What good does it do to invite artist Bart Sears to a specialty store?
0 Comments Published by Avi Green on Thursday, December 04, 2025 at 5:40 AM.
The Rome Sentinel (NY) reports the veteran artist Bart Sears will be attending a New Hartford specialty store's event:
Perhaps this can serve as an important lesson for store managers and other folks arranging conventions, that they shouldn't make fools of themselves by sugarcoating artists whose styles are in questionable taste. After all, Liefeld for one was a prime example of an overrated artist who sullied the industry 3 decades ago, though the real culprits are the editors and publishers who hired him in the first place. But, it does explain why Sears was hired by Marvel/DC years before too, and considering how bad artwork's become under their managements now, Liefeld and Sears were just the beginning.
Longtime comic book artist and Ithaca native Bart Sears will be visiting Ravenswood Comics in New Hartford for a signing and art event from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6.I seem to recall some of Sears' artwork was very dismayingly "puffy", making Capt. America, for example, look as dreadful as Rob Liefeld's artwork, and IIRC, even his character design for Power Girl in Justice League back in 1989 was awful. I have no idea if Sears' styles have improved in the 2 decades since, but what's so great about this guy that a specialty store has to make a potential joke of themselves by inviting him? If I were in charge of the store, I definitely wouldn't want to invite Liefeld. Only talented and competent artists need apply.
Sears has been an artist in the comic book industry since the 1980s, drawing such comics as “Justice League International,” “Turok: Dinosaur Hunter,” “Conan the Barbarian,” and many more. He has worked for major publishers like Marvel and DC Comics and has produced his own, creator-owned works.
Perhaps this can serve as an important lesson for store managers and other folks arranging conventions, that they shouldn't make fools of themselves by sugarcoating artists whose styles are in questionable taste. After all, Liefeld for one was a prime example of an overrated artist who sullied the industry 3 decades ago, though the real culprits are the editors and publishers who hired him in the first place. But, it does explain why Sears was hired by Marvel/DC years before too, and considering how bad artwork's become under their managements now, Liefeld and Sears were just the beginning.
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