Mike Manley (artist)

Michael " Mike" Manley (c. 1961 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American comic book artist. Manley has as an illustrator ( pen and ink drawings) comic series like Batman, Quasar, Captain America, Marvel Universe and The Power of Shazam! looked after.

Life and work

Manley made ​​a name as a draftsman in 1991 when he created the cartoon character Darkhawk in common with Danny Fingeroth and Tom DeFalco, whose series he accompanied a number of years as a draftsman. Special popularity reached Darkhawk not least because of Manley powerful drawing style and his ability to increase the expressive power of his own drawings by dynamic ink backing yet.

The success of this project made ​​Denny O'Neil, the director of Batman editors of the DC - publishers to Manley attentive, who offered him the successorship of Jim Aparo as master draftsman of the traditional comic series Batman, Manley took in 1993. The first Batman comic that he had designed the Jubilee edition Batman # 500 that sold more than three million copies of the best selling comic books one at all. As a result, Manley operated somewhat, until he retired about a year as a signatory of the Batman series, was written all the time by Doug Moench with issue # 515 as a draftsman in favor of the expressionist artist Kelley Jones.

In 1995, the company Manley Action Planet Inc., a small publishing house for the publication of private projects, such as its creation Monster Man. In addition, Manley worked as a storyboard artist and designer of television series such as Apy Groove, Spawn, One Saturday Morning, Clerks: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond. For the latter he received (together with some colleagues ) an Emmy Award. Currently working Manley, who lives in Philadelphia, for the Disney corporation.

• Cartoonist
• Americans
• Born in the 20th century
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