In 2015 he was appointed the UK’s first ‘comics laureate’ to champion the use of graphic novels in promoting literacy.ĭave Gibbons is one of Britain’s most respected comic books artists, with a diverse and prolific career stretching back almost forty years. 2006), with art by John Higgins a Kamandi serial for Wednesday Comics with Ryan Sook in 2009 and Tales of the Sinestro Corps, also in 2009.
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Gibbons’ most recent complete works are a black and white graphic novel, The Originals (2005), a futuristic treatment of the Mods and Rockers wars of the 1960s and ongoing comic work, including the Albion spin-off Thunderbolt Jaxon (April–Sept.
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He is best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen (1986-7) now one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time, and for his collaborations with Frank Miller on Give Me Liberty (1990) After leaving 2000AD, Gibbons became the lead artist on Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly, drawing the main comic strip for most of the issues, and was hired in 1982 to draw Green Lantern for the American DC imprint. He broke into British comics by working on horror and action titles for both DC Thomson and IPC during the late 1970s, and he joined ‘2000 AD’ as an Art Director. See also: Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future.Gibbons is a graphic novels writer and illustrator, born in London in 1949. He has also returned to the ongoing Green Lantern series from time to time. His most notable work of the twenty-first century is the underappreciated black-and-white Alternate History Graphic Novel The Originals (graph 2004), which he wrote and drew. Gibbons and Miller returned to the universe of this series several more times over the following two decades, and the entire series was collected in 2010 as The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the 21st Century (graph coll 2010).Īlso in the 1990s Gibbons began to establish himself as a comics writer with a Superman/Batman team-up (1991), a Batman vs Predator comic book (1992) and World's Finest (1993), all for DC. Gibbons's next major project was Give Me Liberty (graph 1990), written by Frank Miller, a satirical tale of American Dystopias. Arguably his greatest achievement, also written by Moore, has been the phenomenally successful Watchmen (12-vol series 1986-1987 graph 1987 with additional material 1988) this Alternate-History superhero story, rich in semiotics, won a special category for Best Other Forms in the 1988 Hugo Awards (see Hugo for discussion of this category). Gibbons drew a number of Doctor Who episodes for the UK division of Marvel Comics, and in 1981 began a long association with the US publisher DC Comics, drawing The Creeper, 12 issues of Green Lantern and a Superman tale called "For the Man Who Has Everything" (1985 Superman Annual #11), written by Alan Moore. Gibbons was one of the initial team of artists on 2000 AD, drawing Harlem Heroes and Robusters and co-creating Rogue Trooper with writer Gerry Finley-Day. Further strips with an sf flavour followed until, in 1975, he began work on the Nigerian superhero Powerman, his monthly 16pp episodes alternating with those by Brian Bolland to produce a fortnightly publication schedule.
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He turned professional in 1973, drawing The Wriggling Wrecker for the D C Thompson comic Wizard. Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, he trained as a surveyor and began his artistic career providing Illustrations and strips for fanzines. Working name of prolific, award-winning UK Comic-strip artist David Chester Gibbons (1949- ) using a bold, firm line style, he specializes in the Superhero genre.
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