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Ian Churchill
Ian Churchill (born 1969) is a British comic book artist, who has mostly worked in the American comic book industry. Career Churchill's early work included stints on ''Supergirl (comic book), Supergirl'', ''Uncanny X-Men'' as well as the ''Deadpool (comics), Deadpool: Sins of the Past'' Limited series (comics), limited series, in addition to a lengthy stay on ''Cable (comic book), Cable'', the latter gaining him (along with writer Jeph Loeb) fan acclaim. Loeb and Churchill were to later team up to produce ''Coven'' and ''Lionheart'' for Awesome Comics. He was the initial artist for the most recent spin-off of the ''Teen Titans'' comic series, ''Titans,'' (vol. 2) which features the New Teen Titans of the Marv Wolfman/George Pérez era. In 2009 Churchill drew the "Code Red" story arc in ''Hulk (comic book), Hulk'', which introduced the Red She-Hulk. The title, inked by Mark Farmer, saw a change in his usual drawing style, the result of a shoulder injury which required surgery. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cable (comic Book)
''Cable'' is the name of multiple comic book titles featuring the character Cable (comics), Cable and published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the original ''Cable'' comic book series which debuted in 1993. Publication history In 1992, the character was featured in his first solo series, a two issue miniseries, titled ''Cable: Blood and Metal'', written by Fabian Nicieza, pencilled by John Romita, Jr., and inked by Dan Green (artist), Dan Green, published in October and November of that year. Volume 1 Shortly after ''Blood and Metal'', Cable was given his own ongoing series titled ''Cable''. The book initially had trouble finding a stable creative team. A writer/penciller team would complete no more than three issues in a row until Jeph Loeb and Ian Churchill began work on issue #20 and finish on #35 (though with a gap between issues #20 and #21 due to the Age of Apocalypse event). Loeb and Churchill provided the first instance of stability, working together on 15 of the 20 iss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Book Resources
''CBR'', formerly ''Comic Book Resources'', is a news website primarily covering comic book news, comic book reviews, and comic book–related topics involving movies, television, anime, and video games. It is owned by Valnet, parent of publications including ''Screen Rant'', ''Collider (website), Collider'', ''MovieWeb'' and XDA Developers. History ''Comic Book Resources'' (''CBR'') was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1995 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland created to discuss DC Comics' then-new Kingdom Come (comic), mini-series of the same name. ''CBR'' has featured columns by industry professionals such as Robert Kirkman, Gail Simone, and Mark Millar. Other columns were published by comic book historians and critics such as George Khoury (writer), George Khoury and Timothy Callahan. Acquisition by Valnet By April 4, 2016, ''CBR'' was sold to Valnet Inc., a Montreal, Canada–based company that owns other media properties includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCrea (comics)
John McCrea (born 1966) is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis. Career In 1989, after a few years of drawing television and toy tie-ins, he illustrated Ennis's debut, the political series ''Troubled Souls'', in ''Crisis (comic), Crisis'', as well as its sequel, the farce ''For a Few Troubles More''. He later illustrated the series ''Carla Allison'' in ''Deadline magazine, Deadline''. He broke into American comics in 1993, drawing Ennis's run on DC Comics's ''The Demon (comics), The Demon'', followed by its spin-off, ''Hitman (DC Comics), Hitman'', from 1996 to 2001, on which McCrea developed a versatile drawing style equally at home with goofy humour, action, and subtle characterisation. Hitman issue 34 won the Eisner Award for Eisner Award for Best Single Issue/One-Shot, Best Single Issue in 1999. His wilder, more exaggerated cartooning found an outlet with ''Dicks'', a mini-series spinning off from ''For a Few Troubles More'' into mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lafuente
David Lafuente is a Spanish-born comic book artist known for his work on books such as '' Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man''. He currently resides in London.NYCC '09 - David Lafuente on Ultimate Spider-Man , February 12, 2009 Career Lafuente first penciled such series as ''Phénix'' and '' Kabur'' (written by Jean-Marc Lofficier) for Hexagon Comics, then was discovered ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Furman
Simon Christopher Francis Furman (born 22 March 1961) is a British comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' franchise, starting with writing Marvel Comics's initial comic book to promote the toyline worldwide, as well as foundations for both Dreamwave Production's and IDW Publishing's takes on the '' Generation 1'' minifranchise. Career Furman was born in Carshalton, Surrey, and had no tertiary education. Furman is best known for his work on the ''Transformers'' comic by Marvel Comics. Furman took over as the writer of the Marvel US ''Transformers'' comic after its earlier writer Bob Budiansky decided he had had enough of the comic. Marvel UK, Furman's employer at the time, invited Budiansky over to the UK, and Furman was chosen as Budiansky's successor over a lunch at Covent Garden in London. Furman started his run in the US comic cautiously at first, but later invented an origin story for the ''Transformers'' that involved an ancie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Fegredo
Duncan Fegredo (; born 1964) is a British comic book artist. Career Born in Leicester, Fegredo first managed to get into comics after showing his portfolio around UKCAC in 1987 and meeting Dave Thorpe. Together they worked on a strip for a short lived British magazine called ''Heartbreak Hotel''. After this, Fegredo worked at ''Crisis'' for Fleetway before working on '' Kid Eternity'' at DC Comics with writer Grant Morrison. He then worked with writer Peter Milligan on '' Enigma'', an eight-issue miniseries for DC's Vertigo imprint. At '' 2000 AD'' he worked on ''Judge Dredd'' and a couple of other titles. Other work includes the comic-book versions of Kevin Smith's '' Jay and Silent Bob'' characters, '' Shade the Changing Man'' and '' Ultimate Adventures'' For a few years, Duncan Fegredo was the regular artist on '' Dark Horse's'' '' Hellboy'' series. Fegredo's six-issue miniseries, '' Hellboy: Darkness Calls'', was the first Hellboy miniseries that did not feature Hellboy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Coipel
Olivier Coipel (; November 7, 1969) is a French people, French comic book artist, known for his work on books such as ''House of M'', ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' and ''Thor (Marvel Comics), Thor''. Career Olivier Coipel started as a movie animator, working as an assistant on ''Balto (film), Balto'' and then ''The Prince of Egypt'', then as a full animator at ''The Road to El Dorado''. Among his influences are Arthur Adams (comics), Arthur Adams. Coipel came to prominence and significant controversy as the artist of the American DC Comics book ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' during the tenure of writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, beginning with the "Legion of the Damned" story arc. Coipel signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics in January 2005. He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's "Young Guns," a group of artists that included Jim Cheung, David Finch (comics), David Finch, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov, and Steve McNiven, which according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Braithwaite
Doug Braithwaite is a British comic book artist. Career Braithwaite began his career working in the British comics industry starting with '' 2000 AD'' and '' A1''; later he worked on Marvel's ''Earth X'' sequels, ''Universe X'' and ''Paradise X'' (with Alex Ross and Jim Krueger). His other works under Marvel include '' The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe'' and '' Punisher: MAX'' #13–18, with Garth Ennis. He had been exclusively contracted at DC, but in 2008 he announced that when his contract deal ended he would sign as an exclusive artist with Marvel for three years with his first project being ''Secret Invasion: Thor'' with writer Matt Fraction. While at DC he worked with Alex Ross and Jim Krueger again on the twelve-issue limited series ''JUSTICE'', providing pencils and layouts. In addition, he has illustrated issues of ''Ghost'' for Dark Horse Comics, ''Archer & Armstrong'', for Valiant Comics, and ''Conan the Barbarian'' for Titan Comics. In 2008 he illustrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock (artist)
Mark Simpson, known by the pen name Jock, is a Scottish cartoonist, best known for his work in '' 2000 AD'', '' The Losers'', and more recently ''Batman'' and ''Wolverine''. He is also known for '' Wytches'' by Image Comics. Career Comics Jock began his professional career at British comics magazine '' 2000 AD'', on series including ''Judge Dredd'' and ''Lenny Zero'', the latter with writer Andy Diggle. It was with Diggle that he got his big break in the American comic book market at DC Comics and their Vertigo imprint, working on '' The Losers'' and '' Green Arrow: Year One''. Also at Vertigo and with Mike Carey, another former ''2000 AD'' writer, Jock worked on an issue of ''Hellblazer'' and the '' Faker'' limited series, returning the character John Constantine in the graphic novel '' Hellblazer: Pandemonium'' with Jamie Delano. Following his run on ''Green Arrow'' he got more work on main DC universe titles, in particular two storylines on ''Detective Comics'', the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Romita Jr
John Salvatore Romita (; born August 17, 1956) is an American comics artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2020s. He is the son of artist John Romita Sr. Early life John Romita Jr. was born August 17, 1956, the son of Virginia (Bruno) and comic book artist John Romita Sr., one of the signature ''Spider-Man'' artists since the 1960s. He studied advertising art and design at Farmingdale State College in East Farmingdale, New York, graduating in 1976. Career Romita Jr.'s first contribution to Marvel Comics was at the age of 13 with the creation of the original Prowler (Marvel Comics), Prowler, a sketch of which Romita had produced. Editor Stan Lee liked the name but not the costume; Romita combined the name with a design that he had previously intended for a character called the Stalker that was intended for the never-published ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #3. Inspired by Romita's drawing, Lee, John Buscema and Jim Mooney created the Hobi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Quitely
Vincent Patrick Deighan (born January 18, 1968), better known by the pen name Frank Quitely, is a Scottish people, Scottish comic book artist. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Grant Morrison on titles such as ''New X-Men (2001 series), New X-Men'', ''We3'', ''All-Star Superman'', and ''Batman and Robin (comic book), Batman and Robin'', as well as his work with Mark Millar on ''The Authority (comics), The Authority'' and ''Jupiter's Legacy (comic), Jupiter's Legacy''. Early life Deighan was raised in Rutherglen, although attended St. Bride's High School in East Kilbride (as his father worked there as a Physical education, PE teacher). He studied drawing at the Glasgow School of Art. Career Deighan worked up the Scottish underground comics title ''Electric Soup'' in 1990, writing and drawing ''The Greens (comics), The Greens'', a parody of ''The Broons'' strip published by D. C. Thomson & Co., D. C. Thomson. It was in working on this book that he adopted the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Gibbons
David Chester Gibbons (born 14 April 1949) is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries ''Watchmen'' and the Superman story " For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for '' 2000 AD'', for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977. Early life Gibbons was born on 14 April 1949, at Forest Gate Hospital in London, to Chester, a town planner, and Gladys, a secretary. He began reading comic books at the age of seven. A self-taught artist, he illustrated his own comic strips. Gibbons became a building surveyor but eventually entered the UK comics industry as a letterer for IPC Media. He left his surveyor job to focus on his comics career. British comics work Gibbons's earliest published work was in British underground comics, starting with ''The Trials of Nasty Tales'', including the main cover illustration, and continuing in ''cOZmic C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
