Kerry Gammill
Kerry Lynn Gammill ( born April 26, 1954 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American illustrator, cartoonist, storyboard and film designer.
Life and work
Gammill began his career in 1978 as an illustrator of comic stories for the New York-based City Publisher Marvel Comics. There he was in the 1970s and 1980s to series such as Spider -Man, Indiana Jones, Captain America, X-Men and Fantastic Four. At the same time he was working for the TV station Channel 5 in Dallas for the late-night show The Museum of Horror.
From 1988 to 1994 he worked for the publisher DC Comics as a draftsman at various comic series about the comic book hero Superman, so to Adventures of Superman, Superman, Superman: Man of Steel and especially Action Comics. He operated mainly as a cover artist, that is, as signatories to the title images of the said comic books, while the design of the booklet inside was mostly concerned by other artists such as Bob McLeod or Jackson Guice.
In another recorded Gammill stories for the series Elvira 's House of Mystery, Hawk and Dove, New Titans and New Titans, the lyrics written by Roger Stern special edition Superman for Earth, as well as covers for the miniseries Power Girl (1988) and Supergirl (1993 /1994).
In 1996, Gammill from the comic book industry in the film industry, where he specialized in the creation of storyboards and conceptual design artist and as a creative consultant on the design of the set design. Among the films which he co-designed, among other things, the Ben Affleck movie Phantoms (1998 ) Species II (1998), Wrongfully Accused ( 1998, with Leslie Nielsen ) and Virus ( 1999 with Jamie Lee Curtis).
For the American television Gammill worked on the optical design of series such as The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1, Dream Catcher, Tremors - The Series and GI Joe: Valor vs. Venom. In this function he worked in the video game Area 51. As Art Director, he turned the independent film Creep Tales ( 2004). In 2002 he published the book Kerry Gammill 's Drawing Monsters and Heroes for Film and Comics has been published by Vanguard Productions.
More recently Gammill has worked as a designer of toys and DVD accessories.