Adam Warren (comics)

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Adam Warren
Born1967 (age 56–57)
New Hampshire, United States
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, Artist
Notable works
The Dirty Pair
Empowered
http://adamwarren.deviantart.com/

Adam Warren (born 1967) is an

freelance works. His current project is Empowered, which he has been working on continuously since 2007.[2]

Early life

Adam Warren was born in New Hampshire. He began attending The Kubert School[3] in Dover, New Jersey in 1985, but was unsure about his future in comics after less than a year of attendance. Over the Christmas break of his first year, he chanced upon manga and anime, some of which was the original Dirty Pair, and this renewed his drive to become an artist.[1]

Career

After graduating from the Kubert School, Warren spent a year attempting to acquire the rights to produce a comic based on the Dirty Pair. He was finally able to make inroads with the help of

Biohazards, which he co-wrote with Smith and published through Studio Proteus and Eclipse Comics
in 1989. The next two Dirty Pair works would be co-written with Smith and released by Eclipse Comics. Starting with the fourth book, Sim Hell, it became a solo project and was released by Dark Horse Comics.

Throughout the '90s and into the 2000s Warren produced several Dirty Pair comics and

PSM magazine. His PlayStation comics usually relate to their major featured article and are found on the back page of the magazine. His art has also been featured in their swimsuit edition. He has also been known to do some translation and scripting work, Seraphic Feather and Cannon God Exaxxion
being two of the only known credited examples.

Warren's latest completed works are

SSX series.[5]

Warren's latest work, which he is both writing and drawing, is a series of original graphic novels called Empowered. He describes the series as "an episodic 'sexy superhero comedy', mixing a twisted take on costumed crime-fighting, romance, and absurdist workplace humor with a strong dose of that 'manga flava'... and just a dash of the kinky." The first trade paper back was published by Dark Horse Comics in March 2007 after a slight delay, Volume Two was released in September 2007,[6] Volume Three in March 2008 and Volume Four was released towards the end of October 2008 after a delay of about a month or so.[7] Volume Five was released in late June 2009. Volume Six was released on September 21, 2010. The series is neither inked nor colored, but rather sourced directly from pencil drawings.

Drawing style

Warren makes very tight pencil layouts of the pages before they are inked, toned and colored.[8] According to Warren himself, everyone who saw the layouts said, to his chagrin, that they liked them better than the final colored pages. On Empowered he tried a new style, the pages are greyscale reproductions of pencil "layouts", and are neither inked nor toned. The layouts that he uses are cleaner and more tightened versions of his layouts for previous works.[8]

This pencil layout style is also seen on several of his Dirty Pair short stories, and in a pair of pages of Gen13 Magical Drama Queen Roxy, a Gen13 miniseries, where one of the characters starts a deconstructing/poststructuralist device that deconstructs the comic through all the stages of production: color, color guides, inked page, tight pencil layout, rough pencil layout and script.

Bibliography

Main article: Adam Warren bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ a b Interview: Adam Warren Archived 2016-11-06 at the Wayback Machine at About.com
  2. ^ Empowered profile at Dark Horse's website.
  3. ^ http://www.kubertschool.edu/alumni.html Kubert School alumni page
  4. ^ Bubblegum Crisis profile at Dark Horse's Website
  5. ^ "SSX 3 Adam Warren Desktop Gallery 02". MerquryCity. Retrieved June 19, 2006.
  6. ^ Kean, Benjamin Ong Pang (July 20, 2006). "SDCC '06: Adam Warren Talks Empowered". Newsarama. Retrieved August 22, 2006. [dead link]
  7. deviantART
  8. ^
    Comicon.com. Archived from the original
    on 2011-06-05. Retrieved July 24, 2008. Well, for one thing, Empowered is nominally a superhero title, yet it's drawn by a clearly manga-influenced artist...The unique thing about Empowered's artwork is that it's reproduced directly from my very, very tight penciled pages...grayscale repro of this type is tricky, but can be highly rewarding, I've found...In fact, Empowered's pages are just a tightened-up and cleaner version of how I've been doing my (notoriously tight) layouts for the last decade or so. Somewhat to my chagrin, almost everyone (or, at least, every artist) who's seen my so-called "layouts" has said that they like them better than my published, inked-and-toned/colored pages...and roll with an extra-tight incarnation of my layout technique for this and other future work.

References

External links

Interviews

Preceded by Fantastic Four writer
2002 		Succeeded by
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