Comic Book Art

Question:
Sorry if this is obvious, just saw a reference to comic book art as line art and I had never heard the term (line art.) I read a little bit about it on Wikipedia.

Answer:
Comic books merely *start* as line art. They are then colored, the artistry of which was, until recently, valued less than that of the line drawing. However, with the advent of computerized coloring, the skill of coloring has been considered more artistic and more technically demanding than previously.
Just recently, I saw my first line art comic with fully painted colors, so I suspect that the medium has finally evolved to it's fullest potential in this direction. I hope that this is representative of current, routine practice. :)
Of course, completely painted work that was never line drawings extends back at least to the Tarzan comics of the fifties, and possibly earlier, but those were typically only covers, and it wasn't until Frazetta and Boris Vallejo began doing magazine covers in the seventies, that painted covers were held in great esteem.
Before those covers, the most notable ones were probably on Dell/Gold Key titles, of which "Lost In Space" and "The Twilight Zone" are excellent examples.

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