Happy Birthday José Luis García-López! The work of this Spanish artist spans issues of Detective Comics in 1975. He provided art on the Hercules Unbound limited series before launching the Jonah Hex solo title with Michael Fleisher. García-López also launched DC Comics Presents teaming up Superman with many characters in the DCU. He pencilled the tabloid sized Superman vs. Wonder Woman (1978) and Batman and the Hulk (1981). In 1982, The DC Style Guide featured Garcia-Lopez’s artwork putting a stamp on DC characters. Garcia-Lopez worked on the Atari Force (1984) series with Gerry Conway that took the premise started in mini-comics to incredible visuals for this sci fi world based on the video games. One of the most interesting and mature titles was another collaboration with Conway with the Cinder and Ashe (1988) limited series. This comic book is about private investigators with ties to the Vietnam War now in New Orleans. One of my favorites for it’s bold artwork and writing.
García-López worked with Howard Chaykin on the sci fi limited series Twilight (1991). He later worked on a few Batman titles, Legends of the Dark Knight, Batman Returns: The Official Comic Adaptation (1992) as well as a few Superman issues, Superman: Kal (1995) and Superman, Inc. (1999). His most impressive recent issues was Doctor Strangefate (1996) combining DC and Marvel characters. García-López also worked on two graphic novels On The Road to Perdition (2003-2004) featuring Max Allan Collins’ hard-edged noir series. He worked on JLA Classified (2006) with Gail Simone. García-López worked with Len Wein on Batman `66: The Lost Episode (2015) that was written by Harlan Ellison for the Batman tv show. This artist has a fresh, unmistakable style that is dynamic and powerful. He can span across genres from superheroes to science fiction to detectives set in the real world. García-López contributed a story to Action Comics #1000 (2018)! Happy Birthday José Luis García-López!
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