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Art Portfolio

Contact Details

Hello, my name is Glenn Fabry and

I am an illustrator.

Previous clients include Atari, The Tatler, Infogrames, Paramount Pictures, and Marvel and DC Comics in the USA.

• Neverwhere

• Preacher

• Hellblazer

• Batman

• Slaine

• Daredevil

• Thor

Glenn Fabry www.glennfabry.co.uk

June 2008

In side this is sue:

slaine 2

Early work 3

Hellblazer 5

Graphic Novels 7

Games & cards 9

Preacher 11

Endless Nights 13

Other Projects 13

neverwhere 15

Anatomy Books 17

Figurines 17

authority 17

Work so far 18

Contact 20

Glenn Fabry Studios 116 Rodmell Avenue,

Saltdean, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 8PJ

United Kingdom

Tel / Fax: (+44) 01273 - 300845

glennfabrystudios @yahoo.co.uk

www.glennfabrystudios.co.uk

Award Winning Comic Art….

In 1984 I started work on 2000AD, Britain's flagship comic’s weekly, which then had a readership of upwards of 200,000 a week.

My main character was the Celtic barbarian ‘Slaine’ written by Pat Mills - I stayed with 2000AD for eight years, while also pursuing a freelance career which included television advertising, magazine covers and computer games covers.

I studied illustration at Richmond for four years and my first professional work was for punk rock group ‘The Stranglers’ when I left art college. I also has a few commissions for illustrations for magazines like Ms London while I did the rounds with my portfolio.

My First Professional Work

Slaine

Award Winning

Award winning comic art

From the mid eighties onwards I was producing mainly black and white comic strip line work on 2000AD characters such as Judge Dredd and Slaine. Then my painted work started getting more attention and I was commissioned for cover illustrations for various E-map and Fleetway publications such as Crisis and Revolver as well as freelance excursions

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Early Work

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into advertising, including fashion magazines & television.

I moved to Brighton in 1990, after some pre-production work for Paramount Pictures and in 1992 started painting the covert art for the DC Vertigo series ‘Hellblazer’ - recently filmed as ‘Constantine’ starring Keanu Reeves.

hellblazer

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Fore the next ten years I was primarily a cover artist for a variety of publications from both DC and Marvel comics in America and have worked on well know characters such as Spiderman, The Hulk, The X-Men, Batman, Judge Dredd, Daredevil, teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vampirella, the Joker, Tank Girl amongst very many others.

The vast majority of my work has been in in comic strips for the past 20 years, for which I've won numerous international awards Including an Eisner Award (equivalent to an Oscar in the comic biz) twice.

Most of my comic strip work has been collected in graphic novel form, and my cover art reprinted in books like ‘Vertigo

Graphic Novels

Visions’ and ‘The Art of Marvel Superheroes’.

I also worked in 2004 with film director Kevin Smith on ‘Daredevil - Bullseye’ for Marvel comics and also ‘Thor - Vikings’ for Marvel with Garth Ennis - also for Marvel.

My other graphic novels include:

• Judge Dredd - Batman - Judgment on Gotham

• Slaine the King

• Slaine Demon Killer

• Slaine Tomb of Terror

• The Authority: Kev by Garth Ennis

• Thor Vikings by Garth Ennis

• Neil Gaiman’s Endless Nights

• Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

All of these have been reprinted around the world in many different languages.

Award Winning


I have worked on 'Magic the Gathering' & World of Warcraft' card games and I've also painted covers for computer games including 'Desperados' and 'Dungeons and

Dragons - Heroes' for Atari. My specialty is hand drawn & hand painted illustrative work, concentrating on dynamic imaginative character and the human figure.

Games & Cards

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I also worked on the best selling Vertigo series 'Preacher', for which I supplied the painted covers. Preacher is currently in pre-production for HBO as a live action TV series.

Preacher

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My covers for Preacher have been collected in book form, and won me the first of my two Eisner Awards (an Eisner is the comic strip Oscar). This is probably the work that I am best known for in the United States. Created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, it’s a critically acclaimed highlight of the genre. ‘Preacher - Dead or Alive’ collects all my covers and features a written commentary by me and Garth Ennis. The collected Preacher editions ‘Gone to Texas’, ’Until the End of the World’, ‘Proud Americans’, ‘Salvation , War in the Sun’, All Hell’s A Coming’ and ‘Ancient History’ are available in bookstores worldwide.

Award Winning

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In 2005, I worked on the New York Times best Seller ‘Endless Nights’ by Neil Gaiman which featured a collection of artists working on his hugely successful ‘Sandman’ characters.

I won my second Eisner award for my part of this anthology.

This pretty much led on to me being asked to

illustrate Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere in 2005 for DC’s Vertigo Publications.

Endless Nights

Other Projects Howard the Duck’, ‘Birds of Prey’, ‘Global Frequency’ and ‘The Midnighter which appear in various collections.

I’m currently working on the ‘Greatest Hits’ graphic novel with David Tischman for Vertigo.

There have been a lot of cover illustrations for US comics and series of com-ics including ‘Spiderman - The Thousand’, ‘Outlaw Nation’, ‘Event Horizon’, ‘Gangland’, Swamp Thing’, ‘The Trenchcoat Brigade’ and ‘Spawn the Dark Ages’.

I’ve also drawn issues of

Award Winning


Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere’ has been a novel and a television series. After the success of ‘Endless Nights’ Vertigo were looking for a follow up and I was picked to supply the illustrations for this latest incarnation of his well loved story.

It’s adapted by Mike Carey.

It’s the largest body of work I’ve done on any single project, and I had to design the look of the characters and locations without upsetting Gaiman's loyal fan base. Suggested for Mature readers.

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Neverwhere

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I currently have two tutorial books out.

'Muscles in Motion - Figure Drawing for the Comic Book Artists, which is a printing of my sketch books and 'Dynamic Anatomy for the Fantasy Artist' for Quarto Publication.

Anatomy books

Authority & Kev

Hellblazer & Preacher Figurines Two popular characters from the Vertigo range of adult orientated comics.

This came from my cover work in these publications.

I was asked to design these - the sculptures are by William Paquet

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I returned to full time comic strip work in 2004 with the graphic novel ‘The Authority - Kev’ for Wildstorm comics, written by Garth Ennis.

It’s a black comedy take acclaimed superhero team ‘The Authority’ which has achieved some notoriety due to the idiosyncratic natures of it’s membership. It’s very rude and funny. Suggested, very much, for a mature readership.


Work So Far...

June

• The Green TV (in Working Klass Superhero #1 & 2, 1977 , 1980 by GF). Wrote and drew ‘JackinBlack’ for ‘Strangled’, official fanzine of the Stranglers ‘81 - 1986

• Slaine (by Pat

Mills) for 2000AD Time Killer (in 2000AD 411-412, 419-421, 427-428, 431, 30 Mar - 6 Apr 1985, 25 May - 8 Jun 1985, 20 Jul - 27 Jul 1985, 17 Aug 1985. Inks by Bryan Talbot #431). Tomb of Terror (in 2000AD 447 - 448, 458 - 460, 7 Dec - 14 Dec 1985, 22 Feb - 8 Mar 1986). The Devils Banquet (in 2000AD Sci-Fi Special Sum 1986). Slaine the King (in 2000AD 500-508, 517 - 519, 13 Dec 1986 - 7 Feb 87, 11 Apr - 25 Apr 87). The Killing Field (in 2000AD 582, 9 Jul 1988, by Angie Mills). Slaine the King (in 2000AD 589 - 591, 27 Aug - 10 Sep 1988). The High King (in 2000 Ad Yearbook 1992, Aug 1991). Demon Killer (in 2000AD 852-858, 11 Sep - 23 Oct 1993).Scatha (in News on Sunday 1 - 6, 8 26 Apr - 31 May 1987, 14 Jun 1987, by Pat Mills).

• Tharg’s Future

Shocks (in 2000AD 567, 26 Mar 1988, by Chris Smith). Portrait of the Artist as a Psychopathic bankrupt (Heartbreak Hotel 3, Apr/May 1998, by GF).

• Judge Dredd The Sage (in 2000AD 577,4 Jun ‘88, by Wag-ner/Grant). The Power of the Gods (in 2000AD 600, 12 Nov ‘88, by A. Grant). Talkback (in 2000AD 740, 20 Jul ‘91, by Ennis, re-printed in Rock Power, Jan ‘92).

• A1 Bricktop (in A1#1-6a, May 1989 - Mar 1992, by GF & Chris Smith). A Day in the Life (in Crisis 39, Mar

1990, by Igor Goldkind).

• Computer

Games Covers Incredible Hulk, Spider-man and Avengers, Speedball 2, Arcanum, Desperados, Dungeons & Dragons - Heroes - and many more.

• Deadline

Magazine Loveboy loves Lovegirl (in Deadline, June 1990, by B Ewins). Waltz (in Re-volver 3, Sep 1990, by Tony Salmons). Prisoner of Justice (in Crisis 52, Nov 1990, by Alan Mitchell). One I Love (in Revolver Romance Spe-cial, Mar 1991, by G Ennis). Along for the Ride (in A1 #1, Oct ‘92, by Igor Goldkind).

