Greg Land
Greg Land | |
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Born | 1956 |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Penciller |
Notable works | Sojourn Ultimate Fantastic Four Uncanny X-Men X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong |
Greg Land (born 1956) is an American
Career
Greg Land first got a job with an independent publisher as the artist for StormQuest after advertising himself at a Mid-Ohio Con comic convention.[
Later, Land began to work at CrossGen Comics on Sojourn. The series ran from July 2001 through May 2004, for a total of 34 issues.[1]
After CrossGen went out of business, Land went on to work at
In 2008, Land illustrated Uncanny X-Men #500.[4] From then until December 2011 he would illustrate several sporadic sets of issues, totaling 22 in all, his last being issue #544.[5] During this same period he also illustrated issue #210 and 235–237 of X-Men: Legacy.[6]
In 2012, Land illustrated issues #5–8 and 11–12 of the relaunched Uncanny X-Men.
Plagiarism accusations
Land has been accused of going beyond the accepted bounds of
Commenting on Land's work on
Land has also been accused of directly swiping art from other comics artists, and is considered "notorious" for tracing his art from other sources[11] to the point where some fans make a hobby of finding the original sources Land traced for his art.[12]
Land's art for Marvel's
Bibliography
DC Comics
- Action Comics #743 (1998)
- Birds of Prey #1–6, 8–10 (full pencils); #13 (along with Patrick Zircher) (1999–2000)
- Birds of Prey: Black Canary – Batgirl (one shot) (1998)
- JLA #15 (along with Howard Porter) (1998)
- New Titans Annual #11 (1995)
- Nightwing vol. 1 #1–4 (1995)
- Nightwing vol. 2 #41–43, 45–46, 48–50, 52, 54–56, Annual #1 (2000–2001)
- Nightwing/Huntress #1–4 (1998)
- Supergirl vol. 4 #11–12, Annual 2 (1997)
Marvel Comics
- Avenging Spider-Man #4 (2012)
- Astonishing X-Men vol. 2 #13 (2018)
- Free Comic Book Day X-Men: Pixies and Demons (2008)
- Future Imperfect #1–5 (2015)
- Incredible Hulk #709–713 (2017–2018)
- Iron Man vol. 5 #1–9 (2013)
- Mighty Avengersvol. 2 #1–4 (2013–2014)
- Ultimate Fantastic Four #21–32 (2005–2006)
- Ultimate Power (2006–2008)
- Uncanny X-Men #500–503, 508–511, 515–517, 520–521, 530–531, 540–542 (2008–2011)
- Uncanny X-Men vol. 3 #6–8, 11–12 (2012)
- Uncanny X-Men vol. 4 #1–5, 11–15 (2016–17)
- Weapon X vol. 3 #1–4 (2017)
- X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong(2005)
- X-Men Unlimited #13 (1996)
- X-Men: Legacy #235–237 (2010)
Other publishers
- StormQuest #1 (1994) (Caliber Press)
- Sojourn #1–6, 8–11, 13–16, 18–20, 22–25, 27–29, 31–33 (2001–2004) (CrossGen)
References
- ^ a b Stevens, Bill (May 21, 2012). "Marvel artist draws the Avengers and more in his man cave home in Trinity". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
- ^ "Greg Pak talks "X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong"". Comic Book Resources. August 20, 2004. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
- ^ a b "Greg Land". Lambiek Comiclopedia. January 18, 2008. Archived from the original on February 24, 2008.
- ^ George, Richard (July 16, 2008). "Uncanny X-Men #500 Preview". IGN. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
- ^ Serafino, Jason (September 23, 2011). "Marvel Ends "Uncanny X-Men" With Issue 544". Complex Networks. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
- ^ Greg Land at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Adams, Sam; Murray, Noel; Phipps, Keith; Pierce, Leonard (July 20, 2009). "Reinventing the pencil: 21 artists who changed mainstream comics (for better or worse)". The A.V. Club. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
- CBR.com. Retrieved June 23, 2009.
- ^ "Greg Land's "talented" artwork of the Thing". Reddit. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
- ^ Johnston, Rich (June 3, 2012). "The Many Faces Of Greg Land's Ben Grimm". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
- ^ a b Baker-Whitelaw, Gavia (September 2, 2020). "Marvel artist Greg Land accused of plagiarism in new 'Aliens' comic". The Daily Dot. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- ^ a b Baculi, Spencer (September 4, 2020). "Marvel Comics and Greg Land Accused of Tracing Dark Horse Aliens Artist Tristan Jones Work for Aliens Omnibus Cover". Bounding Into Comics. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- ^ Holmes, Helen (September 2, 2020). "Marvel Illustrator Greg Land Once Again Accused of Plagiarism". The New York Observer. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- ^ Johnston, Rich (September 3, 2020). "Separated At Birth: Tristan Jones and Greg Land on Aliens". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
External links
- Greg Land at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Greg Land. Comic Art Community Gallery.