Greg Land

Greg country (c. 1965) is an American comic book artist.

Life and work

Greg Land, who hails from the Midwestern United States, began to work for a company that had specialized in the production of accessories painter during his studies at Indiana State University.

In the early 1990s succeeded country with an American indie publishing a first engagement as a professional artist to receive. After he had worked there for several years at the Storm Quest series, gave it to Pat Garrahy, one of the senior editors of the greatest American Comiverlegers DC Comics, 1999 the job of the cover illustrator for the adventure series Birds of Prey. His work on this series eventually proved to be so popular that he, that took over the drawings for the "inside" of the booklets the actual stories. After several years of the Birds of Prey into the picture, moved to the country, also appearing at DC, Nightwing action series, which he visualized for several years as the successor of the artist Scott McDaniel.

For the publisher Crossgen took over the country in 2001 the signatories tasks for the fantasy series Sojourn, which he oversaw until 2004 and for which he recorded a total of 34 issues. After CorssGen had to cease its publishing activities, changed country to Marvel Comics. There, he worked first again as a cover artist, such as for the mini-series X -Men: The End, eventually took over but again the design of the booklet inside of series like Ultimate Fantastic Four and miniseries such as Black Widow: Homecoming or Ultimate Power.

Among the more significant comic authors with whom the country worked with in the past include, among others, has Jeph Loeb (Ultimate Power) and Chuck Dixon ( Birds of Prey, Nightwing ).

Controversies

Lands activity as a draftsman is controversial: while his fans praise the photorealism of his paintings in general and the classic beauty of on the paper set up by him figures in particular, to throw him his critics - such as the operators of the Internet project Deconstructing Greg country - to draw before, stereotyped, individualitätslose figures whose facial features and facial expressions would be practically not differ from each other.

As "proof" of this criticism the faces of female characters from a drawn from country X-Men history and subscribed by him Sojourn history for example, were superimposed to show that both figures apart from the hairstyle and their coloring are identical to each other.

In addition, you accused him even to have the facial features of famous film actors of his figures, such as actress Jessica Alba or the actor Hugh Jackman to have signed one on one, possibly technically integrated even by scanning programs in his pictures, what country rejects even decided.