• Hellblazer

Covers 52- 88 Nov 91 to 1996

• Preacher

Covers 1 - 66 1994 - 2000 plus specials, graphic novels & posters

• Various Covers 2000AD, Deadline, Crisis, A1, Vengeance of Bane, Lobo; Portrait of a Victim, Vertigo Jam, Lobo’s Back (graphic novel), Aliens/Predator (Dark Horse Comics), The Human Torch, Vampirella, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spectre, Batman, Tank Girl, Cauldron,

Wolverine, Gen 13, Spawn: The Dark Ages (with L. Sharp), Weird War Tales, Gangland, Scarab (with T Luke) and many more.

• Collected

Works Batman/Judge Dredd: Die Laugh-ing part one by John Wagner/Alan Grant (with Jim Murray & Jason Brashill). Slaine the King by Pat Mills (Titan Books) Also appears in The Col-lected Slaine by Pat Mills with Mike McMahon (Titan Books) Slaine Demon Killer by Pat Mills with Dermot Power (Titan Books). Vertigo Visions (with loads of other guys) by Vertigo Books Endless Nights (with other artists) - New York Times Best seller

• Other Clients Manumission (Ibiza night Club), off-licence windows, caricatures, the Dept of Environment, Paramount Pictures

• 2003 - 2008

work Dead or Alive collected Preacher covers by me & Garth (DC Vertigo), Slaine the King (by Pat Mills Titan Books), Thor - Vikings (Marvel Comics Graphic Novel by Garth Ennis), The Authority Kev (Wildstorm) Endless Nights (one of seven chapters by DC Vertigo by Neil Gaiman), Monogram (My sketchbook in print),

Muscles in Motion (my sketchbook in print with more text), Web of Spiderman (Marvel comics), Outlaw Nation by Jamie Delano (Vertigo Howard the Duck (Marvel Comics), Dynamic Anatomy for Fantasy Artists (some of my writing and drawing plus a load of other people), Howard the Duck (by Steve Gerber, one chapter), Global Frequency (by Warren Ellis), 3 covers for Sal Abbinanti, 8 Magic the Gathering cards, 5 cov-ers for the Magnificent Kevin by Garth Ennis & Carlos Esquerra for Wildstorm : chapter three of the Kev: Authority saga, Event Hori-zon:Alternative cover Mamtor Publishing, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman & Mike Carey for Vertigo.

• Currently

working on; ‘Greatest Hits’ for DC Vertigo, Lot#13 with Steve Niles for Wildstorm, Simpsons Treehouse of Horror


Professional shrink by Mac were children's book illustrations for the first in a series called ‘The Professionals’ by Mac © Toasted Coconut Media.

There are twelve character designs for the first in a series of seven novels, used as character headings.. These lovable types include naked Seaweed man and an insane art teacher. The novel has now been released to rave reviews in the USA.

This is the cover for one of Garth Ennis's Virgin comics retake on the beloved 60’s super astronaut Dan dare. It sold very well I believe.

I also painted covers for John Constantine Hellblazer for the first time in 12 years.

In the Hellblazer line I also provided covers for a six issue limited series called the knowledge featuring the exploits of Constantine's good buddy Chas the taxi driver, available now.

2007 Update

Anna smudge

Award Winning


The Rugby World Cup was staged in 2007.

These are three illustrations for ‘The Times’ newspapers reviews of the games used as billboard hoardings the length and breadth of the country.

The first time in my life I have seen my work printed that big. They feature autopsy tables versions of international rugby team mascots including a cockerel for France and a dragon for Wales.

Rugby world cup

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From the mid eighties onwards I was producing mainly black and white comic strip line work on 2000AD characters such as Judge Dredd and Slaine. Then my painted work started getting more attention and I was commissioned for cover illustrations for various E-map and Fleetway publications such as Crisis and Revolver as well as freelance

2008 update I am currently finishing Greatest Hits with David Tischman and Gary Erskin for DC Comics Vertigo. It is actually the first superhero line of books that Vertigo has ever produced. The pitch is what of the Beatles and the Stones in the 1960’s had superhero counterparts. I have supplied covers and interior pages and it is due out September 2008.

I am also working on a project with Steve ‘30 Days of Night’ Niles called Lot #13 with painted covers and all interior art. It is a co-creation creator owned ghost story with enough shocking visuals to keep Fangoria fans happy. It should be out within the next six months for Wildstorm productions.

I am currently looking

for work in the

illustrative field and I

hope that you would be

interested in considering

my work for use in your

projects.

My contact

numbers are

above.

All the best,

Glenn Fabry

June

2008

Thank you for your time...

Glenn Fabry Studios 116 Rodmell Avenue, Saltdean

Brighton, East Sussex BN2 8PJ

United Kingdom

Tel / Fax: (+44) 01273 - 300845

[email protected]

www.glennfabrystudios.co.uk

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