Glenn Fabry Studios Work So Far 18 116 Rodmell Avenue, Contact 20 Saltdean, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 8PJ United Kingdom
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Award Winning Comic Art…. www.glennfabry.co.uk June Glenn Fabry 2008 • Neverwhere Art Portfolio • Preacher Hello, my name is Glenn Fabry and • Hellblazer I am an illustrator. • Batman Previous clients include Atari, The Tatler, • Slaine Infogrames, Paramount Pictures, and Marvel and DC Comics in the USA. • Daredevil • Thor In side this issue: slaine 2 Early work 3 Hellblazer 5 Graphic Novels 7 Games & cards 9 Preacher 11 Endless Nights 13 Other Projects 13 neverwhere 15 Anatomy Books 17 Figurines 17 Contact Details authority 17 Glenn Fabry Studios Work so far 18 116 Rodmell Avenue, Contact 20 Saltdean, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 8PJ United Kingdom Tel / Fax: (+44) 01273 - 300845 glennfabrystudios @yahoo.co.uk www.glennfabrystudios.co.uk AwardAward Winning winning comic artPage 2 My First Professional Work I studied illustration at Richmond for four years and my first professional work was for punk rock group ‘The Stranglers’ when I left art college. I also has a few commissions for illustrations for magazines like Ms London while I did the rounds with my portfolio. Slaine In 1984 I started work on 2000AD, Britain's flagship comic’s weekly, which then had a readership of upwards of 200,000 a week. My main character was the Celtic barbarian ‘Slaine’ written by Pat Mills - I stayed with 2000AD for eight years, while also pursuing a freelance career which included television advertising, magazine covers and computer games covers. GlennJune Fabry Studios - www.glennfabry.co.ukPage 3 Early Work From the mid eighties onwards I was producing mainly black and white comic strip line work on 2000AD characters such as Judge Dredd and Slaine. Then my painted work started getting more attention and I was commissioned for cover illustrations for various E-map and Fleetway publications such as Crisis and Revolver as well as freelance excursions into advertising, including fashion magazines & television. This story can fit 75-125 words. Selecting pictures or graphics is an important part of adding content to your newsletter. Think about your article and ask yourself if the picture supports or enhances the message you’re trying to convey. Avoid selecting im- ages that appear to be out of context. Microsoft Publisher includes thousands of clip art images from which you can choose and import into your newsletter. There are also several tools you can use to draw shapes and symbols. AwardAward Winning winning comic artPage 5 hellblazer I moved to Brighton in 1990, after some pre-production work for Paramount Pictures and in 1992 started painting the covert art for the DC Vertigo series ‘Hellblazer’ - recently filmed as ‘Constantine’ starring Keanu Reeves. AwardAward Winning winning comic artPage 7 Graphic Novels Fore the next ten years I was primarily a cover artist for a variety of publications from both DC and Marvel comics in America and have worked on well know characters such as Spiderman, The Hulk, The X-Men, Batman, Judge Dredd, Daredevil, teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vampirella, the Joker, Tank Girl amongst very many others. The vast majority of my work has been in in comic strips for the past 20 years, for which I've won numerous international awards Including an Eisner Award (equivalent to an Oscar in the comic biz) twice. Most of my comic strip work has been collected in graphic novel form, and my cover art reprinted in books like ‘Vertigo Visions’ and ‘The Art of Marvel Superheroes’. I also worked in 2004 with film director Kevin Smith on ‘Daredevil - Bullseye’ for Marvel comics and also ‘Thor - Vikings’ for Marvel with Garth Ennis - also for Marvel. My other graphic novels include: • Judge Dredd - Batman - Judgment on Gotham • Slaine the King • Slaine Demon Killer • Slaine Tomb of Terror • The Authority: Kev by Garth Ennis • Thor Vikings by Garth Ennis • Neil Gaiman’s Endless Nights • Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. All of these have been reprinted around the world in many different languages. GlennJune Fabry Studios - www.glennfabry.co.ukPage 9 Games & Cards I have worked on 'Magic the Gathering' & World of Warcraft' card games and I've also painted covers for computer games including 'Desperados' and 'Dungeons and Dragons - Heroes' for Atari. My specialty is hand drawn & hand painted illustrative work, concentrating on dynamic imaginative character and the human figure. AwardAward Winning winning comic artPage 11 Preacher I also worked on the best selling Vertigo series 'Preacher', for which I supplied the painted covers. Preacher is currently in pre-production for HBO as a live action TV series. My covers for Preacher have been collected inInside Stor y Headline book form, and won me the first of my two Eisner Awards (an Eisner is the comic