Kevin Maguire (b. 1960)

Biography:

Kevin Maguire is an American comics artist, known for his work on series such as Justice League, Batman Confidential, Captain America, and X-Men.

Maguire's first credited published comics work was The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe vol. 2 #6 (May 1986), he did support in production work for Marvel in 1986.. He debuted at DC with artwork in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #23 (January 1987) and #25 (March 1987).

In 1987, Maguire was the artist on the relaunch of Justice League written by Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis. He has frequently collaborated with writer Fabian Nicieza on series such as Adventures of Captain America, X-Men Forever, and Batman Confidential. Maguire and George Pérez alternated as artists of the New 52 revival of the Worlds' Finest series, written by Paul Levitz. In 2018 he joined writer Marc Andreyko as the artist on Supergirl as of issue #21 (October 2018).

Notes:

Additional biographical information found in Four Color Magazine (Paragon Q, 1986 series) #5 (March 1987).

Name:

  • Kevin Maguire
  • Type: Common Alternative Name
    Given name: Kevin Family name: Maguire

Other Names:

  1. Maguire Type: Common Alternative Name
    Family name: Maguire

Signatures:

  1. K-K-Kevin [generic]
  2. K.M. [generic]
  3. Kev [generic]
  4. Kevin [generic]
  5. Kevin Maguire [generic]
  6. KM [generic]
  7. KM
  8. M [generic]
  9. MAG [generic]
  10. Maguire [generic]
  11. MAGUIRE
  12. McG [generic]
  13. MG [generic]


Awards:

  1. 1988: Russ Manning Award - Most Promising Newcomer Award
  2. 1992: Premios Haxtur (Haxtur Awards) - Best Drawing
  3. 1994: Premios Haxtur (Haxtur Awards) - Finalist with the Most Votes

Awards for Issues:

  1. 1995: Eisner Award - Best Anthology
    The Big Book of Urban Legends (1994 series)

Art Influences:

Kevin Maguire (b. 1960) stated influences by:
  1. Frank Frazetta (b. 1928)
  2. Chuck Jones (b. 1912)
Influences by Kevin Maguire (b. 1960) were stated by:
  1. Roger Cruz (b. 1971)
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