David Finch (comics)

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David Finch
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Finch at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 10, 2010
Area(s)Writer, Penciller, Inker
Notable works
 Batman: The Dark Knight
The New Avengers
Batman
Awards2009 Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Artist
Spouse(s)Meredith Finch
Official website

David Finch is a comics artist known for his work on Top Cow Productions' Cyberforce , as well as numerous subsequent titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, such as The New Avengers , Moon Knight , Ultimatum , and Brightest Day . [1] He has provided album cover art for the band Disturbed, and done concept art for films such as Watchmen . [1]

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Career

David Finch started his comics career drawing Top Cow Productions' Cyberforce , [2] after series creator and studio founder Marc Silvestri ceased his run as writer/artist on that book. Finch co-created Ascension with Matt "Batt" Banning. [3] He later worked on the first three issues of Aphrodite IX with David Wohl. [2]

In 2003, Finch returned to comics for a year-long arc on Ultimate X-Men with writer Brian Michael Bendis. Following that, the duo moved on to The Avengers , where they destroyed Marvel's premiere superhero team [4] and then relaunched it as The New Avengers featuring a radically different cast. [5] On Avengers, David's presence doubled sales with starting with his first issue. [6]

Finch worked on the revamped Moon Knight series with novelist Charlie Huston [2] His run on Moon Knight skyrocketed this title into the main Marvel universe and saw it sell over five times the titles previous releases. [6] he then illustrated Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America #4, featuring Spider-Man. This was followed by the Ultimatum limited series for the Ultimate Marvel line. In addition to interior comics work, he has drawn several covers including those of "World War Hulk"; X-Men #200 and the "X-Men: Messiah Complex" storyline; and the X-Infernus miniseries. [2]

Finch illustrated the cover to Disturbed's 2008 album, Indestructible , as well as doing concept design for the film adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen .

In January 2010, Finch left Marvel and became a DC Comics exclusive artist. [7] Finch collaborated with Grant Morrison on Batman #700 (Aug. 2010) an oversized anniversary issue. [8] In July 2010 DC announced that Finch would be writing and drawing a new ongoing series entitled Batman: The Dark Knight , the first story arc of which deals with the detective's more supernatural cases. [9] [10] The series launched with a January 2011 cover date, [11] but was relaunched in November of that same year as part of the company-wide reboot The New 52. [12]

In July 2012, as part of the San Diego Comic-Con, Finch was one of six artists who, along with DC co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, participated in the production of "Heroic Proportions", an episode of the Syfy reality television competition series Face Off , in which special effects were tasked to create a new superhero, with Finch and the other DC artists on hand to help them develop their ideas. The winning entry's character, Infernal Core by Anthony Kosar, was featured in Justice League Dark #16 (March 2013), [13] [14] which was published January 30, 2013. [15] The episode premiered on January 22, 2013, as the second episode of the fourth season. [16]

Finch and Geoff Johns launched a new Justice League of America series [2] [17] and the Forever Evil limited series in 2013. [18] Finch and his wife, Meredith Finch, took over the creative duties on Wonder Woman beginning with issue #36 (Jan. 2015), their first collaborative effort. [19]

As part of the DC Rebirth relaunch of DC's titles, Finch teamed with writer Tom King to launch the Batman vol. 3 series in June 2016. [20] [21]

In 2020, Finch drew the 1950s variant cover for The Joker 80th anniversary 100-page super spectacular #1 (June 2020). That July, Marvel Comics announced that it had acquired the publishing rights to the Alien and Predator franchises, for which Finch created two teaser posters. [22]

Influences

Finch was influenced by illustrator Gerald Brom. [23]

Personal life

Finch lives in Ontario. [24] He has a wife named Meredith, [25] and three sons. [26]

Awards

Finch won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Artist in 2009. [27]

In 2017, Finch and Tom King won an Eisner Award for the Best Short Story "Good Boy" in Batman Annual #1. [28]

Bibliography

Interior work

DC Comics

Image Comics

  • Aphrodite IX (full pencils): #0–2; (with Clarence Lansang): #3 (2000–2001)
  • Ascension (full pencils): #1–5; (among other artists): #6–11 (1997–1999)
  • Codename: Strikeforce #7 (1994)
  • Cyberforce #15–22, 24–29, 31, Annual #1 (1994–1997)
  • Darkness (pencil assists): #20–21; (full pencils): #39 (1999–2001)
  • Ripclaw (Wizard special edition) #½ (1995)
  • Tales of the Witchblade (with Billy Tan) #2 (1997)
Image Comics and DC Comics
Image Comics and Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

Cover work

Marvel Comics

DC Comics

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  3. ↑ "David Finch". Lambiek Comiclopedia. December 21, 2006. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ Manning, Matthew K.; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "2000s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 323. ISBN   978-0756641238. Writer Brian Michael Bendis would turn the Avengers' world on its end with this shocking new crossover event drawn by artist David Finch.{{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  6. 1 2 Batman: The Dark Knight Vol. 1 - Knight Terrors (The New 52) 2013. DC Comics
  7. ↑ Phegley, Kiel (December 5, 2010). "Exclusive: David Finch Signs with DC Comics". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016.
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  19. ↑ Campbell, Josie (July 1, 2014). "Meredith, David Finch Discuss Taking Wonder Woman More 'Mainstream'". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on November 18, 2014. Azzarello and Chiang hand over the keys to the Amazonian demigod's world to the just-announced husband-and-wife team of artist David Finch and writer Meredith Finch. Archive requires scrolldown
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  26. ↑ Wonder Woman Vol. 7: War-Torn 2016. DC Comics
  27. ↑ "2009 Nominees and Winners". Joe Shuster Awards. 2009. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  28. ↑ "DC Entertainment congratulates all the 2017 Eisner Award nominees and winners!". DC Comics. July 22, 2017. Archived from the original on June 28, 2018. Tom King and David Finch won Eisner Awards for their Best Short Story 'Good Boy' in Batman Annual #1.
Preceded by Cyberforce artist
1994–1997		Succeeded by
Preceded by The Avengers artist
2004–2005		Succeeded by
Preceded by
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 The New Avengers artist
2005–2006		Succeeded by
Preceded by
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 Batman: The Dark Knight artist
2011–2013		Succeeded by
Preceded by Wonder Woman vol. 4 artist
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