Klaus Janson

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Klaus Janson
Inkwell Award
The Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Award (2010)
Inkwell Award for Favorite Inker (2013)

Klaus Janson (born January 23, 1952)

comics artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies. While he is best known as an inker
, Janson has frequently worked as a penciller and colorist.

Early life

Klaus Janson was born in Coburg, West Germany.[3] He emigrated to the United States in 1957, settling with his family in Connecticut,[3] where he lived in Bridgeport from 1957 to 1972.[4] When he was young, his Spider-Man collection was thrown away by his mother. Janson then became interested in the premiering character Daredevil, who wasn't popular among Janson's friends.[5]

Career

After a short stint as assistant to

Frank Miller began increasingly relying on Janson for the artwork, sending him looser and looser pencils beginning with #173.[8] By issue #185, Miller had virtually relinquished his role as Daredevil's artist, and was providing only rough layouts for Janson to pencil, ink, and color.[8]
After Miller's departure, Janson drew the series by himself for four issues.

Janson began working for

Batman: Black and White #3 (August 1996).[7] Janson drew part of the "Cataclysm" crossover as well.[16]

Janson and writer

Black Panther. His other work includes Batman: Death and the Maidens,[20] World War Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, Logan's Run, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In 2010, he inked Romita Jr.'s pencils on The Avengers.[7] and in 2014 the two artists collaborated on Superman.[21] Janson was one of the artists on The Dark Knight III: The Master Race which was co-written by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello.[22]

Janson has taught sequential storytelling at the School of Visual Arts in New York City since the 1990s[23] and has written both The DC Comics Guide to Pencilling Comics and The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics. Janson also holds annual seminars at Marvel for the editorial staff and their up-and-coming artists, and taught short courses on comics storytelling for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.[6]

In 2015, Janson was the Guest of Honor at the 2015 Inkwell Awards Awards Ceremony at HeroesCon.[24]

Awards

Bibliography

Image

  • Sacred Creatures #1–8 (2018)

Atlas/Seaboard Comics

  • Wulf the Barbarian #1–2 (1975)

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

References

  1. ^ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Iola, Wisconsin. Archived from the original on February 18, 2011.
  2. ISBN 978-1600610226
    . The Insider's Guide To Creating Comics Klaus Janson.
  3. ^ a b "Klaus Janson". Lambiek Comiclopedia. February 18, 2011. Archived from the original on September 23, 2012. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  4. Connecticut Historical Society. Archived from the original
    on September 27, 2007.
  5. ^ introduction to "Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson Omnibus"
  6. ^ a b "Storytelling for Comics Artists". Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art. 2010. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. After a short stint as assistant to Dick Giordano in the early 1970s, Klaus Janson went freelance, working for several comics publishers as writer, penciler, inker and colorist.
  7. ^ a b c d Klaus Janson at the Grand Comics Database
  8. ^ a b Cordier, Philippe (April 2007). "Seeing Red: Dissecting Daredevil's Defining Years". Back Issue! (21). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 33–60.
  9. ^ Addiego, Frankie (December 2013). "Superman #400". Back Issue! (69). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 68–70.
  10. ^ Greenberger, Robert (August 2017). "It Sounded Like a Good Idea at the Time: A Look at the DC Challenge!". Back Issue! (98). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 37–38.
  11. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9
    . It is arguably the best Batman story of all time. Written and drawn by Frank Miller (with inspired inking by Klaus Janson and beautiful watercolors by Lynn Varley), Batman: The Dark Knight revolutionized the entire genre of the super hero.
  12. ISBN 978-1465424563
    . Dennis O'Neil stepped out of his editorial role once again to chronicle a Batman adventure for Detective Comics first annual. Illustrated by Klaus Janson, Batman and Talia al Ghul hunted for the Penguin.
  13. ^ Manning "1990s" in Dougall, p. 186: "Grant Morrison stepped up to the plate to pen [Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight's] next five-issue storyline, illustrated by Klaus Janson."
  14. ^ Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 259: "'Knightfall' was a nineteen-part crossover event that passed through the pages of...the Showcase '93 Two-Face feature scripted by Doug Moench and drawn by Klaus Janson."
  15. ^ Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 267: "Fans were also treated to a companion special entitled Batman-Spawn...by writers Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, and Alan Grant, and artist Klaus Janson."
  16. ^ Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 283: "The seventeen-part 'Cataclysm' storyline showed a Gotham City devastated by an earthquake."
  17. ISBN 978-0756641238
    . Linus 'Microchip' Lieberman first appeared in this issue by writer Mike Baron and artist Klaus Janson.
  18. ISBN 978-0756692360
    . Long-time Spidey villain Electro was the focus of a three-part tale written by J. M. DeMatteis and illustrated by Klaus Janson.
  19. ^ Cowsill "1990s" in Gilbert (2012), p. 224: "The new Spidey title felt fresh and exciting...Issue #0, written and penciled by Dan Jurgens, with Klaus Janson inking, provided a quick recap for latecomers."
  20. ^ Manning "2000s" in Dougall, p. 269: "Writer Greg Rucka and artist Klaus Janson created this series that delved into the family tree of [Ra's al Ghul]."
  21. ^ Khouri, Andy (February 4, 2014). "Geoff Johns Returns To Superman In Collaboration With John Romita Jr". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on February 6, 2014.
  22. ^ Wheeler, Andrew (July 9, 2015). "Andy Kubert and Klaus Janson Join The Master Race (The Comic)". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on August 14, 2015.
  23. ^ a b "Our Faculty: Klaus Janson". School of Visual Arts. n.d. Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  24. ^ a b Almond, Bob (June 10, 2015). "Guest of Honor Klaus Janson to speak at the 2015 Inkwell Awards Ceremony during Heroes Con". Inkwell Awards. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016.
  25. ^ Jenneguin (manga critic), Jean-Paul. "Toriyama Exhibition Essays: AKIRA TORIYAMA AND FRANCE". Kanzenshuu: The Perfect Dragon Ball Collection. Retrieved February 6, 2023. In November 1989, I was a guest lecturer at the First Anglo-Saxon Comics Festival in Villeneuve-d'Ascq,... a suburb of Lille, a city in the north of France. Two fans of American comics had thought the town would be the ideal location for a comics festival focusing on American and British comics, as Villeneuve is very close to Britain.
  26. ^ MacDonald, Heidi (August 30, 2010). "2010 Harvey Award winners". Comics Beat. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015.
  27. ^ Almond, Bob (January 23, 2011). "2010 Winners". Inkwell Awards. Archived from the original on March 19, 2016.
  28. San Diego Comic-Con International. 2013. Archived
    from the original on May 8, 2015.
  29. ^ Seifert, Mark (September 7, 2013). "Saga Wins Big At 2013 Harvey Awards, Plus Complete List Of Winners". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on September 9, 2013. Archive requires scrolldown
  30. ^ Almond, Bob (June 12, 2013). "2013 Winners". Inkwell Awards. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016.
  31. ^ "Saga & Peanuts Top 2016 Harvey Awards Winners, One Publisher Major Shut Out". Newsarama. September 6, 2016. Archived from the original on September 7, 2016.

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