Mike Hawthorne

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Mike Hawthorne is an

Hawthorne has self-published multiple books through Kickstarter, like his art books All City, Little/RED, and Warm Ups, and instructional and educational manuals, The Drawing Cheat Codes and Anatomy Guide. He is also a professor at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design.

Artistic Style

Hawthorne's style of artwork combines the unique and creative comic book form with the accuracy and attention to detail of realism. He has a background in anatomy and figure drawing, and anatomic correctness is always present in his art. He is also praised for his particular style of drawing cityscapes and clouds.

Cinematic Approach to Comics

Hawthorne has a gift for cinematic storytelling in comics, valuing the ability to tell a story without any dialogue. His talent to portray a combination of emotions in one illustration shows his masterful use of visual storytelling. He says to picture yourself as the cameraperson, and utilizes other cinematography framing techniques like long shot, medium shot, close-up, extreme close-up, worm's eye view and bird's eye view. He describes it as the combination of "the characters acting, the way you shoot the character, the way you draw the character into the panel, and how the panel plays into that" and how you can incorporate all of those pieces to create a uniform and cohesive story with very little or no dialogue at all. That way, the dialogue adds to the story rather than carrying it.

Personal life

Hawthorne lives in

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• ISBN 1-60010-497-5
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References

Inline citations

1. ^ ^{a b} Haber, Gary (May 25, 2016). "York artist who draws 'Deadpool' gives back to school that helped him". York Daily Record. Retrieved March 24, 2018.

General references

• Tramountanas, George A. (November 8, 2006). "Getting Freaky with Vertigo's Un-Men". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
• "Unearthing Un-Men: Mike Hawthorne on His Vertigo Series". Newsarama, November 8, 2006
• "Talking About The Un-Men With Mike Hawthorne". Newsarama, September 14, 2007
• Arrant, Chris (January 5, 2011). "TArtist Mike Hawthorne Hits The Road With Conan". Newsarama.
• Arrant, Chris (January 31, 2012). "Conan Artist Debuts New Graphic Novel... in French!" Newsarama.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mike Hawthorne.

• Hawthorne's blog
• The Mike Hawthorne Sketchbook
• Mike Hawthorne On Putting It All Online, Newsarama, October 5, 2007
• Mike Hawthorne's webcomic, "Raising Crazy" Oct.23, 2011