Guy Davis (comics)

Guy Davis (born 1966) is an American comic book artist primarily known for his work on Sandman Mystery Theatre and various Hellboy-related comics. He has also done work for various White Wolf, Inc. books as well has his own series, Nevermen and The Marquis.

Biography

Career

A self-taught illustrator, Guy Davis began cartooning with a comic strip that ran in his hometown newspaper while Davis was still in school. After graduating, he continued working towards a career in comics, and in 1984, he created the tongue-in-cheek space opera Quonto of the Star Corps for the small press Fantastic Fanzine. Quonto was not a success, but the fanzine would become Arrow Comics and lead to work (for Davis) on the comic series The Realm. After a few years at Arrow, Davis' work attracted the editors of Caliber Press, who published his first creator-owned series — the Harvey Award-nominated Baker Street.

It was the success of Baker Street that got Davis work with DC Comics/Vertigo. He illustrated Sandman Mystery Theatre with Matt Wagner and Steven T. Seagle. Since that time, he has worked for Marvel Comics illustrating Deadline, and provided artwork and designs for the animated pilot of Mike Mignola's The Amazing Screw-On Head.

He also produced numerous spot illustrations to the White Wolf role-playing game series.

Davis continues to work, illustrating Mike Mignola’s ongoing B.P.R.D. series, the Jerry Frissen's serial The Zombies That Ate the World for Métal Hurlant, and continuing his creator-owned series The Marquis following its move to Dark Horse Comics.^[1][2] In 2010 he also drew his first Judge Dredd story, written by Rob Williams, with long-time colouring collaborator Dave Stewart.^[3]

At the 2011 ECCC, it was announced that Guy Davis would no longer be the on-going B.P.R.D. artist and would be replaced by Tyler Crook. Davis confirmed at least one new B.P.R.D. short story in the future.^[4]

Personal life

Guy Davis resides in Michigan, with his fiancée, painter and sculptor Rosemary Van Deuren.

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• Baker Street (art and script, with writer Gary Reed (first arc), ten-issue limited series, March 1989 - February 1991, collected as 2 trade paperbacks by Caliber Comics, single volume, iBooks, 352 pages, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7434-5904-4)
• Sandman Mystery Theatre (with Matt Wagner and Steve Seagle, Vertigo)
• Vertigo Visions: Phantom Stranger (with Alisa Kwitney, one-shot special, Vertigo)
• Starman #22 (with James Robinson, DC Comics, September 1996)

• Nevermen (with Philip Amara, Dark Horse Comics):
  • The Nevermen (4-issue mini-series, 2000, tpb, 120 pages, 2001, ISBN 1-56971-575-0)^[5]
  • Streets of Blood (3-issue mini-series, 2003, tpb, 80 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-56971-823-7)^[6]

• The Marquis (script and art, Oni Press):
  • Danse Macabre (176 pages, 2001, ISBN 1-929998-15-5)
  • Intermezzo (112 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-929998-74-0)

• Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules (with James Sturm, Marvel Comics, March–June, 2003, tpb, 2003, ISBN 0-7851-1112-3)
• Batman: Nevermore (with Len Wein, 5-issue mini-series, Elseworlds, DC Comics, June - October, 2003)
• The Zombies That Ate the World (art, with writer Jerry Frissen, in Métal Hurlant, #8-14, Sept/Oct. 2003 - Nov/Dec. 2004, tpb, Devil's Due Publishing, 184 pages, October 2009, ISBN 1-934692-66-2)

• B.P.R.D. (art, with writer Mike Mignola, Dark Horse Comics, July 2003 - ongoing) collected as:
  • The Soul of Venice and Other Stories (collects "Dark Waters", ISBN 1-59307-132-9)
  • Plague of Frogs (collects A Plague of Frogs 5-issue limited series, ISBN 1-59307-288-0)
  • The Dead (collects The Dead 5-issue limited series, 2005, ISBN 1-59307-380-1)
  • The Black Flame (collects The Black Flame 6-issue limited series, July 2006, ISBN 1-59307-550-2)
  • The Universal Machine (collects The Universal Machine 5-issue limited series, January 2007, ISBN 1-59307-710-6)
  • Garden of Souls (collects Garden of Souls 5-issue limited series, January 2008, ISBN 1-59307-882-X)
  • Killing Ground (collects Killing Ground 5-issue limited series, May 2008, ISBN 1-59307-956-7)
  • The Warning (collects The Warning 5-issue limited series, April 29, 2009, ISBN 1-59582-304-2)

• Judge Dredd: "Out Law" (with Rob Williams, in Judge Dredd Megazine #296, March 2010)^[7]

Awards

He won the Eisner Award in

• 1997: Won "Best Serialized Story," for "Sand and Stars" (Starman #20-23) with James Robinson, Tony Harris, and Wade Von Grawbadger^[8]
• 2004: Won "Best Limited Series," for Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules with James Sturm^[9]
• 2009: Won "Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team," for BPRD

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• SciFi.com's The Amazing Screw-On Head pilot

Interviews

• Manning, Shaun (January 20, 2010). "The Art of Monsters with Guy Davis". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved March 17, 2010. 
• "GUY DAVIS Talks B.P.R.D. & The Marquis". Newsarama. May 22, 2010.