Darwyn Cooke
Darwyn Cooke (born 1962 in Toronto , Canada , † May 14, 2016 ) was a Canadian comic book author , illustrator and animation artist.
Life and work
Cooke began working as a full-time comic book artist in the 1980s. His first published work appeared in the 1985 comic book New Talent Showcase # 19. For financial reasons Cooke was relegated to giving up his artistic ambitions at times in the second half of the 1980s and instead earning a living as a graphic and product designer. At the beginning of 1990, he finally took signs contracts again when he as a draftsman for the Animation Studios of the entertainment giant Warner Bros. began to work.
In the further course of the 1990s Cooke worked mainly as a storyboard artist for Warner Bros. cartoons such as Batman , Superman and Batman of the Future as well as for the series Men in Black: The series produced by Sony Animation .
In 2000 Cooke designed the graphic novel Batman: Ego published by DC Comics , a subsidiary of Warner Brothers . Following on from this work, Cooke began to take on other drawing jobs as a freelance artist for DC and other publishers. While he started a new Catwoman series for DC with author Ed Brubaker at the end of 2001 , he drew several issues of the series X-Force and Spider-Man's Tangled Web , as well as the one-shot Just Imagine for DC's competitor Marvel Comics … Stan Lee and the Wolverine / Doop miniseries .
In 2002 Cooke produced the graphic novel Selina's Big Score , for which he first worked not only as a draftsman but also as an author, a prequel for his and Brubaker's Catwoman series. This project was followed by the six-part miniseries DC: The New Frontier in 2004 and a story for series 52 (# 5) in 2005 . This story, which revolves around a case of the private detective Slam Bradley , earned him the Eisner Award , one of the most famous American comic prizes , in the Best Single Issue category .
In 2006 Cooke got the drawings for the so-called crossover comic Batman / Spirit , written by Jeph Loeb , which featured a clash between Bob Kane's famous night avenger Batman and Will Eisner's hero The Spirit . His work on this project proved to be so artistically and commercially popular that Cooke received his first Eisner Award , his first Harvey Award and - as Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist - his first Canadian Joe Shuster Award for his drawings . In total, Cooke received thirteen Eisner Awards, eight Harvey Awards and five Joe Shuster Awards. In addition, in 2006 he was engaged as an artist for the regular The Spirit series.
Cooke wrote the first six-part story for the 2007 series Superman Confidential .
2009 adapted the novel he The Hunter by Donald Westlake as Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter . 2010 was followed by The Outfi t, 2012 The Score and 2013. Slayground .
Individual evidence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cooke, Darwyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian comic book writer, illustrator and animation artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 2016 |