Today's Birthdays

one click shows all of today's celebrity birthdays

Browse All Birthdays

43,625    Actors
27,931    Actresses
4,867    Composers
7,058    Directors
842    Footballers
221    Racing drivers
925    Singers
9,111    Writers

Get FamousLikeMe on your website
One line of code gets FamousLikeMe on your website. Find out more.

Subscribe to Daily updates


Add to Google

privacy policy



Famous Like Me > Writer > C > Gene Colan

Profile of Gene Colan on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Gene Colan  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 1st September 1926
   
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Gene Colan (born September 1, 1926) is an American comic book illustrator who sometimes worked under the name Adam Austin.

Colan was born in the Bronx, New York City, and studied at the Art Students League. He served in the Philippines during World War II. After his return, he began working in comics in 1944, illustrating the science fiction adventure series Wings Comics. From 1946, he worked for both DC Comics (originally National Publications) and Marvel Comics (originally Timely Comics).

During the 1960s Silver Age of comic books, Colan illustrated several of Marvel's major characters including Dr. Strange, Captain America, and signature character Daredevil. Colan's long run on the Daredevil series continued into the 1970s, an era for which Colan illustrated the complete run of the acclaimed horror title Tomb of Dracula and most issues of writer Steve Gerber's cult-hit, Howard the Duck.

Colan's highly fluid figure drawing and extensive use of shadow was unusual among Silver Age comic artists and became more so as his career progressed. Though he usually worked as a penciller (Klaus Janson and Tom Palmer were his most frequent collaborators as inkers), he was the first mass-market comic artist to break from the penciller/inker/colorist assembly-line system by creating finished drawings in graphite and watercolor. Notable examples include the DC Comics miniseries Nathaniel Dusk (1984) and Nathaniel Dusk II (1985-86), and the feature "Ragamuffins" in the Eclipse Comics umbrella series Eclipse #3, 5, & 8 (1981-83). All these were written by frequent collaboratgor Don McGregor.

Indepedent-comics work includes the Eclipse black-and-white graphic novel Detectives, Inc.: A Terror Of Dying Dreams (1987), also written by McGregor, and reprinted in sepia tone as an Eclipse miniseries.

This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Gene Colan