Mike Esposito
Mike Esposito (born July 14, 1927 in New York City , † October 24, 2010 ) was an American comic artist .
Life and work
Esposito began working as a full-time comic book artist in the 1950s. He soon specialized in the work of the so-called Inkens , that is, the revision of pencil drawings by other artists with ink.
After Esposito's wish to start as an animator at the Disney studios in California was not fulfilled, he began to work in the comic industry. Between the 1950s and the 1980s, he was mainly active in this context for the two major publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics .
Esposito's most frequent partner in his more than thirty-year career was the artist Ross Andru , whom he met as a teenager during their school days together at the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. Together with Andru, Esposito not only designed hundreds of comic books, but also founded the company MikeRoss Publications, through which they self-published comics on the market. Together, Esposito and Andru visualized magazines from the series Wonder Woman , Flash and The Brave and the Bold for DC and X-Men and Spider-Man for Marvel. The collaboration between Esposito and Andru was later reflected, among other things, in a double biography entitled Partners For Life .
Other notable works by Esposito include inker jobs for the Metal Men , Suicide Squad , The Hulk and Star Spangled War Stories series . Other important draftsmen besides Andru, whose work Esposito inkte was, among others Jack Kirby and John Romita .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kevin Melrose: Comics AM | The comics. Internet in two minutes. cbr.com. October 25, 2010, accessed November 6, 2016.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Esposito, Mike |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 2010 |