Jamal Igle
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| Jamal Igle | |
 Jamal Igle at the 2008 New York Comic Convention. |
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| Birth name | Jamal Yaseem Igle |
| Born | July 19, 1972 Harlem, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Editor |
Jamal Yaseem Igle (born July 19, 1972 in Harlem, New York) is an American comic book artist, editor, art director and animation storyboard artist.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Igle was an aspiring actor until he was 15 years old. However, he continued to show an interest in drawing comics. He abandoned his acting career and devoted himself to becoming a comic book artist.
Igle attained his first job in comics at 17, as an intern at DC Comics while still attending the High School of Art and Design. After he left college, he worked as a junior art director at an ad agency and in a marketing company.
Jamal's first break as an artist was with a now defunct publisher called Majestic Entertainment in 1993. Though steady work was harder to obtain, eventually Jamal started working on a regular basis. He built his resume working for a number of small publishers for years until about 1999, when he left comics for a while to work at Sony Animation.
Igle spent several months as a Journeyman storyboard artist for several CGI animated series such as Max Steel and Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles.
It was during his time at Sony that he received a call from Bobbie Chase at Marvel Comics to work on New Warriors with Jay Faerber. He has been working in comics ever since.
[edit] Career
Jamal has worked in books ranging from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, the all-ages action miniseries Race Against Time as well as fill-in issues in mainstream titles such as Green Lantern, G.I.Joe, Martian Manhunter and Supergirl. With writer Jay Faerber has done several works: a four issue run on New Warriors and a Iron Fist/ Wolverine miniseries for Marvel Comics, and Venture, a short-lived creator-owned series for Image Comics. In mid-2006 he was the regular artist of Firestorm (DC Comics) ongoing series, since issue #8 (December 2004). In November of 2006, DC Comics announced that Igle would be taking over as series artist of Nightwing.
In addition Igle is an active volunteer with the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, as well as a guest lecturer on the subject of comics and animation.
Igle has worked on several projects outside of the United States including the Army of Angels Graphic novel for Humanoids Publishing/DC Comics and Perry Rhodan in Germany.
In December of 2005, Jamal signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics, which was publicly announced on January 10th, 2006. As part of the contract's announcement, DC Editor Steve Wacker described Jamal as a "triple threat," stating "Jamal has the best combination in an artist: he’s scary talented, super reliable, and one of the nicest guys in the business." In July of 2006, Jamal joined the staff of the Art Students League of New York.
[edit] Art Style
In an April 2000 interview, Jamal Igle has stated in the past that some of the influences on his work included Norman Rockwell, Drew Struzan,John Byrne, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Al Williamson,Dave Stevens and Steve Rude.[1]
For a time, Jamal's work went through a style shift towards a blockier style similar to that of Cully Hamner and Brian Stelfreeze of Gaijin Studios, but he has since adopted a more naturalistic approach.
[edit] Selected bibliography
Comics work includes
- Green Lantern Vol.3 #52 (1994). "Steve Carr and Jamal Igle and Darryl Banks" are credited as pencillers of the issue (source)
- Impulse #58 (2000). "Jamal Igle and Grey" are credited as pencillers of the main story (17 pgs). (source)
- Martian Manhunter #36 (2001). The series was cancelled with this last issue, drawn by Igle.
- Golden Age secret files (2001). Igle pencils a 2-page short Dr. Sivana story.
- Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War (2001). Credited as pencil artist, along with Cliff Chiang and Buzz. Citing Don MacPherson on The Fourth Rail: "Though three pencillers are listed as contributing to this comic book, most of the art comes from Cliff Chiang."
- Green Lantern Vol.3 #146, 157 & 174 (2002-2004)
- Green Lantern secret files #3 (2002). 22-page lead story.
- Green Lantern Corps #18 (2007).
- Famous first: Green Lantern / Green Lantern (2002)
- Supergirl #71 (2002)
- Big Book of Bad, Big Book of Grimm & Big book of Wild Women. Igle contributes to these three books in the "Big Book of ..." anthology series.
- Firestorm #8-10,12-21,23-32 (2004-2006).
- Nightwing # 129-131,133-134 (2007)
- Countdown Presents The Search for Ray Palmer: Crime Syndicate #1 (2007)
- Countdown to Final Crisis # 21,4 (2007-2008)
- Teen Titans # 52 (2007),# 55 (2008)
- Tangent:Superman's Reign# 2-6 (2008)
- New Warriors Vol. 2 #7-10 (2000). With writer Jay Faerber. The series was cancelled in issue #10.
- Grifter/Shi#2
- Tomoe/Witchblade: Fire Sermon
- Noble Causes #2 (2002). Short backup story.
- G.I.Joe #8 & 10
- Venture #1-3 (2001). Creator-owned series with writer Jay Faerber, that was cancelled by issue #4. Faeber said about the title (source) that "we had a lot of fun with the book, but sales were incredibly low, and we had to stop publication after the fourth issue (which only saw print because Jim Valentino pitched in and drew half the issue for us!)."
Crusade Entertainment
- Shi #8
- Shi: Kaidan #1
- Atomik Angels #1
- Tomoe/Witchblade: Fire Sermon
Dark Angel Productions
- Race against Time #1-3
- Blackjack: Blood and Honor Graphic novel
[edit] External links
- JamalIgle.com Jamal Igle official website.
- comic geek speakComic Geek Interview with Jamal Igle at the 2006 New York Comic-con
- comic geek speak Interview May 2006 With Jamal Igle
| Preceded by Karl Kerschl |
New Warriors artist 1999–2000 |
Succeeded by Skottie Young |
| Preceded by ChrisCross |
Firestorm artist 2004–2007 |
Succeeded by Ken Lashley |
| Preceded by Dan Jurgens |
Nightwing artist 2007–2007 |
Succeeded by Jon Bosco |
