Walt Simonson
Walter " Walt " Simonson ( born September 2, 1946) is an American comic book writer and signatory.
Life and work
After studying geology at Amherst College Simonson began in the late 1960s to be trained at the Rhode Iceland School of Design for academic draftsman. His thesis ( 1973), which comes in either black -and-white space story "The Star Slammers ," was in this case as so successful that they by the organizers of the World Science Fiction Convention in Washington DC was used as a promotional comic. Topic and scenario of Star Slammers grabbed Simonson later two more times: once in a graphic novel, which was published by Epic Comics, and in the 1990s in a first at Malibu Comics ( Parts 1 - 4) and then by Dark Horse Comics ( part 5) appeared miniseries. That same year, Simonson received the prestigious Shazam Award in the category "Best New Artist " awarded.
In the further course of the 70 years Simonson operated on the one hand as an illustrator for the book publisher Harry N. Abrams, for whom he illustrated, among other things, an output from Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit, and secondly as a draftsman for the great American comic publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics. At DC Simonson designed first war stories. His artistic breakthrough he finally saw the three Shazam Awards in the category " Best Short Story " excellent series " Manhunter ", the traditional fabric of crime fiction - combined with motifs of the Far Eastern martial arts and philosophy - the agent on a secret mission. The Manhunter stories that drew Simonson and co-wrote with author Archie Goodwin, were first published as a backup series in the series Detective Comics, but later experienced numerous reprints in the form of bound anthologies.
Further work, which handed in Simonson in the 1970s for DC, were drawings for series Metal Men and for some of Steve Englehart's Batman stories of Detective Comics series.
After Simonson 1979 - again in collaboration with Goodwin - had taken over the comic adaptation of Ridley Scott's sci- fi classic Alien, he moved in the early 1980s to Marvel Comics. There he lay in the 1980s before much acclaimed stories for the series The Mighty Thor and X - Factor, which is still regarded as high points of the respective series. Artistic partner was there sometimes his future wife, Louise Simonson. A decisive turn in his artistic process are the stories of Thor and X-Factor is particularly also because Simonson first appeared there on a regular basis as an author of the visualized him stories in appearance.
In the 1990s, followed by work on the Marvel series Fantastic Four. From 2000 to 2002, released by the supervised Simonson DC science fiction series Orion the Fourth World mythology, the monumental attempt the cosmos of great artistic model of Simonson's Jack Kirby developed a complete mythological system modeled after the naturally grown Greco-Roman or replicate Norse mythology artificially listened.
This was followed by work on the series Wonder Woman (2003) and Hawkgirl (2006). His artistic partners were the artist Jerry Ordway or Howard Chaykin.
2002, with Simonson Will Eisner, Mike Mignola and other panel discussions before the book, a nonfiction book with instructions for drawing imitation of movements in comics and cartoons.