Leinil Francis Yu

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Leinil Francis Yu

Yu at the Big Apple Comic Convention in Manhattan, October 2, 2010.
Nationality Filipino
Area(s) Penciller, Inker
Notable works New Avengers
Silent Dragon
Superman: Birthright
X-Men, vol. 2
Official website

Leinil Francis Yu is a Filipino comic book artist, who began working for the American market through Wildstorm Productions. In an interview published in Marvel's Daily Bugle newsletter, he described his style as "Dynamic Pseudo-Realism."[citation needed]

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[edit] Career

Leinil Francis Yu was first recognized after winning the Wizard's Drawing Board Contest, his first published work. He was first hired by Whilce Portacio to do some work for Wildstorm, but that work fell through. Portacio then passed on samples of Yu's work to Marvel Comics, who subsequently hired him to work on Wolverine.[citation needed]

After his run on Wolverine he moved on to work on Marvel's core X-Men title in 2000, which was being written by Chris Claremont at the time. Yu continued to work on other Marvel titles such as Fantastic Four, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk and New Avengers. He also co-created High Roads with writer Scott Lobdell at Cliffhanger, and Superman: Birthright with Mark Waid and Silent Dragon with Andy Diggle at DC Comics.

His run on Marvel's New Avengers series ended with #37 so he could begin working on Secret Invasion. New Avengers writer Brian Michael Bendis. He also completed his work on the long-delayed Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk series after finishing the miniseries Secret Invasion, before going on to work on Ultimate Comics: Avengers 2 with writer Mark Millar.

Yu was also commissioned to design The Pin-Ups' album covers for their debut album Hello Pain, which made them the first Philippine-based band to sign with a U.S. independent label, and the internationally released Taste Test EP.[1]

On April 9, 2011 Yu 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 Yu providing the book's front cover, 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,[2] Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Duncan Fegredo, Simon Furman, David Lafuente, John McCrea, Sean Phillips and Liam Sharp,[3] who all drew a panel each. 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.[2]

[edit] Bibliography

Yu sketching at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 16, 2011.

[edit] Interior work

[edit] Covers only

[edit] References

  1. ^ "The Pn-Up Girls: The little band that could". http://www.philstar.com/youngstar/ysarticle.aspx?articleId=193783&publicationSubCategoryId=84. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 
  2. ^ a b "Kapow! '11: Comic History Rewritten On The IGN Stage". IGN. April 14, 2011
  3. ^ "Guinness World Records at Kapow! Comic Con". Guinness World Records. April 9, 2011

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