Jon Bogdanove

Jonnathan Bogdanove (* 1958 ) is an American comic book artist and author. Bogdanove was best known as a longtime draftsman of the comic series Superman: Man of Steel and as co-creator of the comic character Steel and the accompanying comic series.

Life and work

In 1991 Bogdanove began drawing the Superman: Man of Steel comic series . His partner in designing this comic series about the most classic of all superheroes was the author Louise Simonson . Bogdanove drew almost without exception all issues of the "Man of Steel" series up to number # 87 in 1999 when he left the series, which he had most recently co-authored, to devote himself to other projects. Among the dozen of Superman stories he created between 1991 and 1999, a story from Man of Steel # 81 to 83 in which he and Simonson addressed the subject of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust found particular attention . Although there has been a lot of criticism that it was inappropriate to deal with such a topic in a comic book, especially in a superhero series like Superman, the story also met with positive echoes: For example, the department for the prosecution of war crimes in the US Department of Justice praised Bogdanove would have approached the problem in a more appropriate way than the film Schindler's List, for example .

In 1993 Bogdanove and Simonson created the superhero Steel , one of the first Afro-American comic heroes , whose eponymous series Bogdanove oversaw for several years.

Other series Bogdanove worked on were Power Pack , Incredible Hulk , X-Factor and Fantastic Four Versus The X-Men (1987). He designed the comic book Adventures In Reading: Amazing Spider-Man Battle Against Illiteracy for the US Department of Education .

Web links

• Jon Bogdanove in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• http://www.superman-through-the-ages.com/tales2/thesuperman/beyond.php