CBR: Steven Grant on Steranko & Krigstein

Comic Book Resources hosts Steven Grant's weekly column, which this week includes a brief discussion of the groundbreaking work of Steranko and Bernie Krigstein (with a few examples to drool over): While "doing some research this past week on an unrelated project, I ended up looking at some comics pages I hadn't seen in a long time, from Jim Steranko and Bernie Krigstein, and I still find them as surprising as the first time I saw them. Of the two, Krigstein is actually the more original and idiosyncratic, but to some extent that also makes him the less significant of the two in the broader scope of comics art; being more of a dramatist in the theatrical sense than a storyteller in the comics sense, his was a style few others could aspire to. Krigstein stands as a solitary island in a vast sea, while Steranko remains a life raft. Unlike Steranko, Krigstein shares one trait with the great majority of American comics artists: much of his work, especially work produced for companies other than EC (which somewhat encouraged experimentation) and Atlas (which doesn't seem to have cared as long as publishable pages arrives), he was in the position much of his career of having to dumb down his work to editorial specifications."