Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966 ) is an American comic book artist , author and illustrator . Her best-known works are the characters for Neil Gaiman's Sandman and her own Scary Godmother series. She also worked on Swamp Thing , Wonder Woman and for stage, film and television productions.
Life
Thompson grew up in Forest Park, Illinois . She attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago , from which she graduated in 1987 with a diploma in illustration and watercolor . Thompson also studied improvisational theater at the Players Workshop and The Second City Training Center in Chicago and performed with the Cleveland Improv Troupe for four years .
After initially working for smaller publishers such as Comico and First Comics , she was one of the first women to be entrusted by DC Comics with the drawings for the Wonder Woman series. For the Sandman comics, Thompson illustrated the story arc The Sandman - Brief Lives (Issues 41-49) and the short story "The Parliament of Rooks" (separate issue 40) in The Sandman - Fables and Reflections . Since then, she has written and drawn several stories using the characters from the Sandman comics, such as the manga- style Death: At Death's Door (one of DC Comics' best-selling books in 2003) and The Little Endless Storybook , a kid-friendly version of the The Endless comic series . In 2005, Thompson wrote and illustrated the Dead Boy Detectives , a short story based on two minor characters from the Sandman comic book The Sandman - Season of Mists .
Thompson also created the costumes for WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan .
With Scary Godmother , Thompson created her own comic book series, which was first published by Sirius Entertainment and then by Dark Horse Comics . The books were the template for two CGI- animated TV specials in which Thompson had a creative say: Scary Godmother Halloween Spooktacular , which was shown abroad in 2003 before it was broadcast on Cartoon Network in 2004, and Scary Godmother 2: The Revenge of Jimmy in 2005 .
For her work, Thompson took herself as a model for some characters, the best known being the original Scary Godmother , but she was also a model for other comic artists. She was the model for protagonists from The Magic Flute , the Story Hothouse from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and other works by Philip Craig Russell as well as for Alex Ross's character Duela Dent in Kingdom Come .
The 2005 documentary Ringers: Lord of the Fans about The Lord of the Rings fan base contains an extended interview with Thompson.
Thompson is married to comic book writer Brian Azzarello .
Awards
Thompson won the Eisner Award several times , including 2001 as "Best painter" for Scary Godmother, 2004 as "Best Painter / Multimedia Artist (interior art)" for her work on The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings , and in 2005 for "Best Short Story" for Unfamiliar (from The Dark Horse Book of the Dead ) with Evan Dorkin. In 2011, the National Cartoonist Society voted her the best comic book artist for Beasts of Burden .
- National Cartoonists Society Award Beasts of Burden 2011
- Eisner Award: Best Painter / Multimedia Artist (interior art) "A Dog and His Boy" The Dark Horse Book of Monsters (etc.) 2007
- Eisner Award: Best Short Story, "Unfamiliar" The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson 2005
- Eisner Award: Best Painter / Multimedia Artist (interior art) "Stray" The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings 2004
- Eisner Award: Best Painter / Multimedia Scary Godmother (interior art) 2001
- Eisner Award: Best Humor Publication Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror (group award ) 2000
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comics
- Comico
- The Elementals 1987
- Fathom 1987
- Illustrated classics : The Scarlet Letter 1989
- The Chronicles of Corum 1989
- Wonder Woman 1990-91
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Sandman (with Neil Gaiman ) 1991–93:
- "The Parliament of Rooks" in Fables and Reflections
- Letter Lives
- Black Orchid 1993
- The Invisibles 1993, 1995, 1997
- Swamp Thing 1994
- Books of Magic 1996
- Seekers into the Mystery 1996
- Finals 1999
- The Little Endless Storybook 2001
- Death: At Death's Door 2002-2003
- Dead Boy Detectives 2005
- Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall : "Fair Division"
- Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook 2011
- Spider-Man : Shadows and Light
- X-Men Unlimited: Dazzler - Beyond the Music
- The X-Files: Afterflight
- The Badger: Shattered Mirror
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The Dark Horse Book of :
- Hauntings : "Stray"
- Witchcraft : "Unfamiliar Story"
- The Dead : "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"
- Monsters : "A Dog and His Boy"
- Beasts of Burden four-part mini-series, Dark Horse Comics, 2009
- Sirius Entertainment
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Scary Godmother books:
- Scary Godmother 1997
- The Revenge of Jimmy 1998
- The Mystery Date 1999
- The Boo Flu 2000
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Scary Godmother Comics:
- Scary Godmother: My Bloody Valentine 1998
- Scary Godmother Holiday Spooktacular 1998
- Scary Godmother Activity book 2000
- Scary Godmother: Wild About Harry 2000
- Scary Godmother: Ghoul's Out for Summer 2000-2001
- Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror 2000
- Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror 2002
- Caliber Comics
- The Bandyman 1999
- Goosebumps Graphix: Terror Trips - One Day at HorrorLand
Children's Books : HarperCollins Children's Books
- Magic Trixie 2008
- Magic Trixie Sleeps Over 2008
- Magic Trixie and the Dragon 2009
- The Curse of the Royal Ruby: A Rinnah Two Feathers Mystery
- The Secret of Dead Man's Mine: A Rinnah Two Feathers Mystery
- Mick Foley ’s Halloween Hijinx
- Tales from Wrescal Lane
Plays
- Scary Godmother 2001 Adaptation / Co-Writer, Art Director, Set Designer, Athenaeum Theater in Chicago with Runamuck Productions
Movie
- Meet Me There as "Aunt Lindsay", 2014 Greenless Studios
Scary Godmother Films
With mainframe entertainment:
- Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktacular
- Scary Godmother: The Revenge Of Jimmy
Web links
- Jill Thompson in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Literature by and about Jill Thompson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jill Thompson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold, Andrew D. (February 16, 2004). "Drawing In the Gals; Move over, guys. Graphics for girls are the hot new genre in Japanese comics". Time . P. 97
- ↑ http://crimespreemag.com/jill-thompson-at-crimespree-booth-at-chicago-comic-con/
- ↑ Luis Waters: Jill Thompson dresses on "American Dragon" . December 13, 2011. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1327932176/the-scary-godmother-doll
- ↑ http://www.nycgraphicnovelists.com/2012/01/getting-scary-cheery-and-chatty-with.html
- ↑ http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/kc1.html ( Memento from October 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379473/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
- ^ Price, Matthew. (July 30, 2004). "'Endless Nights' wins Eisner Awards". The Oklahoman . P. 11D
- ^ Price, Matthew. (July 29, 2005). "Eisner awards honor comic book excellence". The Oklahoman . P. 13D
- ↑ Gold, Mike. "National Cartoonist Society Winners Announced" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ComicMix, May 29, 2011
- ↑ http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/430/jill-thompson-receives-national-cartoonists-societ
- ↑ http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eisner07.php
- ↑ http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eisner05.php
- ↑ http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eisner04.php
- ↑ http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eisner00.php
- ↑ Shaun Manning: Behind the "Beasts of Burden" HC . Comic Book Resources. June 25, 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Thompson, Jill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1966 |