John McCrea

John McCrea (born 1966 in Belfast , Northern Ireland) is a British comic artist.

Life and work

McCrea, who himself cites John Byrne and Alan Davis as major artistic influences, began working as a professional comic book artist in the 1980s. After initially creating comic adaptations for television series and toys - such as BLAAM! or The Centurions - his drawings for the political series Troubled Souls in 1988 were his first critically acclaimed work. He continued this tendency with the comic Crisis , which was kept in a realistic style. Its sequel, the Farce For a Few Troubles More, marked McCrea's artistic swing towards a cartoon-like style of drawing. This development was confirmed with the comics about Carla Allison in the Deadline series .

In 1993 McCrea also began working for the US comic market. He drew the stories written by his compatriot Garth Ennis for the comic series The Demon , which were published by DC Comics . Also with Ennis, McCrea designed the Hitman series , published between 1996 and 2001 , which was characterized by a complex sign language in which McCrea combined satirical elements with action and the subtle characterization of the actors through drawings. The 34th edition of the series was accordingly honored with an Eisner Award . At the same time he created the controversial, verbally and graphically very provocative series Dicks for the publishing house Caliber , which was followed in 2002 by a sequel, Dicks II, which was published by Avatar.

Since the end of the Hitman series, McCrea has worked for publishers DC, Bongo Comics , Marvel, Dark Horse and 2000AD. He drew Judge Dredd for 2000AD, Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse , Simpson's Tree House of Terror for Bongo Bart , the Punisher for Marvel , the Hulk: Smash series and the Spider Man: Get Kraven miniseries , Wonder Woman , Teen Titans for DC Go and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight .

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SURNAME	McCrea, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belfast