Shawn Martinbrough
Shawn Martinbrough is an American comic book artist .
Life and work
Martinbrough began working as a full-time comic book artist in the 1990s. He works both as an actual draftsman, who creates comic book pages with a pencil, as well as an ink draftsman or inker, who reworks his own pencil drawings or the pencil drawings of others with ink.
The series on which Martinbrough worked in the 1990s include The Creeper (1998–1999; # 1–11, 1,000,000), for which he designed the inside of the magazine and the title pages as a draftsman, and Challengers of the Unknown (1997–1998; # 1–4, 6–8, 11–17 complete; # 5 and # 10 only cover). While he was in charge of Creeper as a pencil draftsman and had his drawings revised by Sal Buscema , he worked on Challengers as an ink pen for the work of Jean Paul Leon. The author with whom Martinbrough collaborated in both cases was Len Kaminski .
Martinbrough's best-known work finally followed in 2000 when he took over the drawings for the traditional series Detective Comics . In his almost two-year partnership with the crime writer Greg Rucka , he told a detective story about the character of the nocturnal avenger Batman , which was based on the aesthetics, the themes and the narrative method of the film noir of the 1940s: Martinbrough complemented the less action-heavy and Instead, Rucka's investigative stories are more thought-provoking about the themes and narrative atmospheric drawings. These were deliberately designed to create a minimalist imagery with little detail, which is used to create a mood and convey the feelings of the characters, dispensing with large panoramic sequences, flourishes, hatching or other stylistic volts, on hard black and white contrasts and an unconventional, eccentric bichrome paint scheme left.
Martinbrough's later work includes the drawings for the Scott Beatty comic book Green Arrow # 33 and the booklets Nightforce (by Marv Wolfman ), Manhunter # 15 (partially) and # 22 (cover only). In addition, Martinbrough developed new designs together with Scott McDaniel in 1999/2000 for the fictional location of the Batman stories, the east coast metropolis of Gotham City ( Batman: Gotham City Secret Files # 1, 2000).
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| SURNAME | Martinbrough, Shawn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |