I suspect you only say this because you read on your phone. The true strength of black-and-white illustration is in being able to see how individual pen stroke

I suspect you only say this because you read on your phone. The true strength of black-and-white illustration is in being able to see how individual pen strokes have contributed to the feel of the final image. To do this properly you really need a physically large image (and the artist to have started with the intention of producing a physically large image). I didn't think Naoko Takeuchi was that great of an artist until I read the Eternal edition of her magnum opus, and the difference is night and day. Halftones, delicate hatching and thin lines all turn to mush when anti-aliased, so they just won't show up in a medium optimised for grabbing the attention of the infinite-scrolling phone-reader with thumbnail-sized images.