It makes you sad just because Wolverine is popular, or do you just not like the character? The former is illogical, but the latter is understandable. I hate the Sentry, for instance, so Alan Moore and George Perez working on the character would make me sad.

Marcelo Frusin. Jason Aaron. Wolverine. Done.

Both those creators are so much better than Wolverine, that the very idea just makes me sad.

My wife and I met Frusin at San Diego, back in 2004. If it wasn't his first SDCC, it was definitely his first sitting at the DC pavilion, and he was looking a tad overwhelmed. But once my wife starting speaking to him in Spanish, he immediately relaxed and did the following sketch for us:

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Page=2&Order=Date&Piece=354271&GSub=55494&GCat=0&UCat=0

And, yes, his not being able to do every issue of Loveless must have been a major factor in the poor sales.

EM

Hooray for South American artists!

I really enjoyed his run on Hellblazer, in which Azzarello and Carey put him to good use.

However, I liked his Loveless run, BUT unfortunately, he didn't do most of the 24-25 issue run.
This I'm sure led to the lower sales that cancelled the book.
If he and the other fill-in artist, Zezelj, did more work, I'm sure Loveless could have lasted another 2 years.

Hope to see a spotlight on Zezelj!!!

As for Frusin's work being reminiscent of Risso's, well... it is. But I'm willing to chalk it up to them being influenced by the same artists and environment than any deliberate attempt by Frusin to ape the more popular Risso's work (not that I think you were alluding to it or anything). You can find similar artistic quirks in works by fellow South American pencillers such as the late Carlos Meglia, Dargaud's T.Léo, and to a lesser extent, Gabriel Bá. I don't know if there are enough shared tendencies to argue for the existence of an emergent "Latin American" style of comic art, though.

Also, I guess I am trying not to do too many similar artists in a row, so maybe that's a theme in and of itself, no?

Here’s an Argentinian (is it seriously Argentine rather than Argentinian?) artist who I keep waiting for DC or Marvel to give a high profile book to (unless Hellblazer counts, in which case he’s already had a high profile book, but still, he needs one NOW).

No!
Keep him on good books, not big one's!

Although I like all of his work, it's the first arc he did with Azzarello on Hellblazer that I love, 'Good Intentions'.
It helps that the story is so good as well, but he did a really good job capturing the look and feel of the town, as well as the scenes crossing back to the punk scene in England.
He also did a good job of keeping the conversations as exciting as the action.

Now it's time for some pedantry!
The first page of Hellblazer isn't an Azzarello issue!
It was written by Warren Ellis when Frusin did a single issue during Ellis' really promising, but really short lived run on the title.
(I almost wish that he hadn't stuck to his principles on that one, just because I was enjoying his run so much).

It was a pretty funny issue, made even more so when I found out that most of the jokes were Ellis just lifting words straight from David Icke!
I'm not sure if he's still a regular target of Ellis' but I know he used to talk about him/mock him/feel sorry for him quite reguarly. For the uninitiated his websites here, http://www.davidicke.com/index.php/ but be warned, this is a man who truly believes damn near every conspiracy theory is true, that turquoise is the colour of love, and that the royal family are giant lizards.