Dave Gibbons

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born

April 14, 1949 in The United Kingdom

website

http://www.davegibbons.net/

genre

Comics & Graphic Novels

influences

Wally Wood, Will Elder

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Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He also was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.

Gibbons broke into British comics by working on horror and action titles for both DC Thomson and IPC. When the science-fiction anthology title 2000 AD was set up in the mid-1970s, Gibbons contributed artwork to the first issue, Prog 01 (February 1977), and went on to draw the first 24 installments of Harlem Heroes, one of the founding (and pre-Judge Dredd) strips. Mid-way through the c...more Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He also was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.

Gibbons broke into British comics by working on horror and action titles for both DC Thomson and IPC. When the science-fiction anthology title 2000 AD was set up in the mid-1970s, Gibbons contributed artwork to the first issue, Prog 01 (February 1977), and went on to draw the first 24 installments of Harlem Heroes, one of the founding (and pre-Judge Dredd) strips. Mid-way through the comic's first year he began illustrating Dan Dare, a cherished project for Gibbons who had been a fan of the original series. Also working on early feature Ro-Busters, Gibbons became one of the most prolific of 2000 AD's earliest creators, contributing artwork to 108 of the first 131 Progs/issues. He returned to the pages of "the Galaxy's Greatest Comic" in the early 1980s to create Rogue Trooper with writer Gerry Finley-Day and produce an acclaimed early run on that feature, before handing it over to a succession of other artists. He also illustrated a handful of Tharg's Future Shocks shorts, primarily with author Alan Moore. Gibbons departed from 2000 AD briefly in the late 1970s/early 1980s to became the lead artist on Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly, for which magazine he drew the main comic strip from issue #1 until #69, missing only four issues during that time.

He is best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen, now one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time, and the only one to feature on Time's "Top 100 Novels" list. From the start of the 1990s, Gibbons began to focus as much on writing and inking as on drawing, contributing to a number of different titles and issues from a variety of companies. Particular highlights included, in 1990, Gibbons writing the three-issue World's Finest miniseries for artist Steve Rude and DC, while drawing Give Me Liberty for writer Frank Miller and Dark Horse Comics. He penned the first Batman Vs. Predator crossover for artists Andy and Adam Kubert (Dec 1991 - Feb 1992), and inked Rick Veitch and Stephen R. Bissette for half of Alan Moore's 1963 Image Comics series.

Works other than comics include providing the background art for the 1994 computer game Beneath a Steel Sky and the cover to K, the 1996 debut album by psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker. In 2007, he served as a consultant on the film Watchmen, which was adapted from the book, and released in March 2009. 2009's Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Director's Cut for the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms featured hand drawn art by Dave Gibbons.(less)

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Books by Dave Gibbons

Average rating: 4.27 · 119,312 ratings · 6,973 reviews · 102 distinct works

	Watching the Watchmen by Dave Gibbons, Chip Kidd 3.91 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Green Lantern Corps, Vol. 2: The Dark Side of Green by Dave Gibbons, Keith Champagne, Patrick Gleason (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Countdown to Infinite Crisis: The Rann-Thanagar War by Dave Gibbons, Ivan Reis (Illustrator), Marc Campos (Illustrator) 3.00 avg rating — 244 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Batman vs. Predator: The Collected Edition by Dave Gibbons, Andy Kubert (Illustrator), Adam Kubert (Illustrator) 3.62 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Green Lantern Corps, Vol. 1: To Be a Lantern by Dave Gibbons, Patrick Gleason (Illustrator), Prentis Rollins (Illustrator) 3.61 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Originals 3.14 avg rating — 197 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Superman/Batman: World's Finest by Dave Gibbons, Steve Rude (Illustrator), Karl Kesel (Illustrator) 3.58 avg rating — 80 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Superman: Kal by Dave Gibbons, José Luis García-López (Illustrator), Todd Klein (Letterer) 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Iron Legion: Collected Comics From The Pages Of Doctor Who Weekly by Dave Gibbons, John Wagner, Pat Mills 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Doctor Who: The Tides Of Time by Dave Gibbons (Illustrator), Steve Parkhouse, Steve Dillon 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings	My rating: