Dave Gibbons
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Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949) is a British writer and artist of comics.
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Biography
IPC Comics
Gibbons broke into British comics by working on horror and action titles for both DC Thomson and IPC. When 2000 AD was set up, Gibbons was brought in as an Art Director. He also drew one of the original strips in Prog1, Harlem Heroes, as well as the occasional Future Shock. After the first year he began illustrating Dan Dare, a cherished project for Gibbons who had been a fan of the original series.
He was also known, by sight but not by name, to readers of the short lived IPC title Tornado. Much as 2000 AD was “edited” by the alien Tharg, Tornado was “edited” by a superhero, Big E, who also worked on the magazine in his alter-ego, Percy Pilbeam. These characters appeared in photos within the comic, and both Big E and Pilbeam were portrayed by Gibbons for the entire 22 issue run of Tornado before it was subsumed into 2000 AD.
[edit] Doctor Who
After leaving 2000 AD, Gibbons became the lead artist on Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly, drawing the main comic strip for most of the issues from #1 until #69.
The Doctor Who Storybook 2007 (released Christmas 2006) features a story called “Untitled” which includes the name Gibbons in a list of great artists of Earth history.
DC Comics: the 1980s
Gibbons was one of the British comic talents identified by Len Wein in 1982 and was hired to draw Green Lantern for DC.
He is best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen, now one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time. Gibbon’s work in Watchmen is notable for its regular grid of nine panels on a page as well as its intense narrative and symbolic density (some symbolic background elements were suggested by Moore, others were created by Gibbons).
Recent work
His recent projects include the DC Comics six-issue limited series The Rann/Thanagar War (which ties into the recently released seven-issue Infinite Crisis limited series) and Green Lantern Corps: Recharge. Gibbons also provides the cover artwork for Albion, the Wildstorm six-issue limited series plotted by Alan Moore and written by his daughter Leah and her husband. Gibbons also wrote an Albion spin-off Thunderbolt Jaxon, with art by John Higgins.
More recently Gibbons is doing covers for Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza’s run on Action Comics issues #841–843. He’s also writing Green Lantern Corps, which is currently a part of the Sinestro Corps storyarc, inspired by a Green Lantern story written by Alan Moore in the 1980s.
