Alan Davis

Alan Davis ( born June 16, 1956) is a British cartoonist and author.

Life and work

Davis began in the late 1970s to work as a professional comic artist, having previously worked as a lay artist for various fanzines English. His first published work, the comic strip " The Crusader ," finally appeared in the Comiczeischrift Frantic Magazine.

His artistic breakthrough finally saw Davis with the series "Captain Britain", which appeared in the series The Mighty World Of Marvel (# 7-16). Later it came to Neuabdrucken as Captain britain Monthly # 1-14. To Alan Moore, who took over the job for Captain Britain author, Davis does not only tie a long and close professional relationship, but also close personal friendships. Together with Moore Davis developed the series "DR" and " Quinch " were published in the British magazine 2000AD. Also there appeared " Harry Twenty on the High Rock " (# 287-307 ).

1985 Davis began, orders for U.S. publishers to take: His first " American labor " here was the commitment as a regular illustrator for the Mike W. Barr, written by series Batman and the Outsiders (# 22-36 ), which he of the successor Jim Aparo perceived. The joint work with Barr Batman proved to be so popular, that two artists in 1986 with the design of the main series Batman Detective Comics (# 569-575 ) have been designated. Davis finally left the series in 1987 due to creative differences with the editor of the series and was in the middle of the four-part story " Batman: Year Two " is replaced by the artist Todd McFarlane.

That same year, Davis started for DCs competitor Marvel Comics to work: In the following years he draw, mostly written by author Chris Claremont, stories for the new series Mutants (# 2-3) and Uncanny X -Men ( # 213, 215; Annual # 11). Furthermore, called Davis, also with Claremont, the Excalibur series to life. Davis drew at the issues # 1-24 and # 42, his drawings in this project were it revised by the Tuschern Paul Neary and Mark Farmer.

In the 1990s, Davis recorded the mini-series JLA: The Nail (1998) and the one-shot Batman: Full Circle (1991) for DC, as well as various editions of the superhero classic The Avengers (# 38-43, 63), and the two X -Men series X -Men ( # 85-99, Annual 1999) and Uncanny X -Men ( # 360-380 ). With Clandestine Davis created in 1994 as a writer and artist for the first time a series that was entirely his own work.

2002 Davis drew for Marvel the Comicdaption of the movie Spiderman, he also recorded in 2002/2003 a six-part mini-series about the character Killraven ago, which a further run on Uncanny X -Men ( # 444-447, 450-451, 455-459, 462 -463 ), as well as the 2006 to 2007 published a six-part mini-series Fantastic Four: the End followed. For DC he created at this time the mini-series Superboy 's Legion (2001 # 1-2) and JLA: Another Nail ( 2004; # 1-3). In 2008, Davis has announced a resumption of its work on Clandestine.

  • Cartoonist
  • Briton
  • Born in 1956
  • Man
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