David Mazzucchelli

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David Mazzucchelli
Born September 21, 1960 (1960-09-21) (age 49)
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist, Penciller
Notable works Daredevil
Batman: Year One
Rubber Blanket
City of Glass
Asterios Polyp
Awards Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon
New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant
Japan/U.S. friendship Commission Creative Artists Fellowship[1]

David Mazzucchelli (born September 21, 1960) is an American comic book artist and illustrator. His early work was in superhero comics for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, although he later embarked on a series of acclaimed alternative comics projects.

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[edit] Career

Mazzucchelli received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and started working in comics in the early 1980s. He started at Marvel Comics where, after a few various issues, he became the regular artist on Daredevil. He developed his skills working with writer Denny O'Neil and culminated his work on this title with the popular and critically acclaimed Daredevil: Born Again story arc, written by Frank Miller (now collected in graphic novel form). Mazzucchelli began as a traditional superhero artist but over the span of his time on Daredevil, his work gained in confidence and employed expressionist techniques.

Miller and Mazzucchelli collaborated again on the four-issue story Batman: Year One, serialized in issues 404 through 407 of DC Comics' monthly Batman title. The story, since collected as a graphic novel, was also well-received and influential in the comics industry.

After Batman: Year One Mazzucchelli abandoned the superhero genre to focus on more personal projects.[2] He published three issues of his own independent anthology, Rubber Blanket, co-edited by his partner, the painter Richmond Lewis. With writer/artist Paul Karasik, he illustrated an adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass, published first by Avon Books in 1994, then by Picador in 2004 as City of Glass: The Graphic Novel. (Auster's later book The Brooklyn Follies features a character with the name Nancy Mazzucchelli, an homage to David.)

In 2009, Pantheon Books published Mazzucchelli's first graphic novel, Asterios Polyp.[3]

Mazzucchelli has also done illustration work for various publications, including interior pieces and covers for The New Yorker.[volume & issue needed]

Mazzucchelli taught comic-related courses at the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City for several semesters, and is a BFA faculty member at the School of Visual Arts.[4]

Mazzucchelli's cover to Batman #407, the fourth chapter of 1987's Batman: Year One.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] DC Comics

[edit] Marvel Comics

[edit] Cover artist only

[edit] Alternative Comics

[edit] Graphic novels

[edit] Anthologies

  • Snake Eyes #1 (Fantagraphics Books, 1991)
  • Nozone #3 (Nozone, 1991)
  • "It's a beautiful day..." in Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 1, #9 (Drawn & Quarterly, July 1992)
  • "A Brief History of Civilization" in Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 1, #9 (Drawn & Quarterly, July 1992)
  • "Phobia" in Snake Eyes #3 (Fantagraphics Books, 1993)
  • "Sorry" in Nozone #5 (Nozone, 1993)
  • "Spotlight: Rubber Blanket" in Negative Burn #10 (Caliber Comics, 1994)
  • "Sketchbook" in Negative Burn #17 (Caliber Comics, 1994)
  • "Rates of Exchange" in Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 2, #2 (Drawn & Quarterly, Dec. 1994), also cover art
  • Nozone #6 (Nozone, 1995?)
  • "Stop the Hair Nude" in Zero Zero #2 (Fantagraphics Books, 1995)
  • "Subs" in Zero Zero #11 (Fantagraphics Books, 1996)
  • "Still Life" in Zero Zero #27 (Fantagraphics Books, 2000)
  • "The Fisherman and the Sea Princess" in Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies (Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, 2000)
  • "The Boy Who Loved Comics" in The Comics Journal Special #1 (Fantagraphics Books, 2001)
  • "Midori" in Manga Surprise #1

[edit] Newspapers & Magazines

[edit] Collections

  • Daredevil: Love's Labors Lost (Marvel, 2002), collects Daredevil #215-217, 220-222, 225 by O'Neil/Mazzucchelli, #219 by Miller/Buscema, & #226 by O'Neil/Miller/Mazzucchelli
  • Daredevil: Born Again (Marvel, 1987), collects Daredevil #227-233 by Miller/Mazzucchelli
  • Batman: Year One (DC, 1988), collects Batman #404-407 by Miller/Mazzucchelli
  • Big Man (Coconino Press, 2000)
  • Discovering America (Coconino Press, 2001)
  • David Mazzucchelli Sketchbook (Kaleidoscope, 2001), features preliminary pencils from Daredevil and Batman: Year One and rare work published in Japan

[edit] Interviews

[edit] Other work

[edit] Awards

  • The American Comic Book Awards, 1985
  • Kirby Award — Best Single Issue (Daredevil #227), 1986
  • Kirby Award — Best Writer/Artist (single or team), 1986
  • Haxtur Award — Best Drawing, 1987
  • Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon (New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant)
  • Japan/US friendship Commission Creative Artists Fellowship

[edit] References

  1. ^ Biography from "Comics On the Verge" exhibition
  2. ^ Young, Frank. "Comics Used to be about Telling Stories: David Mazzucchelli Discusses his Transition from Mainstream to Independence," The Comics Journal #152 (August 1992), pp. 114–199.
  3. ^ Reid, Calvin. "Fall 2008: New Comics from Pantheon" Publishers Weekly (Nov. 13, 2007). Accessed Jan. 26, 2009.
  4. ^ SVA Events for November 19, 2008

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Preceded by
William Johnson		 Daredevil artist
1984–1986		 Succeeded by
Steve Ditko
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