Darwyn Cooke

Darwyn Cooke (born 1962 in Toronto, Canada ) is a Canadian comic book writer, illustrator and animation artist.

Life and work

Cooke began working as a professional cartoonist in the 1980s. His first published work appeared in 1985 in the comic book New Talent Showcase # 19 For financial reasons, Cooke was in the second half of the 1980s partly dependent abandon his artistic ambitions and his livelihood instead to earn as a graphic and product designer. Finally, in the early 1990s, he took over again sign contracts when he began working as a draftsman for the animation studios of the entertainment giant Warner Brothers.

In the further course of the 1990 Cooke operated mainly as a storyboard illustrator for " Warner Brothers" animated series like Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond, as well as the produced by Sony Animation Series Men in Black: The Series.

2000 designed the Cooke from DC Comics, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers, published graphic novel Batman: Ego. To build upon this work Cooke began more characters jobs as a freelance artist for DC and other publishers to accept. While he called together with author Ed Brubaker end of 2001 for DC, a new Catwoman series to life, he drew for DC's competitor Marvel Comics many editions of the series X-Force and Spider- Man's Tangled Web, as well as the one-shot Imagine. .. Stan Lee and the miniseries Wolverine / Doop.

2002 Cooke produced with the graphic novel, Selina 's Big Score, for which he was not only working as an illustrator, but also as an author for the first time, a prequel for his and Brubaker's Catwoman series. This project he left in 2004, the six -part mini-series DC: The New Frontier and 2005 follow a story for Series 52 ( # 5). This story revolves around a case of private detective Slam Bradley, earned him the award of the Eisner Award, one of the most famous American comic book prices, in the category "Best Single Issue " field.

2006 Cooke got the drawings for the written by Jeph Loeb so-called " crossover comic" Batman / Spirit, which had a clash of Bob Kane's famous nocturnal avenger Batman and Will Eisner's The Spirit heroes to content. His work on this project proved to be an artistically and commercially so popular that Cooke in 2005 for his drawings with the Eisner Award and - was awarded the Canadian Joe Shuster Award - as "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist ". In addition, he was a 2006 commitment as an artist for the regular The Spirit series one.

Cooke's most recent work is a six-part story for the series launched in 2007 Superman Confidential.

  • Cartoonist
  • Comic author
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1962
  • Man
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