Geof Darrow
Geof Darrow (born October 21, 1955 in Cedar Rapids , Iowa ) is an American comic artist .
Darrow's best-known works are the artistic draft for the design of the action film trilogy Matrix and the comic band The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot , based on which a cartoon series was created.
Darrow's elaborate style is characterized (in addition to a weakness for depictions of violence) by a penchant for design from the 1950s and an astonishing variety of details, which often also prevent him from meeting deadlines on time.
Robots have been the subject of his works several times. In Hard Boiled , after a rampage, the robot Nixon is dragged back to the corporate headquarters of the Willeford Company at great expense, reprogrammed and released again into his sham life as an insurance agent. But in his next fall, Nixon gets confused again, learns of his true identity and the hopes that the other robots put in his fighting power for the purpose of liberation. Nixon starts a one-man war against Willeford. In 1996 Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot was released , a tribute to Japanese monster films and the comics of the 50s, 60s and 70s. An experiment in Japan creates a monster against which the military is powerless. Japan alarms the super weapon "Rusty", a child-shaped nuclear-powered robot - which fails. Japan then asks the US for help, which sends the (ultimately successful) all-purpose robot "The Big Guy".
Works
- La Cité Feu (1984) with Moebius ; Reproduction as City of Fire
- Bourbon Thret (1986)
- Hard Boiled with Frank Miller (1990)
- Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (1996)
- Doc Frankenstein (2004)
- Shaolin Cowboy (2005)
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| SURNAME | Darrow, Geof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cedar Rapids , Iowa |