Jeph, I'd be in total shock.

With Scott Kurtz and (especially) Sean Howard, it's sort of par for the course.


--- Quote from: James ---C'mon, man; he is a good artist. You only have to look at his "very limited selection of characters" to know that.
--- End quote ---


I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.  My point was that he's only good at drawing those characters, in almost the same poses, every comic.  There's nothing dynamic about his comics, 99% of the time... he could just be copying & pasting as far as I can tell.

happybirthdaygelatin:
The artistic style of PvP could easily fit into syndicated stuff, I wonder it's just that alot of the gaming based stuff makes it seem like a hard sell that get's some of the easy way out stereotype thrown into the comic.  No hate here, just not my cup of tea.

Sideways:
Kurtz has spoken openly, in the past, about how PVP was designed specifically for Syndication.  However, in pushing the comic for syndication, via the web, he became insanely popular on the web, and switched his focus around 180 degrees.

He's not a bad artist, he's just not an 'artist'.  He's a cartoonist, and he's good at drawing the characters he's already been drawing for years now.  I've just never looked at a single comic/frame/sketch he's drawn, and been wowed, even slightly.

Ian McConville, of www.machall.com fame, now HE is a FANTASTIC artist!  Probably the best I've ever seen on the web!  Well, there was that one comic about the boy and his dog, which was just incredibly well drawn... but I'd still probably put Ian's work ahead of it.

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