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Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad is an antihero/supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first version of the Suicide Squad debuted in ''The Brave and the Bold'' #25 (September 1959) and the second and modern version, created by John Ostrander, debuted in ''Legends (comics), Legends'' #3 (January 1987). Various incarnations of the Suicide Squad have existed throughout the years as depicted in several self-titled comic book series, from its origins in the Silver Age of Comic Books, Silver Age to its modern-day post-''Crisis on Infinite Earths, Crisis'' re-imagining, to the New 52 version and the current version that was introduced during DC Rebirth in 2016. Though the roster has changed considerably over the years, some of its best-known members of the Squad include Rick Flag, Katana (comics), Katana, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, and Harley Quinn. Background and creation The original Suicide Squad appeared in six issues of ''The Brave and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Comics
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, the first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its published stories are set in the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous List of DC Comics characters, culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash (DC Comics character), Flash; as well as famous fictional teams, including the Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Suicide Squad, and the Legion of Superheroes. The universe contains an assortment of well-known supervillains, such as Lex Luthor, the Joker (character), Joker, Darkseid, and the antihero Catwoman. The company has published non-DC Universe-related mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke McDonnell
Luke McDonnell (born July 19, 1959) is an American artist whose early career was spent specialising in comic books. Career Comic books Luke McDonnell began his career as a comics artist in 1980 and illustrated a wide variety of comics including long runs on ''Iron Man'', ''The Phantom'' and'' Suicide Squad''. He made his Marvel Comics debut with the story "Eclipse of Reason" in ''Star Trek'' #12 (March 1981). In 1983, McDonnell and writer Dennis O'Neil began a storyline in which the character James Rhodes replaced Tony Stark in the role of Iron Man. McDonnell moved to DC Comics in 1985 and became the regular artist on ''Justice League of America'' with issue #245 (Dec. 1985). He drew the title through its final storyline (#258–261) which was written by J. M. DeMatteis. McDonnell was one of the contributors to the '' DC Challenge'' limited series and then moved over to the ''Suicide Squad '' series written by John Ostrander. ''Suicide Squad'' #23 (Jan. 1989) written by Ostrande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kalisz
John Kalisz is an American comics artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. He has been recognized for his work with nominations for the Comics Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist Award in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. In August 1997, Kalisz worked on the official movie adaptation comic of Steel, which was released by DC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Shaquille O'neal Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal ( ; born March 6, 1972), commonly known as Shaq ( ), is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst on the television program ''Inside the NBA''. He is a and Center (basketball), center ... starred as Steel in the movie. References American comics artists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-comics-creator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Gafford
Carl Gafford (November 23, 1953–July 13, 2020) was a colorist (and occasional editor) who worked for several decades in the comics industry. He worked for a number of publishers during his career, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Topps Comics. Gafford was notable for his use of the "color hold" technique in his coloring work (where the black areas of the art are replaced with another color). Biography Early life and education Carl Gafford was a member of comics fandom as a teen, writing and drawing his own ditto machine fanzine ''Minotaur'' from 1968 to 1972, as well as contributing art and writing to other fanzines and the amateur press alliance CAPA-alpha ("K-a") beginning in December 1970. In , he created Blue Plaque Publications, the first minicomic co-op, a cooperative of minicomic creators that traded and promoted small press comics and fanzines, that exists to this day. Gafford had an itinerant path through higher education, attending Western Connecticu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Klein
Todd Klein (born January 28, 1951) is an American comic book letterer, logo designer, and occasional writer, primarily for DC Comics. Biography Early career Todd Klein broke into comics in the summer of 1977, hired by DC Comics as a staff production worker. This job entailed pasting together text pages (such as letter columns), putting logos, display lettering, and type on covers, and doing art and lettering corrections on comics pages. Other staffers included colorists Bob LeRose and Anthony Tollin, writer Bob Rozakis, inker Steve Mitchell, and letterer John Workman. Over the next months and years, Klein tried his hand at all those things, but found lettering suited him best. Workman helped Klein get started with the basic tools and techniques, and Klein studied the work of Gaspar Saladino, Workman, Ben Oda, and John Costanza; as well as Marvel Comics letterers Tom Orzechowski, Jim Novak, and Joe Rosen. Klein landed his first freelance lettering job in the fall of 1977, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Faucher
Wayne Faucher is an American comic book inker. He is known mostly for his ink work on the Batman family of comics for DC Comics and for Spider-Man titles for Marvel Comics. Career Raised in Rhode Island and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he worked for years as a graphic designer in New York City and Boston before setting his sights on working in comics. He started in the industry in 1995, with the DC Comics series Impulse. Since then, Faucher has worked on dozens of titles for a variety of publishers. Penciller, Pencillers with whom he is frequently paired include: Humberto Ramos, Alex Maleev, Mark Buckingham (comic book artist), Mark Buckingham, Dick Giordano, Mike Deodato, Chad Hardin, Alberto Ponticelli and others. Selected works DC Comics * Arqueiro Verde e Canário Negro (2007) * Impulse * ''Batman: Shadow of the Bat'' * Catwoman * ''Detective Comics'' * Wonder Woman * Countdown * Trinity * Titans * Legion * Mr. Terrific * Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandu Florea
