Superman Through the Ages! Forum

Thanks for the greatness Curt - wherever you are - be it Kandor, Metropolis, Krypton, beneath Wayne Manor or at 344 Clinton Street -
we'll always remember your and our Superman. :s:

Amen!

Nice one, Klar! It never even occurred to me that he had a birthday. I was going to say something stupid like "I miss his art", but then I realised that I don't have to. There's as much Curt Swan art around, even in my modest collection, as I could ever wish for. It's still around, and as long as we keep looking at it, so will he be.

I just wish he were still around to tell the present incumbents how it's done, because I must say, I'm finding the art in the Superman titles a bit insipid...

Look!  Up in the sky...

Good time as any to read this classic tale: http://superman.nu/tales2/flew/

Swan really did draw the best Superman. I loved the realistic way that he drew Superman.

Just out of curiosity, how old would Swan be today?

86

Just checkin' in, it IS Curt after all... 8)

Thanks, Curt Swan, for all the memories that your art gave me, and a generation of comic book readers.

If there is a regret about Curt Swan, it is that his art was everywhere in the Superman books, and consequently we took Curt Swan and his genius for granted. I for one, only started to truly, truly appreciate him after he died. The prospect of not having any more realistic, anatomically correct, wildly imaginative, stylish, correct Superman art was scary and sobering.

Thanks, Curt - you were the greatest Superman artist there ever was.

Happy birthday to one of the men who made Superman great.

It's hard to believe that FOUR DECADES worth of Superman art could seem like "not enough" but it's truly seems that way to me. If only Curt's time had been longer.

That splash page (http://superman.nu/images/curt.jpg) of (and by) Curt Swan (http://superman.nu/a/swan.php) is the first picture I ever scanned for this website.

Without Curt, I don't think Superman would have made it as far as he did.

:s:

I was watching Superman Season 2 and the Defeat of Superman has his first TV encounter of kryptonite and when George was laying there affectedall I could think of was a similar pose that Curt did in the classic "Last Days of Superman" novel.

As with any penciller, it depends sometimes who's inks aid or ruin the art. But ACurt's pencils weere so clean, so pwoerful that whether Styan Kaye, Geo Klein, Murph, Frank Giacoa or Dave Hunt, the rowk is unmistakable Curt's.

And as many times as Ive read "I Flew With Superman" here, I read it again. :)

Sorry to have missed this tribute thread on the day of, but I figure better late than never, so...

Happy Birthday, Curt!  We miss you.