John Romita, Jr.

John Romita Jr. ( born August 17, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comic book artist who has become particularly for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2000s known. Its abbreviation is JRJR. He is the son of John Romita Sr..

Career

Initially Romita was known for his work in the early 1970s to the comic series Iron Man along with comic book writer David Michelinie and artist Bob Layton. In the early 1980s he began his work on The Amazing Spider -Man, along with the author Roger Stern, he designed the character of the Hobgoblin. From 1983 to 1986 he worked with writer Chris Claremont on the series Uncanny X -Men, which he obtained immense popularity, since the X -Men were a big phenomenon within the comic book industry at the time.

In the late '80s and early 1990s, he worked with the writer Ann Nocenti and Eisner Award winning by an inker Al Williamson on the series Daredevil.

Later, Romita collaborated with Frank Miller on a Daredevil story called The Man Without Fear, which is considered as a counterpart to Miller's Batman Year One adaptation. In the 1990s, Romita also still working on a number of other Marvel titles, among other things, Punisher: War Zone, the Cable mini-series, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man once again and the Punisher / Batman crossover.

In the 2000s, Romita again gained new fame through his second great graphic work ( with writer J. Michael Straczynski ) on the show The Amazing Spider -Man (the title, by his father through his drawings for it during the 1960s best known has become ). In addition, he was responsible for the Wolverine series (along with the writer Mark Millar ) for their thirty year anniversary. In 2005, his drawings are to be found in Black Panther, The Sentry and Ultimate Vision.

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• Born in 1956
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