Michael Turner

See also: Turner, Michael Turner (homonymy)

Michael Turner (born the April 21st 1971) is an American draftsman of Comic S.

Biography

He was discovered by Marc Silvestri at the time of a convention and, with him, helped with the creation of the character of comics Sara Pezzini and his appointed series, Witchblade . It is difficult to separate success from the first hours of this series of the graphic talent of Michael Turner. This same success périclitant since its departure does nothing but confirm it. Its female characters are always represented in a very sexy way, but the principal men are not remains about it either, proof are the principal enemy of Sara Pezzini, Kenneth Irons, and its enemy/lover Ian Nottingham.

But Witchblade was only one participation, whereas the series which followed and for which Michael démena body and heart was its baby, Fathom . Often doing in the marine depths, Michael implied himself in realism while going as far as spending the hours in deep-sea diving to reproduce fauna and the marine flora most accurately possible.

And it is at the time of a " détente" in surfing, that an accident permi with the doctors to discover a cancer.

This last nailed Michael on a bed of hospital during months, delaying of as much the exit of Fathom, and this same if " Mike" used of its spare time (and in state) for crayonner die die. An anecdote also reveals that it sometimes tried drawn under morphine and some of the sketches thus carried out are findable in certain magazines.

It is on this bed of hospital that Michael thinks of her life passed, and with the need to live fully in the future. It is there that it took the desire to him for working for itself, certainly constant by the fact that its fans continued to await his return impatiently. It is as there as it found the concepts of new series, of which “Ekos and” Soulfire .

Since 2004, it assembled its own production company Aspen comics, shouldered by the old ones from Top Cow having followed it. It produces inter alia, Talent Caldwell, which today left Aspen Comics, and JT Krull, become the scenario writer appointed several series, Koi Turnbull which took the hand on volume 2 of Fathom , Marcus To which after the mini-series on the central male character of Fathom, Canon Hawke, deals now with the second mini-series on the universe Soulfire, Chaos Reign, Micah gunnel, having initially officiated on the first mini-series on the universe Soulfire, Dying off the Light, and maintaining with the drawing of a very new series, Shrugged. Jeph Loeb and Geoff Johns took part, respectively, with the launching of the series Soulfire and Ekos .

Michael Turner also took part in the development of the comics devoted to very famous heroin: Tomb Raider , but also worked for cd. Comics, carrying out the arc " The Supergirl from Krypton" putting in scene the arrival of a news Supergirl in the series Superman/Batman scenarized by Loeb. Then supervising an arc on the series Superman , " Godfall" , which introduced the characters of Preus and Lyla.

It also carried out covers for titles cd. like Flash and Identity Crisis , the great event of 2004.

In 2006, Michael continues to deal with her own series, while working for cd. Comics on the return of Justice League off America, and while also working on the covers alternatives for Marvel Comics, including those of évênement the 2006, Civil War . Except War Civilian, and his alternatives for Wolverine: Origins , ms Marvel , and Black Panther , " Mike" should also be in load of a Marvel series, with the orders of the covers and internal pages, probably Ultimate Wolverine .

Bibliography (nonexhaustive)

(the titles followed of one * were translated into French, even partially)

Action Comics #812-813 (" Godfall" , scenario and covers, cd., 2004) *
Adventures off Superman 625-626 (" Godfall" , scenario and covers, cd., 2004) *
Cyberforce Orgins #2 (Signal Cow) *
Devil' S Reign #5-#6 (Marvel/Signal Cow 1997) *
Ekos Preview (Aspen, 2003) *
Fathom #0-#14 + Preview (Signal Cow) *
Michael Turner Present Aspen (Signal Cow) *
Soulfire (Aspen, 2003) *
Superman #202-203 (" Godfall" , scenario and covers, cd., 2004) *
Superman/Batman #8-13 (cd., 2004) *
Tomb Raider #25 (Signal Cow) *
Tomb Raider/Witchblade #1 (Signal Cow) *
Witchblade/Tomb Raider #1 (Signal Cow) *
Witchblade #1-#22, #25 (Signal Cow) *

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