Paul Gulacy

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Paul Gulacy (born August 15, 1953 in Youngstown , Ohio ) is an American comic artist .

Life and work

Gulacy began working as a full-time comic book artist in the 1970s. After drawing martial arts comics such as Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu for Marvel Comics in the 1970s , Gulacy took on more engagements for science fiction and superhero titles in the 1980s, including those of DC Comics published traditional series about the gloomy detective and "Avengers of the Night" Batman .

His most frequent artistic partner was the journalist and author Doug Moench , whom Gulacy had met while working on Shang-Chi . For example, Gulacy illustrated large parts of Moench's first run on the Batman series (1983–1986). A particularly interesting from a German perspective fruit of the collaboration of Moench and Gulacy who also privately close ties to each other knüpften was, in a criminal case a two-part Batman story from 1986 to the "Dark Knight" in the former West German capital Bonn verschlägt whose The actual appearance of Gulacy's drawings is of course only partially reproduced.

Other works that were created in collaboration with Moench were the five-part Batman: Prey published in 1991 for the anthology series Legends of the Dark Knight , the 1996 crossover comic Batman Predator II , in which the superhero meets the eponymous monster of the Predator film series , and in the 2000s the miniseries Batman: Outlaws and the experimental graphic fantasy novel Green Lantern: Dragon Lord , as well as a 2002 reinterpretation of their old Shang Chi stories.

Other notable works by Gulacy are the miniseries Star Wars: Crimson Empire , published by Dark Horse, Abre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species for Eclipse Enterprises , as well as Slash Maraud and Six From Sirius , as well as a comic novel about the patriotic superhero Captain America.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Paul Gulacy. In: comicbookdb.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2017 ; accessed on August 7, 2018 .