Sandu Florea (; born 28 June 1946) is a Romanian-American comic book and comic strip Comic book creator, creator, also known as an inker and Illustration, book illustrator. A trained architect and a presence on the science fiction scene during the 1970s, he became a professional in the comics genre with albums such as ''Galbar'', and was allegedly the only artist to have obtained a steady income in this way during the Communist Romania, communist period. A prolific contributor to Romanian children's magazines, Florea had his activity curbed by Censorship in Communist Romania, communist censorship when he first publicized his intention of emigrating to the United States. He eventually left the country shortly after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, 1989 Revolution, and soon after began collaborating with Marvel Comics, Marvel, DC Comics and other leading enterprises in the field of comic book publishing. He became especially noted for his activities as an inker, with contributions on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Kesel
Karl Kesel (; born January 7, 1959) is an American comics writer and inker whose works have primarily been under contract for DC Comics. He is a member of Periscope Studio and is known for his collaborations with fellow artist Tom Grummett on '' The Adventures of Superman'', ''Superboy'', and '' Section Zero'', as well as the first ''Harley Quinn'' comic title. Biography DC Comics After a friend at college complimented his inking, Karl Kesel began submitting his portfolio to Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Kesel's first work for DC Comics appeared in '' New Talent Showcase'' #4 (April 1984). He soon became the inker on '' Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes'' — so soon, in fact, that he suspected that he was assigned ''New Talent Showcase'' #8 as a test run to see how well he jelled with ''Tales of the Legion'' penciller Terry Shoemaker. Kesel was discouraged that inks which looked smooth and clear on his original pages appeared clunky in the printed comics, and with guidance fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Leonardi
Rick Leonardi (born August 9, 1957) is an American comics artist who has worked on various series for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including ''Cloak and Dagger'', ''The Uncanny X-Men'', ''The New Mutants'', ''Spider-Man 2099'', ''Nightwing'', ''Batgirl'', '' Green Lantern Versus Aliens'' and ''Superman''. He has worked on feature film tie-in comics such as ''Star Wars: General Grievous'' and ''Superman Returns Prequel'' #3. Early life Rick Leonardi was born August 9, 1957 in Philadelphia, and grew up in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Leonardi's interest in becoming an artist was inspired by the work of Joe Kubert, which he discovered in the second grade when he read '' Star Spangled War Stories'' #139 (July 1968). Leonardi commented in a 2017 interview, "Top of page 8 is still one of the best-designed panels I've ever seen." Leonardi graduated from Dartmouth College in 1979, and started drawing for Marvel Comics the following year. Career Leonardi first interviewed with Marvel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Zircher
Patrick Zircher () is an American comic book artist and penciller. Career Zircher's early career as an illustrator began with production of several completed works for '' Villains and Vigilantes'', '' Champions'' and other pen-and-paper role-playing games, as well as work for independent comic book publishers. He illustrated a number of projects for Caliber Comics including ''Dragon Star II'', ''Jason and the Argonauts'' (under the Tome Press banner), and his own creator owned series, ''Samurai 7'' (released under Caliber's Gauntlet imprint). Following this he went on to work largely for Marvel Comics on titles including ''Iron Man'', '' Thunderbolts'' and ''New Warriors''. He also did a considerable amount of work for DC, primarily on ''Nightwing'' and on '' Shadowman'' for Valiant Comics. Bibliography DC Comics *''Action Comics'' #957–958, 963–964, 969–970, 973–974, 979–980, 984 (2016–2017) *''Birds of Prey'' #13 (along with Greg Land) (2000) *'' Darkstars'' #8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayton Henry
Clayton Henry is an American comic book artist, known mostly for his work for Marvel Comics. His first known works were providing the art on ''Nine Rings of Wu-Tang'' and ''Area 52'', and has since worked on such series as ''Exiles (comic book), Exiles'', ''Alpha Flight (comic book), Alpha Flight'', ''New X-Men (2004 series), New X-Men: Hellions'', ''X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula'', and currently ''Uncanny X-Men''. Early life Born in Mandeville, Jamaica, Henry moved to the U.S. when he was three. His father, an artist himself amazed Clayton with a picture of a car he saw him draw. He began drawing at 4 and at age 9 he was drawn into the world of comics with a copy of ''Uncanny X-Men'' #201. He attended art schools from 4th grade through 12th grade and much of college. Career After a brief stint in independent comics with the aforementioned Wu-Tang and ''Area 52 (comics), Area 52'' comics Henry spent his time making ends meet. After several rejection letters Clayton shopped hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Riggs
Robin Riggs is a British-born comic book artist. The majority of his published work has involved working as an inker for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Career Riggs' first professional comics work was as a result of winning the " Marvel Try-out Book" in the 1980s for lettering; prior to that, he had already been working as a graphic artist for several years. Early work consisted of inking a lot of the Marvel UK titles during their expansion into the American market, including both '' Genetix'' series His 2008 projects include providing the art for a five-issue "Sir Apropos of Nothing" story written by Peter David and published by IDW Publishing. Personal life Riggs is married to Elayne Riggs, who has appeared with her husband at conventions.David, Peter (19 May 2000)"Getting by with a little help from his friends…" ''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1383. Archived at peterdavid.net. 7 March 2000. Bibliography *''Captain Planet and the Planeteers'' #6 (inks, with author Pat Kelleher an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