strip Oscar). This is probably the work that I am best known for in the United States. “To catch the reader's attention, place an Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, interesting sentence or quote from the story here.” it’s a critically acclaimed highlight of the genre. ‘Preacher - Dead or Alive’ collects all my covers and features a written commentary by me and Garth Ennis. The collected Preacher editions ‘Gone to Texas’, ’Until the End of the World’, ‘Proud Americans’, ‘Salvation , War in the Sun’, All Hell’s A Coming’ and ‘Ancient History’ are available in bookstores worldwide. Caption de- scribing pic- ture or graphic. AwardAward Winning winning comic artPage 13 Endless Nights In 2005, I worked on the New York Times best Seller ‘Endless Nights’ by Neil Gaiman which featured a illustrate Neil Gaiman's collection of artists Neverwhere in 2005 for working on his hugely DC’s Vertigo Publications. successful ‘Sandman’ characters. I won my second Eisner award for my part of this anthology. This pretty much led on to me being asked to Other Projects There have been a lot of Howard the Duck’, ‘Birds cover illustrations for US of Prey’, ‘Global comics and series of com- Frequency’ and ‘The ics including ‘Spiderman - Midnighter which appear The Thousand’, ‘Outlaw in various collections. Nation’, ‘Event Horizon’, ‘Gangland’, Swamp I’m currently working on Thing’, ‘The the ‘Greatest Hits’ Trenchcoat Brigade’ and graphic novel with David ‘Spawn the Dark Ages’. Tischman for Vertigo. I’ve also drawn issues of GlennJune Fabry Studios - www.glennfabry.co.ukPage 15 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere’ has been a novel and a television series. After the success of ‘Endless Nights’ Vertigo were looking for a follow up and I was picked to supply the illustrations for this latest incarnation of his well loved story. It’s adapted by Mike Carey. It’s the largest body of work I’ve done on any single project, and I had to design the look of the characters and locations without upsetting Gaiman's loyal fan base. Suggested for Mature readers. This story can fit 75-125 words. Selecting pictures or graphics is an im- portant part of adding content to your newsletter. Think about your article and ask yourself if the picture supports or enhances the message you’re trying to convey. Avoid selecting images that appear to be out of context. Microsoft Publisher includes thousands GlennJune Fabry Studios - www.glennfabry.co.ukPage 17 Anatomy books I currently have two tutorial books out. 'Muscles in Motion - Figure Drawing for the Comic Book Artists, which is a printing of my sketch books and 'Dynamic Anatomy for the Fantasy Artist' for Quarto Publication. Hellblazer & Preacher Figurines Two popular characters from the Vertigo range of adult orientated comics. This came from my cover work in these publications. I was asked to design these - the sculptures are by William Paquet I returned to full time Authority & Kev comic strip work in 2004 with the graphic novel ‘The Authority - Kev’ for Wildstorm comics, written by Garth Ennis. It’s a black comedy take acclaimed superhero team ‘The Authority’ which has achieved some notoriety due to the idiosyncratic natures of it’s membership. It’s very rude and funny. Suggested, very much, for a mature readership. GlennJune Fabry Studios - www.glennfabry.co.ukPage 18 Wolverine, Gen 13, Work So Far... Spawn: The Dark Ages (with L. Sharp), Weird • The Green TV (in Working 1990, by Igor Goldkind). War Tales, Gangland, Klass Superhero #1 & 2, • Computer Scarab (with T Luke) and 1977 , 1980 by GF). Games Covers many more. Wrote and drew Incredible Hulk, Spider- • Collected ‘JackinBlack’ for man and Avengers, ‘Strangled’, official fanzine Works Batman/ Speedball 2, Arcanum, of the Stranglers ‘81 - Judge Dredd: Die Laugh- Desperados, Dungeons & 1986 ing part one by John Dragons - Heroes - and Wagner/Alan Grant • Slaine (by Pat many more. (with Jim Murray & Jason Mills) for • Deadline Brashill). Slaine the King 2000AD Magazine Loveboy by Pat Mills (Titan Books) Also appears in The Col- Time Killer (in 2000AD loves Lovegirl (in lected Slaine by Pat Mills 411-412, 419-421, 427- Deadline, June 1990, by 428, 431, 30 Mar - 6 Apr with Mike McMahon B Ewins). Waltz (in Re- Muscles in Motion (my 1985, 25 May - 8 Jun (Titan Books) Slaine volver 3, Sep 1990, by sketchbook in print with more 1985, 20 Jul - 27 Jul 1985, Demon Killer by Pat Mills Tony Salmons). Prisoner text), Web of Spiderman 17 Aug 1985. Inks by with Dermot Power (Titan of Justice (in Crisis 52, (Marvel comics), Outlaw Bryan Talbot #431). Tomb Books). Vertigo Visions Nov 1990, by Alan Nation by Jamie Delano of Terror (in 2000AD 447 - (with loads of other guys) Mitchell). One I Love (in (Vertigo Howard the Duck 448, 458 - 460, 7 Dec - 14 by Vertigo Books Endless Revolver Romance Spe- (Marvel Comics), Dynamic Dec 1985, 22 Feb - 8 Mar Nights (with other artists) cial, Mar 1991, by G Anatomy for Fantasy Artists 1986).