Tom Grummett

Thomas "Tom" Grummett is a Canadian comic artist.

Life and work

Grummett, who lives in Saskatoon , in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan , began working as a full-time comic book artist in the 1980s. He mainly works as a pencil draftsman , while he usually leaves the ink revision of his sketches ("Inken") to other artists such as his long-term partner Doug Hazlewood or Joe Rubinstein .

Grummett's work focuses primarily on commissioned work for US publishers such as Marvel Comics and DC Comics , as well as WildStorm , which has now merged with DC .

Grummett became known especially through the author Karl Kesel , by him and his most frequent artistic partner, in 1993 in the book Adventures of Superman # 501. developed a modern variant of the character Superboy ("Kon-El"), one of the most commercially successful brands owned by DC. The Grummett-Kesel version, which the two of them further differentiated in a long-term series, is essentially the interpretation of the figure used by DC to this day.

For DC he designed, among others, the series Action Comics (with author David Michelinie ), Adventures of Superman (with Karl Kesel), Robin (with Chuck Dixon ), Superboy (also with Kesel) and The New Titans (with Marv Wolfman ). From 2005 to 2006, Grummett drew the series New Thunderbolts , written by Fabian Nicieza , for Marvel Comics . Gary Erskine did the ink drawings.