Dale Keown (; born July 23, 1962) is a Canadian

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artist known for his runs on ''

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'' and his creator-owned comic book '' Pitt''.

Career

Keown started working in comics in 1986 drawing several series for

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, including ''Samurai'', ''Elflord'', ''Dragon Ring'' (later ''Dragonforce''), and '' Warlock 5''. Keown moved to

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in 1989, where he first worked on '' Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja'', before replacing Jeff Purves on ''

''. Keown worked on Hulk with writer

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, creating one of the more memorable runs of the book. David has named Keown one of the three artists whose art has mostly closely matched the visuals he conceived when writing a comic book scripts (the others being

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and

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). He left in 1993, to start publishing his self-created '' Pitt'' at

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. Keown was originally offered "founder" status at Image after

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withdrew to deal with his sister's illness but declined due to having a criminal record making traveling outside of Canada difficult. In 1995, publication of ''Pitt'' was moved over to Keown's own company, Full Bleed Studios. He eventually began working for other companies once more, drawing '' The Darkness'' for

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and teaming up with

once more with '' Hulk: The End'' for Marvel. Keown also drew a

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featuring The Darkness and the Hulk. Keown drew many of the pictures for the Hulk memorabilia that was released to coincide with the 2003 feature film ''

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''. In 2009 Keown illustrated the three-issue crossover of ''The Darkness / Pitt'', which was written by Paul Jenkins. It was preceded by a special preview book released in December 2006. Keown worked with

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' ''

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'', which premiered June 2009.

Bibliography

Aircel Publishing

* ''Dragonforce'' #1-12 (1988–89) -from #5 it was published by

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- * ''Dragonring'' #9-15 (1987–88) * ''Samurai'' #13-16 (full art); #23 (among other artists) (1986–87) * ''Warlock 5'' #16-17 (1988)

DC

* ''

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'', vol. 2, #170 (2001)

Image

* ''

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'', vol. 2, #1-6 (2002) * ''The Darkness/ Pitt'' #1-3 (2009) * '' Pitt'' #1-20 (1993–99) -from #10 it was published by Full Bleed Studios- * '' Tomb Raider: Journeys'' (Darkness) #8 (2002) * '' Youngblood'' (Pitt) #4 (1993)

Marvel

* ''

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'' #367, 369-377, 379, 381-388, 390-393, 395-398 (1990-1992) * '' Hulk: The End'', one-shot (2002) * ''Incredible Hulk: Last Call'' #1 (2019) * ''

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(Vol. 1)'' #1-3, 5 (2020) * ''Giant-Size Hulk'' #1 (2006) * ''

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(Vol. 5)'' #34.1 (2014) * ''Avengers (Vol. 8)'' #26, 39 (2019-2020) * '' Heroes Reborn (Vol. 2)'' #2 (2021) * ''

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(Vol. 1)'' #8 (1990)

Image/Marvel

* ''Hulk/Pitt'', one-shot (1996) * ''The Darkness/Hulk'', one-shot (2004)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keown, Dale Living people Eisner Award winners for Best Writer/Artist 1962 births