| David Lafuente | |
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 Lafuente in 2019 | |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Area(s) | Penciller, inker, cover artist, concept artist |
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David Lafuente is aSpanish-borncomic book artist known for his work on books such asUltimate Comics: Spider-Man. He currently resides inLondon.[1]
Lafuente first penciled such series asPhénix andKabur (written byJean-Marc Lofficier) forHexagon Comics, then was discovered by Marvel EditorC.B. Cebulski at the Dublin City Comic Con during the editor's self-named talent searchChesterQuest", though the artist's official website displays professional work dated much earlier than this. His first work for Marvel was doing the layouts and coloring forSpider-Man Family #2, Published in 2007. His first major work, however, was providing the pencils/inks forKathryn Immonen's 2008-2009Hellcat mini-series.[2] After collaborating with writerBrian Michael Bendis on anUltimate Spider-Man Annual in 2008, he was picked as the regular artist for that series' 2009 relaunch, which debuted in August 2009.[1] He took overNew Mutants as the regular artist, starting on issue 29, which was a tie-in to the 2011 "Fear Itself" storyline.
On April 9, 2011 Lafuente was one of 62 comics creators who appeared at theIGN stage at the Kapow! convention in London to set twoGuinness World Records, the Fastest Production of a Comic Book, and Most Contributors to a Comic Book. With Guinness officials on hand to monitor their progress, writerMark Millar began work at 9 am scripting a 20-page black and whiteSuperior comic book, with Lafuente and the other artists appearing on stage throughout the day to work on the pencils, inks, and lettering, includingDave Gibbons,Frank Quitely,John Romita Jr.,Jock,[3]Doug Braithwaite,Ian Churchill,Olivier Coipel,Duncan Fegredo,Simon Furman,John McCrea,Sean Phillips andLiam Sharp,[4] who all drew a panel each, with regularSuperior artistLeinil Yu creating the book's front cover. The book was completed in 11 hours, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds, and was published through Icon on November 23, 2011, with all royalties being donated to Yorkhill Children's Foundation.[3]
In January 2015 it was announced thatKieron Gillen,Jim Rossignol and David Lafuente were working on acreator-owned series forImage Comics titled "The Ludocrats."[5] Due to schedule issues, the art ended up being done by Jeff Stokely.[6]
David Lafuente was exclusive toValiant Comics in 2015 and 2016[7] and was the regular artist on A&A: The Adventures Of Archer & Armstrong. In 2019 drew the Amazing Spider-Man Annual starring Spider-Ham, written byJason Latour, later moved toDC Comics to work onSuperman with frequent collaboratorBrian Michael Bendis.[8]
As of 2022, Lafuente works as video-game concept artist forAtmos.
David Lafuente has an activeYouTube presence in his own channel and in the Streaming de Dibujantes channel withDavid Lopez (artist).
Interior comic work includes:
| Preceded by | Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man artist 2009– 2011 | Succeeded by |
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