Bryan Hitch
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Bryan Hitch is a British comic book artist, best known for his work on titles such as Wildstorm's Stormwatch (vol. 2) and The Authority (both together with writer Warren Ellis), DC's JLA (with writer Mark Waid) and the Ultimate Marvel titles The Ultimates and The Ultimates 2 (with writer Mark Millar). Long before any of that, as a spotty seventeen year old in the 1980s[1], he drew his first pencils on Marvel UK's Action Force. He'd go on to do pencils for various Transformers issues and covers, as well as the first five issues of Death's Head. He's been cheerfully disparaging of his early artwork.[2] (Remember that his early artwork bloody looks like THIS)
He currently employs a widescreen, photo-realistic drawing style. We got to see this contemporary style used on our favourite robots when he was hired by Titan to provide the cover for the hardcover edition of their End of the Road collection.
The Michael Bay films are things he's an admitted fan of.[3] In an issue of his and Mark Millar's Fantastic Four, Reed Richards's giant anti-Galactus robot nods to both Power Rangers and Transformers (with a few features that are just prime). [4]
He almost became a priest, until deciding that his lack of belief in God didn't quite gel with the job description.[5]
Artwork
Comic interiors
- The Legacy of Unicron!, Part 6 (Marvel UK #151)
- Wrecking Havoc (Marvel UK #172-173)
Comic covers
- Marvel UK #154
- Marvel UK #155
- Marvel UK #160
- Marvel UK #161
- Marvel UK #172
- Collected Comics #8
- Collected Comics #9
- Collected Comics #10
- Transformers: End of the Road hardcover (Titan collection)
References
- ↑ Bryan Hitch's Ultimate Comics Studio. Impact Books
- ↑ From his twitter account: 6 Nov 2011: ""@THEBRYANHITCH are you the same Hitch from the original Death's Head?" I am! Terrible art, yes?" and 25th July 2012 on DH fanart: "better than the one I did!"
- ↑ "I want another Transformers movie. Stop it. Look, bloody stop laughing, alright? Fuck off, I liked them. Oh there's no talking to you."
- ↑ "[...] actually that was much a nod to power rangers on my part as transformers."
- ↑ CBR – NYCC: Bryan Hitch Spotlight
