Duncan Fegredo
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| Born | 1964 (age 47–48) Leicester |
| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
| Notable works | Enigma Hellboy: Darkness Calls |
Duncan Fegredo is a British comic book artist born in Leicester in 1964.
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[edit] Career
Fegredo first managed to get into comics after showing his portfolio around UKCAC in 1987 and meeting Dave Thorpe. Together they worked on a strip for a short lived British magazine called Heartbreak Hotel. After this, Fegredo worked for Crisis for Fleetway before working on Kid Eternity at DC Comics with writer Grant Morrison. He then worked with writer Peter Milligan on Enigma, an eight-issue miniseries for DC's Vertigo imprint.[1] At 2000 AD he worked on Judge Dredd and a couple of other titles.
Other notable work includes the comic-book versions of Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob characters, Shade the Changing Man and Ultimate Adventures
For a few years, Duncan Fegredo was the regular artist on Dark Horse's Hellboy series. Fegredo's six-issue miniseries, Hellboy: Darkness Calls, was the first Hellboy miniseries that did not feature Hellboy creator Mike Mignola on art (Mignola plotted the book). Fegredo went on to do the art for the short story Hellboy: The Mole, the eight-issue miniseries Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, and the miniseries The Storm and The Fury (both three issues). The Fury will be his final story as the regular artist, with Mike Mignola returning for the next miniseries.[2]
On April 9, 2011 Fegredo was one of 62 comics creators who appeared at the IGN stage at the Kapow! convention 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 Fegredo 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, Simon Furman, David Lafuente, 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:
- New Statesmen (with John Smith):
- "Where the railroad meets the sea" (in Crisis #7, 1988)
- "Memories on Ice" (in Crisis #8, 1988)
- Third World War (with Pat Mills):
- "Liats law" (in Crisis #19, 1989)
- "Liats law II" (in Crisis #26, 1989)
- Kid Eternity (with Grant Morrison, Vertigo, 3-issue mini-series, 1991, tpb, 2006 ISBN 1-4012-0933-5)
- Enigma (with Peter Milligan, 8-issue limited series, DC Comics, 1993, tpb, 208 pages, Titan Books, August 1995, ISBN 1852866152, DC, December 1993, ISBN 1-56389-192-1)
- Girl (with Peter Milligan, 3-issue mini-series, Vertigo, 1996)
- Jay & Silent Bob (with Kevin Smith, 4-issue mini-series, Oni Press, 1998–1999, collected as Chasing Dogma, 120 pages, Titan Books, April 2000, ISBN 1840231688, Image Comics, July 2001, ISBN 158240206X)
- Judge Dredd (with John Wagner):
- "Dead Ringer" (in Judge Dredd Megazine (vol. 3) #64, 2000)
- "The Bad Juve (in 2000 AD #1227, 2001)
- "The Runner" (in 2000 AD #1240, 2001)
- Spider-Man's Tangled Web #5-6: "Flowers for Rhino" (with Peter Milligan, Marvel Comics, 2001)
- Hellboy: Darkness Calls (with Mike Mignola, 6-issue limited series, Dark Horse Comics, April–November 2007, tpb, June 2008, ISBN 1-59307-896-X)
- Hellboy: The Wild Hunt (with Mike Mignola, 8-issue limited series, Dark Horse Comics, December 2008 - November 2009, tpb, March 2010, ISBN 1-59582-431-6)
[edit] Covers
Cover work includes
- Lucifer #1-14 (Vertigo, June 2000 - July 2001)
- Shade, the Changing Man #42-50, 54-63, 65-70 (Vertigo, 1993-1996)
[edit] Awards
- 2001: Nominated for "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award, for Lucifer[5]
- 2007: Won "Favourite Colour Comicbook - American" Eagle Award, for Hellboy: Darkness Calls
[edit] Notes
- ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Enigma", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 66, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
- ^ Dark Horse Comics official site 2011 - Multiple sources here, the shop, the letters from the editor, and the news blog
- ^ 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
- ^ 2001 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees Winners at the Comic Book Awards Almanac
[edit] References
- Duncan Fegredo at the Grand Comics Database
- Duncan Fegredo at Barney
[edit] External links
- Duncan Fegredo checklist
- Duncan Fegredo at the Comic Book DB
