| Greg Capullo | |
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 Capullo in 2024 | |
| Born | Gregory Capullo (1962-03-30)March 30, 1962 (age 62) Schenectady,New York, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Penciller, inker, cover artist |
Notable works | |
| Awards | Inkpot Award (2015)[1] |
Gregory Capullo (/kəˈpʊloʊ/; born March 30, 1962) is an Americancomic bookartist andpenciller, best known for his work onQuasar (1991–1992),X-Force (1992–1993),Angela (1994),Spawn (1993–2000, 2003–2004),Batman (2011–2016), andReborn (2016–2017). He also drew theDC Comics company-wide crossover storylinesDark Nights: Metal andDark Nights: Death Metal. As part of his DC work, he co-created the characters,The Batman Who Laughs,Mr. Bloom, and theCourt of Owls.
Greg Capullo also published his own creator-owned comic,The Creech, published throughImage Comics. These were two three-issue miniseries.
Apart from comics, Capullo has been involved in several projects such as pencilling for theIced Earth albumsThe Dark Saga andSomething Wicked This Way Comes, theKorn albumFollow the Leader and theDisturbed album,Ten Thousand Fists. He was also part of the crew who worked on the animated sequences in the 2002 filmThe Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.
Greg Capullo began drawing at an early age, and remembers that he drew his first drawing ofBatman when he was 4. His preference for Batman persisted into his adulthood, with his favoriteDC Comics graphic novel beingFrank Miller'sThe Dark Knight Returns. He decided he wanted to be a professional artist early, having been influenced by creators such asJohn Buscema,Neal Adams,Gene Colan andGil Kane. He also was influenced by artists outside of comics, such as painterFrank Frazetta, animatorChuck Jones, andMad MagazinecaricaturistMort Drucker.[2]
Capullo's firstcomic work was a publication calledGore Shriek, which was picked up and published by a comic book store inAlbany, New York, calledFantaco Enterprises.Gore Shriek was a horrorcomic book specifically labeledNot Intended for Children because of the violent and graphic nature of it.
Due to the success of the small comic series, when it had ended, Capullo began work forMarvel Comics where he worked onQuasar,X-Force, andWhat If?. He worked withMarvel Comics for three years on various works, before moving on to other publications and projects with different companies.
Briefly after Capullo had started work with Marvel, he had begun smallerindependent projects away from the company. He had started involvement with separate labels and anyone who would hire him for miscellaneous odd-jobs that needed completion.[citation needed]
Todd McFarlane, who had leftMarvel Comics to co-foundImage Comics, noticed Capullo’s work onX-Force, and convinced him become thepenciller on McFarlane’s comic,Spawn. Capullo's first issue of the book was #16, then took over as pencil artist with issue #26. Capullo has since done the cover art and pencils for many Image publications, including variousSpawn tie-ins and variants, and Capullo’s own miniseries,The Creech. Capullo helped McFarlane in creating the artwork now seen on the twoHalo 3-themed controllers.
In February 2007,Image Comics publishedThe Art of Greg Capullo, a hardcover book showcasing Capullo’s artwork, ranging from widely recognized cover art to unknown never released pencils, early submissions samples and personal sketches.
Capullo provided layouts for Image'sHaunt, which debuted in October 2009. The pencils for the layouts were done byRyan Ottley up until issue 6, when Greg Capullo then took over pencilling for the series and became the regular penciller, with inks done by Todd McFarlane.[3]
In 2011 Capullo left the ongoingHaunt title[4] in order to take on the art duties onBatman as part of DC Comics' 2011 company-wide title relaunch,The New 52, which paired him with writerScott Snyder.[5] The two creators worked together on the series for five years, creating a number of critically and fan-acclaimed stories, and reinventing classic characters for DC’s then-new continuity.[6]
On September 9, 2013, he appeared as a special guest judge on "Skulls and Villains", a third season episode of thereality competition TV seriesInk Master.
Capullo is responsible for the art onFive Finger Death Punch albumsThe Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 andThe Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2, plus the first single "Lift Me Up" . He has also done artwork for heavy metal bands, Iced Earth and Disturbed.[citation needed]
In 2013, he was named onIGN's list of "The Best Tweeters in Comics" for his "invigoratingly aggressive" posts on Twitter.[7]
In April 2016 Snyder and Capullo's time on the Batman solo series ended with issue 51, and the series was relaunched with Tom King writing in May.
In October 2016, Capullo revealed that he was working on a project that he described as "very Batman-centric, and very rock n’ roll." That December, he revealed that he signed a new contract with DC Comics.[6]Dark Nights: Metal was announced atFan Expo Dallas in April 2017. The series' first issue was released in June of the same year, and featured a reunion between Capullo and Snyder. Capullo drew all six issues of the series, which concluded in March 2018.
Shortly before the release of the last issue of Metal, DC announced that Capullo would join Snyder for hisBlack Label bookBatman: The Last Knight on Earth, replacing the previously announced[8]Sean Gordon Murphy.
Capullo drew variant covers for the 2018 Justice League Dark series' first four issues. He also provided a variant cover for Snyder's The Batman Who Laughs miniseries, a spin-off of their Metal event. Capullo drew Snyder's 8-page story for Detective Comics' 1000th issue, which was the first in the book. He also provided the 2010s variant cover.
In February 2019 the cover to the first issue of The Last Knight on Earth was revealed,[9] and in March the first color interiors for the book were revealed at Wondercon,[10] though Capullo frequently shared art in various stages of development on his social media.[11]
In July 2022, duringSan Diego Comic-Con 2022, it was announced that Capullo would be illustrating a newBatman/Spawn crossover, with McFarlane writing and releasing in December 2022.[12]
In July 2023, it was announced atSan Diego Comic-Con 2023 that Capullo would be returning to Marvel to draw a series of variant covers the first of which was for Wolverine (2020) #37.[13] In September 2023, the second and third Marvel variant covers drawn by Capullo were announced for Moon Knight #30 and Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1.[14] In November 2023, the fourth Marvel variant cover drawn by Capullo was announced for Incredible Hulk #9.[15] That same month, Capullo announced that he had signed a contract with Marvel for more cover work and an unannounced series.[16]
In May 2024, it was announced that Capullo would illustrate a new Marvel miniseries starringWolverine which will be written by writerJonathan Hickman. The miniseries, titledWolverine: Revenge will release its first issue on August 24, 2024 and will feature a red band version that will contain extra violence and extra pages.[17][18]
