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David Lafuente
David Lafuente is a People of Spain, 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 Newsarama, February 12, 2009 Uses the pen name Darko Lafuente since 2019. Career Lafuente first penciled such series as ''Phénix'' and ''Kabur'' (written by Jean-Marc Lofficier) for Hexagon Comics, then was discovered by Marvel Editor C.B. Cebulski at the Dublin City Comic Con during the editor's self-named talent search ''ChesterQuest''", though the artist's official website displays professional work dated much earlier than this. His first work for Marvel was doing the layouts and coloring for ''Spider-Man Family #2,'' Published in 2007. His ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Of Spain
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance peoples, Romance ethnic group native to Spain. Within Spain, there are a number of National and regional identity in Spain, national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex History of Spain, history, including a number of different languages, both indigenous and local linguistic descendants of the Roman Empire, Roman-imposed Latin language, of which Spanish language, Spanish is the largest and the only one that is official throughout the whole country. Commonly spoken regional languages include, most notably, the sole surviving indigenous language of Iberia, Basque language, Basque, as well as other Latin-descended Romance languages like Spanish itself, Catalan language, Catalan and Galician language, Galician. Many populations outside Spain have ancestors who Spanish diaspora, emigrated from Spain and share elements of a Hispanic culture. The most notable of these comprise Hispanic America in the Western Hemisp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Millar
Mark Millar (; born 24 December 1969) is a Scottish comic book writer and television producer who first came to prominence with a run on the superhero series '' The Authority'', published by DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. Millar has written extensively for Marvel Comics, including runs on ''The Ultimates'', which has been called "the comic book of the decade" by ''Time'' magazine and described as a major inspiration for the 2012 film '' The Avengers'' by its screenwriter Zak Penn, ''X-Men'', '' Fantastic Four'' and ''Avengers'' for Marvel's Ultimate imprint, as well as ''Marvel Knights Spider-Man'' and ''Wolverine''. In 2006, Millar wrote the ''Civil War'' mini-series that served as the centrepiece for the eponymous company-wide crossover storyline and later inspired the Marvel Studios film '' Captain America: Civil War''. The "Old Man Logan" storyline, published as part of Millar's run on ''Wolverine'', served as the inspiration for the 2017 film '' Logan''. Millar has written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Sharp
Liam Roger Sharp (born 2 May 1968) is a British comic book artist, writer, publisher, and co-founder/CCO of Madefire Inc. Early life Liam Sharp was born in Derby. He went to School at Brackensdale Junior then infants school, before moving to Allestree Lawn Junior school because of his parents' work. At the suggestion of his teachers he was advised to meet with the Gifted Children's Society, who in turn advised St. Andrew's Prep School in Meads, Eastbourne, to take Sharp on and establish their first Art Scholarship. He then went on to win the first Art Scholarship to Eastbourne College, where he stayed until his A Levels. Career Sharp made his debut in the 1980s for the science fiction magazine '' 2000 AD'' after a year's apprenticeship with Don Lawrence, artist on the Dutch comic ''Storm''. His works included many ''Judge Dredd'' stories, the origin of '' Finn'', ''ABC Warriors'' series and one of ''Tharg's Future Shocks''. He later moved to Marvel UK, for which he drew t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Phillips
Sean Phillips (born 27 January 1965) is a British comic book artist, best known for his collaborations with Ed Brubaker on comics including '' Sleeper'', ''Incognito'', the '' Criminal'' series of comics, '' Fatale'', '' The Fade Out'', and '' Kill or Be Killed''. He has also worked on the DC Comics' series '' WildC.A.T.s'' and ''Hellblazer''. Early life Phillips grew up in the U.K. fascinated by American comics, particularly those published by Marvel Comics. As he got older, his influences included Jim Baikie, Simon Bisley, Jamie Hewlett, Duncan Fegredo, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave McKean, and Jaime Hernandez.Thomas, Ian“We Get to Do Whatever We Want!”: An Interview with Sean Phillips,"''The Comics Journal'' (Jan. 26, 2022). Career Phillips began his career in 1980 in British girls' comics such as ''Bunty'', '' Judy'' and ''Nikki'' while still at school. After graduating art college (Lowestoft Polytechnic) in 1988 he started working with John Smith on '' New Statesmen' ... [...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'', as well as its sequel, the farce ''For a Few Troubles More''. He later illustrated the series ''Carla Allison'' in ''Deadline''. He broke into American comics in 1993, drawing Ennis's run on DC Comics's '' The Demon'', followed by its spin-off, ''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 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 more outrageous dialect, sexual and toilet humour, published by Caliber in 1997, with a sequel, ''Dicks II'', from Avatar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Furman
Simon Christopher Francis Furman (born 22 March 1961) is a British people, British Script (comics), comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro's ''Transformers'' franchise, starting with writing Marvel Comics, Marvel's The Transformers (Marvel Comics), initial comic book to promote the toyline worldwide, as well as foundations for both Transformers: Generation One (Dreamwave), Dreamwave Production's and The Transformers (IDW Publishing), 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 (Marvel Comics), 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 lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Fegredo
Duncan Fegredo (; born 1964) is a People of the United Kingdom, 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 (Fleetway), Crisis'' for Fleetway before working on ''Kid Eternity'' at DC Comics with writer Grant Morrison. He then worked with writer Peter Milligan on ''Enigma (Vertigo), Enigma'', an eight-issue miniseries for DC's Vertigo Comics, Vertigo imprint. At ''2000 AD (comics), 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 Comics, Dark Horse's'' ''Hellboy'' series. Fegredo's six- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Coipel
Olivier Coipel (; November 7, 1969) is a French comic book artist, known for his work on books such as ''House of M'', ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' and ''Thor''. Career Olivier Coipel started as a movie animator, working as an assistant on ''Balto'' and then ''The Prince of Egypt'', then as a full animator at ''The Road to El Dorado''. Among his influences are 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, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov, and Steve McNiven, which according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, exhibited the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller." One of Coipel's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Churchill
Ian Churchill is a People of the United Kingdom, 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 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Braithwaite
Doug Braithwaite is a British comic book artist. Career Braithwaite started out working on British comics, like '' 2000 AD'' and '' A1'', but is best known for his Marvel Comics work on the ''Earth X'' sequels, ''Universe X'' and ''Paradise X'' (with Alex Ross and Jim Krueger), as well as for ''The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe'' and '' Punisher: MAX'' #13–18, with Garth Ennis. He had been exclusive at DC but in 2008 he announced that when that deal ended he would sign as an exclusive with Marvel for three years and his first project would be ''Secret Invasion: Thor'' with Matt Fraction. While at DC he worked with Ross and Krueger again on the twelve-issue limited series ''Justice''. In addition, he has illustrated issues of '' Ghost'' for Dark Horse Comics and ''Archer & Armstrong'', for Valiant Comics. In 2008 he illustrated a four issue run on ''The Brave and the Bold'' with David Hine. On 9 April 2011 Braithwaite was one of 62 comics creators who appeared at th ... [...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 first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Romita Jr
John Salvatore Romita (; born August 17, 1956), known professionally as John Romita Jr., is an American comics artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2010s. He is the son of artist John Romita Sr. Early life John Romita Jr. is 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 Prowler in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #78 (Nov. 1969). Romita Jr. began his career at Marvel UK, doing sketches for covers of reprints. His American debut was with a six-page story entitled "Chaos at the Coffee Bean!" in ''The Amazing Spider-Man Annual'' #11 (1977). Romita's early popularity began with his run on '' Iron Man'' with writer David Michelinie and artist Bob La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
