Alan Davis (b. 1956)

Biography:

Alan Davis is an English comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Captain Britain, The Uncanny X-Men, ClanDestine, Detective Comics, Excalibur, JLA: The Nail and JLA: Another Nail.

Davis began his career in comics on an English fanzine. His first professional work was a strip called The Crusader in Frantic Magazine for Dez Skinn's revamped Marvel UK line. Davis's big break was drawing the revamped Captain Britain story in Marvel Superheroes. Davis drew 14 issues of the monthly Captain Britain title. Davis formed a close working partnership with writer Alan Moore; besides working on Captain Britain they also created D.R. and Quinch for 2000AD. Later, Davis replaced Garry Leach on Marvelman in Warrior and yet again worked with Moore.

In 1985, Davis also began to take on work for US publishers, where he started as a regular artist for the series Batman and the Outsiders (#22-36) and Detective Comics (#569-575). At the same time, Davis began working for Marvel, in particular with writer Chris Claremont, where they created the series Excalibur. Davis drew issues #1-24 and #42.

In the 1990s, Davis drew, among others, the two X-Men series X-Men (#85-99; Annual 1999) and Uncanny X-Men (#360-380). With ClanDestine in 1994, Davis created his first series as author and illustrator that was entirely his own work.

In the 2000s, he worked mainly as a cover artist, a longer run as interior artist was Wolverine (Marvel, 2013 series), or the mini-series Guardians of the Galaxy: Mother Entropy (Marvel, 2017 series) with Jim Starlin.

Notes:

To be confirmed against the Who's Who entry.

Name:

  • Alan Davis
  • Type: Name at Birth
    Given name: Alan Family name: Davis

Other Names:

  1. Davis Type: Common Alternative Name
    Family name: Davis
  2. A. Davis Type: Common Alternative Name
    Given name: A. Family name: Davis
  3. Алън Дейвис
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Signatures:

  1. AD [generic]
  2. Alan Davis [generic]
  3. Alan Davis
  4. Alan Davis [stacked] [generic]

Awards:

  1. 1986: Kirby Award - Best Artist
  2. 1989: Eisner Award - Best Art Team
  3. 1989: Squiddy Award - Favorite Creative Team
  4. 1992: Harvey Award - Best Writer
  5. 1993: Premios Haxtur (Haxtur Awards) - Best Drawing
  6. 1996: Premios Haxtur (Haxtur Awards) - Best Drawing
  7. 1996: Harvey Award - Best Writer
  8. 1998: Harvey Award - Best Artist
  9. 2000: Harvey Award - Best Writer
  10. 2002: National Comics Awards - Incognito Award for Best Artist Ever
  11. 2002: National Comics Awards - ACE Comics Award for Best Artist Now
  12. 2011: Inkpot Award - [no name]

Awards for Issues:

  1. 1989: Squiddy Award - Favorite Single Issue of Any Series
    Excalibur (1988 series) #14 [Direct]
  2. 1989: Squiddy Award - Favorite Single Issue of Any Series
    Excalibur (1988 series) #16 [Direct]
  3. 2014: マンガ大賞 (Gaiman Award) - [no name]
    Hawkeye (2013 series) #1 - My Life as a Weapon

Relations:

  1. Relative - Noel Davis

Art Influences:

Alan Davis (b. 1956) stated influences by:
  1. Neal Adams (b. 1941)
  2. Frank Bellamy (b. 1917)
  3. Jesús Blasco (b. 1919)
  4. John M. Burns (b. 1938)
  5. John Buscema (b. 1927)
  6. Steve Ditko (b. 1927)
  7. Frank Hampson (b. 1918)
  8. Sydney Jordan (b. 1928)
  9. Gil Kane (b. 1926)
  10. Jack Kirby (b. 1917)
Influences by Alan Davis (b. 1956) were stated by:
  1. Eddy Barrows (b. 1974)
  2. Garrett Berner
  3. Trevor Hairsine (b. 1969)
  4. Joe Madureira (b. 1974)
  5. Todd Nauck (b. 1971)
  6. Nelson Ortega (b. ????)
  7. Andy Park (b. 1975)
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