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Preface this by saying this is probably definitely an unpopular objectively wrong opinion, but Sean Cliver's artwork is straight trash.
I get how these Rocky Horror boards aren't everyone's thing (a bit of a Hook-Ups feel), but Cliver is one of the best to ever do it. Also, the Chemtrails board is Todd Bratrud's
You're correct about the Chemtrails deck, I wrongly assumed they were all his graphics. My bad.
I find it hard to believe you can have an "objectively wrong opinion" on art. Powell graphics always looked terrible to me. I was interested if anyone else shared the same sentiment. Evidently not. Out of the OG's dudes, I always loved Lucero's stuff.
I grew up drawing and was in love with VCJ’s old stuff, Jimbo is a god, and Steve Naazer (classic T&C surf) were my favorites. I didn’t appreciate Lucero until much later.
New VCJ has none of the attention to detail of the originals, he’s just shitting stuff out for Powell, including &&’s deck (which I can’t stand, graphics-wise).
The only Cliver stuff I liked were his illustrations for Big Brother. He’s good, but doesn’t have the natural sense of composition that Jimbo and VCJ had.