Doug Mahnke
Doug Mahnke | |
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Born |
Douglas Mahnke Minnesota |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
Notable works |
Batman Black Adam: The Dark Age Final Crisis Green Lantern, vol. 4 JLA, vol. 3 |
Douglas "Doug" Mahnke (pronounced MAN-key) is an American comic book artist and penciller.
Biography
Mahnke's first prominent work was for The Mask, and he has since worked for DC Comics on JLA, Batman with writer Judd Winick, and Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein with Grant Morrison. Mahnke's work on Batman included the controversial story detailing how the previously deceased second Robin, Jason Todd, was alive and actively working against Batman's interests as the Red Hood.[1] Mahnke also worked on the critically acclaimed prestige one-shot Batman: The Man Who Laughs with writer Ed Brubaker.
His work also includes titles such as Major Bummer, Superman: The Man of Steel, Team Zero and Justice League Elite. He was the original artist for the Dark Horse Comics title X, a run inked by Jimmy Palmiotti, as well as being the cover artist for King Tiger/Motorhead, a two-issue series set in the same universe as X. In 2005, with comic book inker Tom Nguyen, Mahnke produced two comic book art instructional DVDs. In 2006, he took over the art for Stormwatch P.H.D. for Wildstorm Comics. His work in 2007 included the DC mini, Black Adam: The Dark Age written by Peter Tomasi, detailing Black Adam's mourning over his wife Isis and regaining his powers. In 2008, he reunited with Tomasi to pencil an issue of Nightwing for the writer.
Mahnke was an important collaborator with writer Grant Morrison on DC's event series Final Crisis, pencilling the Requiem one-shot and the two-issue Superman Beyond 3D tie-in. Mahnke also pencilled the final pages of the main series' 6th issue featuring the "death" of Batman, and replaced artist J. G. Jones entirely on the series finale issue #7 over concerns of Jones' speed.[2]
Starting in July 2009, Mahnke became the ongoing artist for DC's Green Lantern with writer Geoff Johns, right at the beginning of the Blackest Night storyline.[3][4]
Bibliography
Comics work (interior pencil art) includes:
Dark Horse
- Aliens: Stronghold, miniseries, #1-4 (1994)
- Dark Horse Presents #25-29 (1988–89)
- The Mask #1-4 (1991)
- The Mask Returns #1-4 (1992–93)
- The Mask Strikes Back #1-5 (1995)
- Mayhem (The Mask): #1-4 (1989)
- Walter: Campaign of Terror #1-4 (1994)
- X #1-5, 9 (1994)
DC
- Action Comics #775 ("What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?," story, along with Lee Bermejo) (2001)
- Batman #635-639, 641, 645, 647-648 (2005–06)
- Batman: The Man Who Laughs, graphic novel, #1 (2005)
- Black Adam: The Dark Age, miniseries, #1-6 (2007–08)
- Countdown to Final Crisis #3, 8 (2008)
- Final Crisis #6 (along with J. G. Jones and Carlos Pacheco), #7 (full art) (2009)
- Final Crisis: Requiem #1 (2008)
- Final Crisis: Superman Beyond, miniseries, #1-2 (2008–09)
- Green Lantern, vol. 4, #43-48, 50-62, 64-67 (2009–11)
- Green Lantern, vol. 5, #1-20 (2011–13)
- JLA #61-68, 70, 72, 74-75, 78-79, 84-90, 100; Secret Files 2004 (2002–04)
- JLA/Cyberforce (2005)
- Justice League Elite #1-12 (2004–05)
- Nightwing #151 (2009)
- DC Comics Presents: Flash (one-shot, DC Comics, 2004)
- Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein, miniseries, #1-4 (2006)
- Gen¹³ #38 (1999)
- Hitman/Lobo: That Stupid Bastich! (2000)
- Justice League Elite #1-12 (2004–05)
- Lobo/Mask, miniseries, #1-2 (1997)
- Major Bummer #1-15 (1997–98)
- Martian Manhunter #24 (2000)
- Masks: Too Hot for TV! (2004)
- Nightwing #151 (along with Shawn Moll) (2009)
- Superman: Lex 2000 (5-pages only) (2001)
- Stormwatch P.H.D. #1-4, 6-7 (2007)
- Superman and Batman: World's Funnest (among other artists) (2000)
- Superman: The Man of Steel #87-89, 91, 93, 95-98, 100, 102-105, 107-108, 110-111, 114-118 (1999–2001)
- Team Zero, miniseries, #1-6 (2006)
- World's Finest: Our Worlds at War (5-pages only) (2001)
- Worldstorm #1 (2006)
Other publishers
- Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #26 (Marvel, 1994)
Covers only
- Dark Horse Presents #49, 64, 134 (Dark Horse, 1991–1998)
- Dr. Giggles #1-2 (Dark Horse, 1992)
- Comics' Greatest World: Arcadia #4 (Dark Horse, 1993)
- Comics' Greatest World: Vortex #1 (Dark Horse, 1993)
- Out of the Vortex #1 (Dark Horse, 1993)
- Barb Wire: Ace of Spades #3-4 (Dark Horse, 1996)
- King Tiger & Motorhead #1-2 (Dark Horse, 1996)
- Randy Bowen's Decapitator #1 (Dark Horse, 1998)
- The Mask: Toys in the Attic #1-4 (Dark Horse, 1998)
- Superman: The Man of Steel #99, 101 (DC Comics, 2000)
- Batman #573 (DC Comics, 2000)
- Superman #158 (DC Comics, 2000)
- Adventures of Superman #580, 629 (DC Comics, 2000–2004)
- Action Comics #573 (DC Comics, 2000)
- JLA #69, 71, 73, 76, 80-83, 90-93 (DC Comics, 2002–2004)
- Outsiders #18-19, 21-23 (DC Comics, 2005)
- Stormwatch P.H.D. #5 (Wildstorm, 2007)
- Number of the Beast #1 (Wildstorm, 2008)
- Nightwing #144 (DC Comics, 2008)
- JLA: Classified #39 (DC Comics, 2008)
- Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #3 (DC Comics, 2009)
- Blackest Night #8 (DC Comics, 2009)
- inFamous #1-2 (DC Comics, 2011)
- Flashpoint: Frankenstein & The Creatures of the Unknown #1-3 (DC Comics, 2011)
- Green Lantern Corps v2 #1 (DC Comics, 2011)
- DC Universe Online: Legends #16-17 (DC Comics, 2011–2012)
- Green Lantern v5 #6 (DC Comics, 2012)
Notes
- ↑ Batman: Under the Hood Volumes 1 and 2
- ↑ J.G. Jones apologizes for inability to finish Final Crisis
- ↑ Doug Mahnke Named New Green Lantern Artist, Newsarama, March 18, 2009
- ↑ Mahnke Business - Talking with the New Green Lantern Artist, Newsarama, March 31, 2009
References
- Doug Mahnke at the Grand Comics Database
- Doug Mahnke at the Comic Book DB
- PLuGHiTz Live! An interview with Doug Mahnke
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