José Luis García-López (born 1948) is a Spanish-Argentine comic book artist who works in the United States of America, mostly for DC Comics. He has most recently penciled an arc in Batman Confidential, inked by Kevin Nowlan.^[1]

[edit] Biography

José Luis García-López was born on March 26, 1948 in Spain, but lived subsequently in Argentina. Drawing inspiration from the works of such classic American artists as Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon), Harold Foster (Tarzan and Prince Valiant) and Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon) as well as José Luis Salinas and Alberto Breccia, during the 1960s, he worked for Charlton Comics. In 1974 he moved to New York, where he met DC Comics editor Joe Orlando. His first known DC - and Superman - credit was June 1975's "Nightmare In Gold" back-up in Action Comics #448, where he inked the pencils of artist Dick Dillin. Soon after, he was inking the legendary Superman artwork of Curt Swan, before graduating to full pencils on a back-up story (written by E. Nelson Bridwell in Detective Comics #452 (Oct 1975).

Other notable works include Atari Force, Cinder and Ashe, Road to Perdition, Deadman, New Teen Titans and various DC superheroes. His work on Twilight has been praised, receiving an Eisner Award nomination^[2] and comic critic Timothy Callahan (author of Grant Morrison: The Early Years) has suggested "Garcia-Lopez was never able to create such a vivid comic book world as he did in Twilight" and that "his penciling and inking in Twilight is gorgeous. Gritty, sometimes grim, but always gorgeous."^[3]

Recent work includes JLA: Classified with Gail Simone.

He has also produced a large amount of promotional artwork and covers, as well as interior art. Even today the promotional artwork he produced in the late 80s is used on merchandise from coffee mugs to bed sheets.

[edit] Bibliography

Cover of Wonder Woman vol. 2, #129 (Jan, 1998).

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interior pencil art includes:

[edit] DC Comics

• Action Comics (Phantom Stranger) #623, 641
• Adventure Comics (Vigilante) #442; (Deadman) #462-463, 465-466
• All-New Collectors´ Edition C-54 (Superman vs. Wonder Woman) (tabloid size)
• Atari Force (vol. 2) #1-3, 7-8, 9-12
• Batman #272, 336-337, 353
• Batman Confidential #26-28
• Batman Family #3 (Robin & Batgirl team-up)
• Brave and the Bold #164, 171
• Cinder and Ashe #1-4 (miniseries)
• DC Comics Presents #1-4, 17, 20, 24, 31, 41 (Superman team-ups)
• DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy #1-4 (miniseries)
• DC Special Series #11 (Kid Flash), 27 (Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk) (tabloid format)
• Deadman #1-4 (miniseries)
• Detective Comics (Batman) #454, 458-459; (Hawkman) #452, 454-455; (Elongated Man) #500
• Dr. Strangefate (one-shot) (Amalgam Comics)
• Hercules Unbound #1-6
• JLA: Classified #16-21
• Joker #4
• Jonah Hex #1-4, 10, 32, 73
• Secret Origins (Phantom Stranger) #10
• Showcase 94 (New Gods) #1
• Superman (Superman) #301-302, 307-310, 347, (Mr. Mxyzptlk) #351; Superman, Inc (Elseworlds, one-shot); Superman: Kal (Elseworlds, one-shot)
• Superman (vol. 2) #104-105
• Teen Titans (vol. 3) #7-11
• Twilight #1-3 (miniseries)
• Wonder Woman (vol. 2) Annual #1 (among other artists)
• World´s Finest Comics (Superman and Batman) #244, 255, 258

[edit] Other editors

• Road to Perdition: On the Road (pencils, with Max Allan Collins, 296 pages, Paradox Press, December 2004, ISBN 1401203574, Titan Books, May 2005, ISBN 1845760239^[4]) collects:
  • On the Road to Perdition Book 1: Oasis (with inks by Josef Rubinstein, 96 pages, Paradox Press, May 2003, ISBN 1401200680, Titan Books, June 2003, ISBN 1840236892)
  • On the Road to Perdition Book 2: Sanctuary (with inks by Steve Lieber, 96 pages, Paradox Press, December 2003, ISBN 1401201733, Titan Books, March 2004, ISBN 1840237961)
  • On the Road to Perdition Book 3: Detour (with inks by Steve Lieber, 96 pages, Paradox Press, July 2004, ISBN 1401201741, Titan Books, October 2004, ISBN 1840239425)

[edit] Awards

1992: Nominated for "Best Artist" Eisner Award, for Twilight^[2] 1997: Nominated for "Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team" Eisner Award, with Kevin Nowlan, for Doctor Strangefate^[5]

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Superman por José Luis García-López
• Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez Original Artwork
• Commercial art by José Luis García-López
• José Luis García-López Checklist