When the big overall of the X-Men Books in the early nineties were done using most of the artists who would go on to leave and create Image Comics, my favorite book was X-Factor, written by Peter David and drawn by an artist I had never heard of. Larry Stroman's art added a cadence to David's prose that hasn't been duplicated since. Stroman was a black creator who would later also join Image Comics and create Tribes, which remains the largest-selling African-American-created comic of all time.
I didn't know Stroman was black at the time I was reading X-Factor, but it makes sense in retrospect given how many black characters were were added to the book to mix with the editorially pre-selected all-white main cast. I found it refreshing as it made the book feel more real world than anything else Marvel was peddling at the time. Above is the page from X-Factor #75, written by David with pencil by Stroman and impressive inking by Al Milgrom.
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