because someone went and found Larry Stroman. CBR's got the scoop.
It's funny because dude has created this air of mystery by his very absence, kind of like how people used to wonder about whatever happened to Sly Stone. Maybe Mr. Stroman was inspired by Sly's recent Grammy appearance and Vanity Fair article?
Stroman's popularity wasn't all mystery and hype, though. Dude could put serious burn on the page. Honed by early work as a caricaturist (if I'm remembering correctly), his style's never been really imitated or aped. Hell, even his influences are hard to track, though I'd guess that he studied some Michael Golden and/or Marshall Rogers back in the day. He always applied interesting layouts to both individual panels and whole pages, and used strong constrasts and sharp design sense to make even older characters seem fresh.
I first encountered him on Alien Legion from It always seemed like his work held a special significance for black nerds like me, because one could suspect--based from certain anatomical, er, proclivities--that the guy drawing Peter David's mid-90s run on X-Factor was a brother. Say what you will about essentializing conclusions with regard to artistic technique, but he knew how to draw curves on women in a way that differed from the more egregious T&A art. People who read his independent book Tribe know what I mean.
Well, I liked the Rise & Fall of the Shiar Empire, Brubaker's intial arc on Uncanny X-Men, so Stroman's art will give me another reason to pick this up.
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What no mention of 'Tribe'
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