Greg Capullo
Encyclopedia
Gregory “Greg” Capullo is an American
comic book
artist
and penciller
, best known for his work on Quasar
(1991–1992), X-Force
(1992–1993), Angela
(1994) and Spawn
(1993–1999, 2003–2004).
Greg Capullo also published his own creator-owned comic, The Creech
, published through Image Comics
. These were two three-issue miniseries.
Apart from comics, Capullo has been involved in several projects such as pencilling for the Korn
album Follow the Leader
and the Disturbed album, Ten Thousand Fists
, and being part of the crew who worked on the animated sequences in the 2002 film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.
who Capullo has referred to as “the master of the human figure.” He began his artistic career with a job in commercial advertising but soon was noticed for his talent as an inker
and penciller
and began on projects involving his artwork.
His first comic work was a publication called Gore Shriek, which was picked up and published by a comic book store in Albany, New York
, called Fantaco Enterprises
. Gore Shriek was a horror comic book
specifically labeled Not 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 for Marvel Comics
where he worked on Quasar
, X-Force
, and What If?. He worked with Marvel 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 smaller indie 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.
Todd McFarlane
, who had left Marvel Comics
to co-found Image Comics
, noticed Capullo’s work on X-Force
, and convinced him become the penciller
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 coverart and pencils] for many Image publications, including various Spawn tie-ins and variants, and Capullo’s own miniseries, The Creech
. Capullo helped McFarlane in creating the artwork now seen on the two Halo 3
-themed controllers.
Capullo provides layouts for Image's Haunt
, which debuted in October 2009. The pencils for the layouts were done by Ryan Ottley
up until issue 6 where Greg Capullo then took over pencilling for the series and has become the regular penciller, inks are all done by Todd McFarlane.
In June 2011, as part of DC's announcement that they will be relaunching their entire superhero line, Capullo was announced as the artist on a new Batman
#1, with writer Scott Snyder
. As such, he will be leaving the ongoing Haunt
title.
The Art of Greg Capullo is a hardcover book published by Image Comics
that showcases Capullo’s artwork, ranging from widely recognized cover art to unknown never released pencils, early submissions samples and personal sketches.
United States
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comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and penciller
Penciller
A penciller is an artist who works in the creation of comic books, graphic novels, and similar visual art forms.The penciller is the first step in rendering the story in visual form and may require several steps of feedback with the writer. These artists are concerned with layout to showcase...
, best known for his work on Quasar
Quasar (comics)
Quasar is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the . He is one of Marvel's cosmic heroes, a character whose adventures frequently take him into outer space or other dimensions...
(1991–1992), X-Force
X-Force
X-Force is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero team, one of several spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise. Conceived by writer/illustrator Rob Liefeld, the team was formed in New Mutants, vol. 1 #100 and soon afterwards was featured in its own series.The group was a new incarnation of the 1980s...
(1992–1993), Angela
Angela (comics)
Angela is a fictional character in Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic book series. The character was created for the series by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Todd McFarlane, which led to a legal battle between McFarlane and Gaiman over the rights to the character.-Fictional character biography:In the...
(1994) and Spawn
Spawn (comics)
Spawn is a fictional comic book superhero who appears in a monthly comic book of the same name published by Image Comics. Created by writer/artist Todd McFarlane, Spawn first appeared in Spawn #1...
(1993–1999, 2003–2004).
Greg Capullo also published his own creator-owned comic, The Creech
The Creech
The Creech is an American three issue comic book series published by Image Comics in 1997, followed by a subsequent three issue series in 2001. The series was created by Greg Capullo.The series features a powerful creature created in a laboratory...
, published through Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
. These were two three-issue miniseries.
Apart from comics, Capullo has been involved in several projects such as pencilling for the Korn
Korn
Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The current band line up includes four members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. The band was formed as an expansion of L.A.P.D.The band released their first demo album,...
album Follow the Leader
Follow the Leader (Korn album)
Follow the Leader is the third studio album by American nu metal band Korn. The album was released on August 18, 1998, through Immortal/Epic. This was their first album not produced by Ross Robinson...
and the Disturbed album, Ten Thousand Fists
Ten Thousand Fists
Ten Thousand Fists is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Disturbed. It was released on September 20, 2005 and became Disturbed's second consecutive #1 debut on the Billboard 200 in the United States, shipping around 239,000 copies in its opening week. It has been certified Platinum...
, and being part of the crew who worked on the animated sequences in the 2002 film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.
Career
Capullo started off as an aspiring self-taught artist. He was influenced by John BuscemaJohn Buscema
John Buscema, born Giovanni Natale Buscema , was an American comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate...
who Capullo has referred to as “the master of the human figure.” He began his artistic career with a job in commercial advertising but soon was noticed for his talent as an inker
Inker
The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional comic book or graphic novel. After a pencilled drawing is given to the inker, the inker uses black ink to produce refined outlines over the pencil lines...
and penciller
Penciller
A penciller is an artist who works in the creation of comic books, graphic novels, and similar visual art forms.The penciller is the first step in rendering the story in visual form and may require several steps of feedback with the writer. These artists are concerned with layout to showcase...
and began on projects involving his artwork.
