David Hine

Last updated

David Hine
DavidHine2015.jpg
Born1956
NationalityBritish
Area(s)Writer, Artist
Notable works
Silent War , The Bulletproof Coffin

David Hine (born 1956) is an English comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Silent War and The Bulletproof Coffin.

Contents

Career

Hine has been working in comics since the early 1980s. For Crisis , he drew the series Sticky Fingers (written by Myra Hancock) in 1989, and wrote and drew a number of short pieces in 1990 and 1991. For 2000 AD he drew Tao De Moto in 1991 (again written by Hancock) and wrote and drew the futuristic police series Mambo from 1994 to 1996.

He wrote and drew the black and white horror comic Strange Embrace, originally published as a mini-series by Atomeka Press in 1993, and later as a collected graphic novel by Active Images in the US, reprinted again as a colour series by Image Comics. [1] [2]

Hine at SDCC 2009 DavidHine SDCC2009.png
Hine at SDCC 2009

Hine is currently best known as a writer on Marvel Comics titles, like X-Men: The 198 and Civil War: X-Men . [3] One of his projects there was Silent War a six-issue mini-series featuring the Inhumans with art by Frazer Irving. [4] [5] Hine has also written a number of What if? stories which look at alternate outcomes to stories like Annihilation [6] and Deadly Genesis .

He was also the writer of Spawn for Image comics in issues #151–184. [7] He wrote his own manga series Poison Candy for Tokyopop [8] and the Two-Face issue of The Joker's Asylum for DC. [9] [10] [11] He wrote four issues of The Brave and the Bold with artist Doug Braithwaite, before J. Michael Straczynski started his run on the title [12] [13] [14] and he wrote the Deathstroke one-shot, which was part of the Faces of Evil series which deals with the aftermath of Final Crisis . [15] He wrote the Arkham Asylum one-shot for the "Batman: Battle for the Cowl" event. His one-shot lead to a mini series called "Arkham Reborn", the events lead into David Hine taking over Detective Comics continuing the story.

Hine has written two series for indie publisher, Radical Comics, FVZA: The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency , [16] with art by Roy Allan Martinez, Wayne Nichols, Kinsun Loh and Jerry Choo. [17] and "Ryder on the Storm" with art by Wayne Nichols, Hugo Petrus, Feigiap Chong and Sansan Saw. From Image Comics, The Bulletproof Coffin with artist Shaky Kane. [18]

Hine has co-created Spider-Man Noir for Marvel Comics with Fabrice Sapolsky and artist Carmine Di Giandomenico and has produced graphic novels Lip Hook and The Bad Bad Place, with artist Mark Stafford. He is currently working with Brian Haberlin on a series of independent projects including The Marked and Sonata for Shadowline/Image.

In 2018 Hine wrote The Torture Garden for the Judge Dredd Megazine , and later its sequel, Deliverance.

Bibliography

Notes

  1. David Hine wants to lock you in his "Strange Embrace", Comic Book Resources, 28 March 2007
  2. Strange Embrace and Other Nightmares, Comic Book Resources, 27 August 2008
  3. Two Mean Mothers: An Interview with David Hine Archived 23 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Comics Bulletin, 24 August 2006
  4. David Hine: Talking Silent War Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine , Newsarama, 16 November 2006
  5. David Hine, Part II: Talking Silent War Archived 23 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Comics Bulletin, 19 February 2007
  6. Annihilation Makes Things Civil: Hine talks "What If? Annihilation", Comic Book Resources, 5 October 2007
  7. David Hine, Part I: Spawning Some New Terror Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Comics Bulletin, 15 February 2007
  8. Trying Poison Candy with David Hine [ permanent dead link ], Newsarama, 11 September 2007
  9. David Hine: Two-Faced Creator Reveals More About Batman Series Archived 11 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Comics Bulletin, 9 May 2008
  10. David Hine – Telling the Tale of Two-Face, Newsarama, 19 June 2008
  11. The Joker’s Asylum, Part V: Two-Face, Comic Book Resources, 1 July 2008
  12. David Hine on his Brave and the Bold Arc, Newsarama, 27 August 2008
  13. David Hine: He's Brave as well as Bold Archived 21 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine , Comics Bulletin, 29 August 2008
  14. David Hine: Becoming Braver & Bolder, Comic Book Resources, 8 September 2008
  15. David Hine on Deathstroke's Return, Comic Book Resources, 12 November 2008
  16. Zombies, Vampires and U.S. History?? David Hine on 'FVZA', Newsarama, 19 March 2009
  17. FVZA Issue #1 Sells Out at Distributor Level
  18. Rodrik, Alex (12 May 2010). "David Hine & Shaky Kane: Opening the Bulletproof Coffin". Comics Bulletin. Archived from the original on 19 May 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  19. Radical Publishing & EerieTube Ask "Are You Infected?"

