My friend Steve (Bryant) is a full-time comic book artist and I remembered our frequent debates about who rocked versus who sucked. Since I can’t draw a decent circle let alone an acceptable face, you know I lost the argument every time. I think the Onion‘s WI roots leak out when they named Steve Rude too; an awesome artist yet I don’t think he has quite the body of work most people would recognize as Jack Kirby, Alex Ross or Carl Barks.
Check it out here, it’s quite detailed and a worthy tutorial for anyone trying to learn more. I guess they excluded Frank Miller because his contribution was more on the storytelling side.