His first comic work was a publication called Gore Shriek, which was picked up and published by a comic book store in Albany, New York
Albany, New York
Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
, called Fantaco Enterprises
FantaCo Enterprises
FantaCo Enterprises was an American comic book store and publishing company founded by Thomas Skulan and based in Albany, New York. As a publisher, FantaCo was known for its idiosyncratic line-up of mostly black-and-white titles, including the humorous Hembeck Series and the horror title Gore Shriek...
. Gore Shriek was a horror comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
specifically labeled Not 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 for Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
where he worked on Quasar
Quasar (comics)
Quasar is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the . He is one of Marvel's cosmic heroes, a character whose adventures frequently take him into outer space or other dimensions...
, X-Force
X-Force
X-Force is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero team, one of several spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise. Conceived by writer/illustrator Rob Liefeld, the team was formed in New Mutants, vol. 1 #100 and soon afterwards was featured in its own series.The group was a new incarnation of the 1980s...
, and What If?. He worked with Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
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 smaller indie 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.
Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane is a Canadian cartoonist, writer, toy designer and entrepreneur, best known for his work in comic books, such as the fantasy series Spawn....
, who had left Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
to co-found Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
, noticed Capullo’s work on X-Force
X-Force
X-Force is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero team, one of several spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise. Conceived by writer/illustrator Rob Liefeld, the team was formed in New Mutants, vol. 1 #100 and soon afterwards was featured in its own series.The group was a new incarnation of the 1980s...
, and convinced him become the penciller
Penciller
A penciller is an artist who works in the creation of comic books, graphic novels, and similar visual art forms.The penciller is the first step in rendering the story in visual form and may require several steps of feedback with the writer. These artists are concerned with layout to showcase...
on McFarlane’s comic, Spawn
Spawn (comics)
Spawn is a fictional comic book superhero who appears in a monthly comic book of the same name published by Image Comics. Created by writer/artist Todd McFarlane, Spawn first appeared in Spawn #1...
. Capullo's first issue of the book was #16, then took over as pencil artist with issue #26. Capullo has since done the coverart and pencils] for many Image publications, including various Spawn tie-ins and variants, and Capullo’s own miniseries, The Creech
The Creech
The Creech is an American three issue comic book series published by Image Comics in 1997, followed by a subsequent three issue series in 2001. The series was created by Greg Capullo.The series features a powerful creature created in a laboratory...
. Capullo helped McFarlane in creating the artwork now seen on the two Halo 3
Halo 3
Halo 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie for the Xbox 360 console. The third installment in the Halo franchise, the game concludes the story arc begun in Halo: Combat Evolved and continued in Halo 2...
-themed controllers.
Capullo provides layouts for Image's Haunt
Haunt (comics)
Haunt is a fictional comic book superhero who appears in a self-titled ongoing series published by Image Comics. Created by Todd McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, the series debuted on October 7, 2009. The comic was originally written by Kirkman with pencils by Ryan Ottley, layouts by Greg Capullo, and...
, which debuted in October 2009. The pencils for the layouts were done by Ryan Ottley
Ryan Ottley
Ryan Ottley, aka Uncle WYA, is an American comic book artist. He is best known for work on Image Comics' Invincible.-Career:Ottley is the artist and co-creator of the webcomic strip Ted Noodleman: Bicycle Delivery Boy, and it was through this webstrip that Robert Kirkman first encountered Ottley's...
up until issue 6 where Greg Capullo then took over pencilling for the series and has become the regular penciller, inks are all done by Todd McFarlane.
In June 2011, as part of DC's announcement that they will be relaunching their entire superhero line, Capullo was announced as the artist on a new Batman
Batman
Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
#1, with writer Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder is an American writer best known for his 2006 short story collection Voodoo Heart, and his work in comic books, including American Vampire, Detective Comics, Batman, Batman: Gates of Gotham and Swamp Thing.-Career:...
. As such, he will be leaving the ongoing Haunt
Haunt (comics)
Haunt is a fictional comic book superhero who appears in a self-titled ongoing series published by Image Comics. Created by Todd McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, the series debuted on October 7, 2009. The comic was originally written by Kirkman with pencils by Ryan Ottley, layouts by Greg Capullo, and...
title.
The Art of Greg Capullo is a hardcover book published by Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
that showcases Capullo’s artwork, ranging from widely recognized cover art to unknown never released pencils, early submissions samples and personal sketches.
External links
- Greg Capullo. Comic Art Community