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Farmer</span> British comic book artist

Mark Farmer is a British comic book artist. He is best known as an inker, often working with Alan Davis.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andy Lanning</span> English comic book writer and inker

Andy Lanning is an English comic book writer and inker, known for his work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and for his collaboration with Dan Abnett.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sean Phillips</span> British comic book artist, born 1965

Sean Phillips is a British comic book artist, best known for his collaborations with Ed Brubaker on comics including Sleeper, Incognito, the Criminal series of comics, Fatale, The Fade Out, and Kill or Be Killed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John McCrea (comics)</span> Comic book artist from Northern Ireland

John McCrea is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis.

Guy Davis is an American creature designer, concept artist, illustrator and storyboard artist who has worked on film, television, comic book and video game projects. He is known for his collaborations with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, including the television series The Strain (2014–17) and the films Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015) and The Shape of Water (2017). Beforehand, Davis was the regular artist for the Hellboy spinoff comic B.P.R.D. (2003–2010), as well as the artist behind his own creator-owned comic The Marquis (2009).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Jenkins (writer)</span> British comic book writer

Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer, screenwriter, novelist, and narrative director. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, Jenkins had a big part shaping the characters of the company, helping via the Marvel Knights imprint to propel Marvel from Chapter 11 bankruptcy before choosing to focus on independent publications. He is also noted for his groundbreaking narrative work in the field of video games, and is recognized as one of the world's preeminent "cross-media" creators for his work across such multiple media as animation, video games, comic books, and film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Avon Oeming</span> American comic book creator

Michael Avon Oeming is an American comic book creator, both as an artist and writer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andy Diggle</span> British comic book writer

Andrew Diggle is a British comic book writer and former editor of the weekly anthology series 2000 AD. He is best known for his work on Adam Strange and Green Arrow for DC Comics as well as his creator-owned series The Losers and a run on Hellblazer for DC's Vertigo imprint, and for his stints on Thunderbolts and Daredevil at Marvel. Other credits include Gamekeeper for Virgin Comics, written by Diggle on the basis of a concept created by Guy Ritchie, a three-year run on Robert Kirkman's Thief of Thieves at Image, several short arcs written for IDW Publishing's Doctor Who series and two James Bond mini-series for Dynamite.

Ian Edginton is a British comic book writer, known for his work on such titles as X-Force, Scarlet Traces, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Leviathan.

Rob Williams is a Welsh comics writer, working mainly for 2000 AD. He is currently writing books for DC Comics and its Vertigo imprint.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trevor Hairsine</span> British comic artist

Trevor Hairsine is a British comics artist, whose detailed style has been compared to that of Bryan Hitch.

Phil Winslade is a British comic book artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liam Sharp</span> British comic book artist (born 1968)

Liam Roger Sharp is a British comic book artist, writer, publisher, and co-founder/CCO of Madefire Inc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Higgins (comics)</span> English comic book artist and writer

John Higgins is an English comic book artist and writer. He did significant work for 2000 AD, and he has frequently worked with writer Alan Moore, most notably as colourist for Watchmen.

Lee Garbett is a British comic book artist born in the West Midlands. He has worked on British comics. As of February 2011, he is working freelance after a period of exclusivity with DC Comics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christos Gage</span> American comic book writer

Christos N. Gage is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. He is known for his work on the TV series Daredevil, Hawaii Five-0, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Numbers and the films The Breed and Teenage Caveman. In the comics industry, he has done considerable work on the titles Angel & Faith, Avengers Academy, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Superior Spider-Man, Spider-Geddon and has written tie-in books for the "Civil War" and "World War Hulk" storylines.

Laurence Campbell is a British comics artist best known for his work in 2000 AD, but he has also recently received attention from his work for Marvel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fred Van Lente</span> American writer

Fred Van Lente from Chagrin Falls, Ohio is an American writer, primarily of comic books and graphic novels.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mike Perkins</span> British comic book artist

Michael Perkins is a British comic book artist known for his inking work and full art duties on comic books such as Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America, Ruse, Stephen King's The Stand and The Swamp Thing.

Dan Abnett has been writing comics and novels since the mid-1980s.

References

Preceded by Detective Comics writer
2010
Succeeded by
Preceded by Azrael writer
2010–2011
Succeeded by
n/a
Preceded by Batman writer
2011
Succeeded by