David Lafuente
| David Lafuente | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
| Official website | |
David Lafuente is a Spanish-born comic book artist. As of 2009 he works for Marvel Comics as the artist for Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man. He currently resides in London.[1]
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[edit] Career
Lafuente was discovered by Marvel Editor C.B. Cebulski at the Dublin City Comic Con during the editor's self-named talent search ChesterQuest", 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 for Spider-Man Family #2, Published in 2007. His first major work, however, was providing the pencils/inks for Kathryn Immonen's 2008-2009 Hellcat mini-series.[2] After collaborating with writer Brian Michael Bendis on an Ultimate 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 over New 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 the IGN stage at the Kapow! convenntion in London to set two Guinness 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, writer Mark Millar began work at 9am scripting a 20-page black and white Superior comic book, with Lafuente and the other artists appearing on stage throughout the day to work on the pencils, inks, and lettering, including Dave Gibbons, Frank Quitely, John Romita Jr., Jock,[3] Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Olivier Coipel, Duncan Fegredo, Simon Furman, John McCrea, Sean Phillips and Liam Sharp,[4] who all drew a panel each, with regular Superior artist Leinil 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]
[edit] Bibliography
Interior comics work includes:
- X-Men: Divided We Stand #1-2 (June 2008-July 2008)
- Patsy Walker: Hellcat #1-5 (September 2008-February 2009)
- Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #3 (October 2008)
- Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1-6, 9-14, 150, 152-154 (August 2009-February 2011)
- New Mutants
[edit] Covers
- Runaways vol. 3 #10-12
- Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1-15, 150-154 (August 2009-February 2011)
- Scarlet #1 (Variant)
- Young Allies #1-5
- Turf #2 (Variant)
- The Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead #4 (Variant)
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b NYCC '09 - David Lafuente on Ultimate Spider-Man, Newsarama, February 12, 2009
- ^ Raising Hell(cat): Lafuente Draws “Patsy Walker", Comic Book Resources, June 11, 2008
- ^ a b "Kapow! '11: Comic History Rewritten On The IGN Stage". IGN. April 14, 2011
- ^ "Guinness World Records at Kapow! Comic Con". Guinness World Records. April 9, 2011
[edit] References
- David Lafuente at the Grand Comics Database
- David Lafuente at the Comic Book DB
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Stuart Immonen |
Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man artist 2009– 2010 |
Succeeded by Mark Bagley |
