Marshall Rogers

Marshall Rogers ( born January 22 in 1950 and † 25 March 2007) was an American comic book artist.

Life and work

Rogers initially trained as an architectural draftsman before he started in the early 1970s to become active as a professional cartoonist. Characteristic for Rogers style of drawing was mainly his realistic depictions of characters and backgrounds, who - bereft of cartoon-like distortion and exaggeration - that tried to rise above the represented fictional contents at least visually the reality as close as possible.

First attention was him here because of his joint work with Chris Claremont on the series Daughters of the Dragon granted, in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, one held in black and white graphic magazine that mainly presented stories of Far Eastern martial arts and Eastern philosophy published been.

His artistic breakthrough came Rogers with the Batman storyline Darl Apparitions in 1977 in the series Detective Comics (# 471-476 ) appeared. His partners in this project were the author Steve Englehart and Pens Terry Austin. Since then, the Strange Apparitions that apply among critics and fans alike as one of the definitive interpretations of Batman substance, repeatedly reprinted, among other anthology and as a miniseries under the title Shadow of Batman. Rogers contribution to Strange Apparitions is the one in the lovingly detailed and densely atmospheric, the artistic possibilities of light and shadow exploiting ligand sent to see the design drawings, as well as in the optical overhaul of some of the figures. So Rogers renewed the layout of the Batman opponent Hugo Strange, Clayface ( Preston Payne ) and Deadshot fundamentally. In particular, the latter turned out after being finalized by Rogers to be so popular that he could be put as the main character at the center of its own publications.

2005 Englehart and Rogers knüpften again on the success of Strange Apparitions, as they the six-part miniseries Batman: Dark Detective vorlegten who again took up some old storylines and led to the end.

For Marvel Comics Rogers worked among other things on the series Spiderman, GI Joe and Silver Surfer.

For the publisher Eclipse Comics, he worked on series such as Coyote and Capt. Quick and the Foozle. Rogers died in 2007 of a heart attack.

Bibliography

Work for DC Comics

  • Batman Family # 11-13 (1977)
  • Batman: Dark Detective # 1-6 ( 2005)
  • Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight # 132-136 (2000)
  • Detective Comics # 466-468, 471-479, 481 ( 1976-1979 )
  • Green Lantern # 187 (1985)
  • Green Lantern: Evil 's Might # 1-3 ( 2002)
  • House of Mystery # 254, 274, 277 ( 1977, 1979, 1980)
  • Justice League Europe # 20-22 (1990-1991)
  • Mister Miracle: (1st series) # 19-22 (1977-1978 )
  • Mister Miracle: (3rd series) # 5-6 ( 1996)
  • Mystery In Space # 111 (1980)
  • Real Worlds: Batman ( 2000)
  • Secret Origins # 6 (1986 )
  • Superman # 400 (1984)
  • Superman Family # 182, 194 (1977, 1979)
  • The Shadow: # 7 ( 1988)
  • Unexpected # 191 (1979)
  • Weird War Tales # 51-52 (1977)
  • World's Finest Comics # 259 (1979)

Working for Eclipse Comics

  • Eclipse Magazine ( Coyote ) # 1-8 (1981-1983 )
  • Eclipse Monthly ( Cap'N Quick) # 1-4 ( 1983-1984)
  • Scorpio Rose # 1-2 ( 1983)

Work for Marvel Comics

  • Excalibur # 10-11 (1989)
  • GI Joe # 61,75,77,79,81,82,84,86
  • Silver Surfer # 1-10, 12, 21 ( 1987-1989)
  • Spider- Man # 27-28 (1992)
  • Cartoonist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1950
  • Died in 2007
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