Leonard Kirk

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Leonard Kirk
Leonard Kirk at the 2008 New York Comic Convention.
Born	Canada
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	JSA, Agents of Atlas, Supergirl

Leonard Kirk is an American born comic book artist living in Canada. He has worked on such properties as Supergirl, JSA, Star Trek, Batman, and Witchblade. Currently Kirk is exclusively signed for Marvel Comics.^{[citation needed]}

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Kirk first broke into the comics field pencilling issue #5 of the Malibu Comics title Dinosaurs for Hire and issue #1 of Captain Canuck vol.2. He then went on to pencil Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comics for Malibu.

In 1995, he began working with Marvel, penciling the Ultragirl miniseries.

In 1997, he began a long association with DC Comics, beginning with a nearly 60 issue run on the Peter David written Supergirl series. Following that, he penciled the Dan Jolley written Bloodhound, which was canceled in under the year.

He penciled the Fred Van Lente written Scorpion story in the Marvel anthology title Amazing Fantasy. Following that, he illustrated the acclaimed^{[citation needed]} humorous miniseries, Freshmen, written by Seth Green and Hugh Sterbakov, for Top Cow.

He returned for a year to work at DC, filling in on Aquaman and doing the "One Year Later" storyline Face the Face that ran through Batman and Detective Comics.

Later in 2006, Kirk signed an exclusive deal with Marvel Comics,^{[citation needed]} his first project being a five issue Jeff Parker written Agents of Atlas miniseries, which included Wakandan-born S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Derek Thanaka from the Scorpion story he penciled in Amazing Fantasy. Marvel has proceeded to assign him to pencil Marvel Adventures: The Avengers (from issue #13 onwards), Spiderman Family, and a fill-in for the World War Hulk storyline in The Incredible Hulk #108.