Kendal, UK, 10th July 2014: The
Lakes International Comic Art Festival is pleased to announce artist
Bryan Hitch as its final major guest for its weekend-long event in Kendal, Cumbria in October - and the appointment of comic creator
Emma Vieceli as a Festival patron.
In an interview for
Cumbria Live,
online today, Bryan said: "It's the only show I'm going to do. I have
stopped doing conventions but I was persuaded, partly because I heard
about this festival's more European vibe."
Bryan has been a leading creative force in American comic books for over 25 years. Having worked on characters such as
GI Joe,
Transformers,
Superman and
The X-Men for 12 years, he then co-created
The Authority with
RED’s Warren Ellis.
Widely regarded as a game-changing series, ComicBookResources.com said “
The Authority
is the DNA of 98 per cent of the superhero comics published today!” For
his work, Bryan was labelled as the first ‘Widescreen’ comicbook
creator.
After working on DC Comic’s then best-selling
Justice League comics he and Mark Millar together created the ground-breaking Marvel series,
The Ultimates.
In that book, Hitch and Millar created a tonal template for modernizing
the classic Marvel characters known collectively as The Avengers for a
general audience and it’s a direction that all the Marvel movies have
since followed.
In July 2004 Joss Whedon, who would later write and direct
The Avengers, wrote of
The Ultimates;
“Hitch is one of the greatest artists of our day. You get the right mix
of writer, artist and characters, set ‘em loose and you get a book
that’s not only diverting, it’s necessary. That’s how good the
Ultimates is.”
In 2010 the
Los Angeles Times named
The Ultimates as
The Series of the Decade. Since that series, Bryan has continued to work
on a variety of key Marvel projects until 2011, when he created
America’s Got Powers with the British TV legend Jonathan Ross.
Real Heroes, his first solo creation, is published through Image Comics.
Outside comics, Bryan has worked on a number of film and television projects. In 2005, When Russell T. Davies revived
Doctor Who
for the BBC he invited Bryan to join him on the project. Instrumental
in helping to create the visual direction for the show, Hitch designed
the TARDIS set and numerous creatures, aliens and space ships.
Although uncredited, Damon Lindelof and JJ Abrams invited Bryan to work on the big screen relaunch of
Star Trek.
Unable to join the production full time, he consulted directly with
Abrams over key visual elements and contributed the design for Spock’s
space ship as seen in the finished movie.
Bryan is currently developing further projects both as sole creator, or as co-creator with Mark Millar and others.
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