Declan Shalvey

Declan Shalvey is an Irish comic book artist. He made his name with his first comic Hero Killers, that won an Eagle Award, before going on to work on a number of Irish comics, as well as getting work on American comic books most notably Thunderbolts.

Career

Shalvey made his debut with the superhero comic Hero Killers, written by Andy Winter, which won an Eagle Award for "Favourite Black and White British Comicbook" in 2006.^[1] His small press work includes the Irish noir comic Freakshow, written by Rob Curley,^[2] which featured in the small press section of Judge Dredd Megazine,^[3] contributions to the anthologies Your Round Presents: Tequila,^[4] The Shiznit, and the Irish language comic Rí-Rá, and Tim Skinner: Total Scumbag, again with Andy Winter.^[5]

In 2008 he illustrated a graphic novel adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written by Jason Cobley, and in 2012 an adaptation of Sweeney Todd, written by Scottish writer Sean Michael Wilson, both for Classical Comics^[6][7] and he is currently working on a comics spin-off from the film 28 Days Later, written by Michael Alan Nelson and published by Boom! Studios. He also provided the art for the "Shadowland" tie-in issues of Thunderbolts.

Declan has stated he is indebted to fellow Irish comic artist & "Eclectic Mick" Stephen Mooney. In an interview on the Eclectic Micks website he says "Yeah, Stephen basically inspired me to be the man I am today. I have to give him credit for inspiring me to push past my initially drab forays in illustration to the much improved stuff I'm doing now." Mooney groomed Declan to replace him illustrating Rob Curley's Freakshow, Declan's first paid position.

Shalvey is a Star Trek fan and has expressed a desire to write Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comics for IDW Publishing. ^[8]

Bibliography

Shalvey drawing at the Big Apple Convention, 21 May 2011.

Comics

• Hero Killers (with Andy Winter, one-shot, Moonface Press, 2006)
• "Freakshow: The Quiet Man" (with Rob Curley, in Judge Dredd Megazine No. 260, July 2007)
• Your Round Presents: Tequila (Olive Press, 2007)
• Frankenstein (with Jason Cobley, 144 pages, Classical Comics, September 2008 Original Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-15-0, Quick Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-16-7)
• Tim Skinner: Total Scumbag (with Andy Winter, Moonface Press, November 2008)
• 28 Days Later #1–4, 6–8, 10–12 (with Michael Alan Nelson, Boom! Studios, July 2009 – February 2010)
• Thunderbolts #148–149 (with writer Jeff Parker, Marvel Comics, November–December 2010)
• Deadpool #15–19 (with writers Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn, Marvel Comics, August – November 2013)
• Moon Knight (with writer Warren Ellis, Marvel Comics, March 2014-?)

Illustrations

• 800 Years of Haunted Liverpool (by John Reppion, The History Press, 2008)

Awards

• 2006: Won Hero Killers "Favourite British Black and White Comicbook" Eagle Award for Hero Killers^[1]
• 2010: Nominated for "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award

Notes

References

• Declan Shalvey at the Grand Comics Database
• Declan Shalvey at Barney

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Declan Shalvey.

• Declan's Artblog
• Declan Shalvey at the Comic Book DB
• Declan Shalvey & Andy Winter: Hero Creators, Comics Bulletin, 12 December 2006
• Andy Winter and Declan Shalvey: Writer and Artist of Hero Killer, Jazma Online, 23 December 2006
• Declan Shalvey Interview, Indie Review, 9 August 2008
• It's Alive!!!!, Forbidden Planet, 24 September 2008