Editing Curt Swan (section)

==Art style==
Comics historian Arlen Schumer praised Swan's ability to depict "the spectrum of human emotion, from agony to anger, mournful to mirthful."<ref>Schumer, Arlen in Zeno "The Curt Swan Gallery", p. 100</ref> As characterized by critic Paul Gravett, Swan's Superman made "...{{nbsp}}Krypton's last son in exile, the alien in our midst, into someone like us, who would think and feel as well as act, who was approachable, big-hearted, considerate, maybe physically superpowerful yet gentle, noble yet subtly tragic."<ref name="Gravett" /> In a similar vein, Swan biographer Eddy Zeno calls Swan "the [[Norman Rockwell]] of ... comics."<ref>Zeno "Summation", p. 185</ref> [[Gary Groth]], the editor-in-chief of ''[[The Comics Journal]]'', was less complimentary, remarking that "Swan is symptomatic of what the industry requires. They adore Swan at DC because they give Swan a script and it says 'Superman flies out the window'...and there's Superman flying out the window. The script says 'Clark Kent walking down the hall' and there's Clark Kent walking down a hall. He's just a technician who does exactly what's required of him."<ref>{{cite news|last = Groth| first= Gary|date = Fall 1982|title = John Byrne at Dallas|work = [[The Comics Journal]]|issue = 75|pages = 62–74|publisher = [[Fantagraphics Books]]}}</ref>

With his frequent inker [[Murphy Anderson]] from 1970 to 1974 and 1988 to 1989, the pair's collaborative artwork came to be called "Swanderson" by the fans.<ref name="Gravett" /> Despite his and Anderson's success together, Swan's favorite inker was [[Al Williamson]], with whom he only worked for a short time, from 1985 to 1986.<ref>Zeno "New Glories in the '80s and '90s", p. 40</ref>