In May 1993 he became one of the early Vertigo Comics artists by illustrating (with assists from Paul Peart and Sean Harrison Scoffield) the entire 16-issue run of Kid Eternity (1993–1994). His later work with Vertigo included the covers for twenty-three of the twenty-five issues of the first The Invisibles series and also returning to Hellblazer (switching from artwork and covers to just covers after around twenty issues) between 1995 and 1998. He drew three issues of Shade, the Changing Man (1994), the one-shot Hell Eternal (1995), and the miniseries The Minx (1998–1999). Phillips penciled four issues of the final Invisibles series between 1999 and 2000, and produced covers for the Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood miniseries. In 1999, he inked Michael Lark's pencils on Scene of the Crime — written by Ed Brubaker, a writer Phillips would collaborate with a number of times over the following years. In 2001, Phillips and John Bolton illustrated a Vertigo three-issue miniseries called User, written by Devin Grayson. The series explores "sexual identity and online role-playing in the text-based MUDs of the nineties."[4]User was re-released as a hardcover by Image in 2017.
Phillips moved on to Wildstorm for a long run on WildC.A.T.s (issues #8–28, 2000–2001) with Joe Casey before teaming up Brubaker on Sleeper (2003–2005).
On 9 April 2011, Phillips was one of 62 comics creators who appeared at the IGN stage at the Kapow! Comic Convention in London to set two Guinness World Records, the Fastest Production of a Comic Book, and Most Contributors to a Comic Book. With Guinness officials on hand to monitor their progress, writer Mark Millar began work at 9 a.m. scripting a 20-page black and white Superior comic book, with Phillips and the other artists — including Dave Gibbons, Frank Quitely, John Romita Jr., Jock,[11]Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Olivier Coipel, Duncan Fegredo, Simon Furman, David Lafuente, John McCrea, and Liam Sharp[12] — all drawing a panel each, appearing on stage throughout the day to work on the pencils, inks, and lettering, with regular Superior artist Leinil Yu creating the book's front cover. The book was completed in 11 hours, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds, and was published through Icon on 23 November 2011, with all royalties being donated to Yorkhill Children's Foundation.[11]
Phillips and Ed Brubaker launched their Fatale series at Image Comics in January 2012. The series was initially announced as a twelve-issue maxi-series but was upgraded to an ongoing title in November 2012.[14] Jesse Schedeen of IGN stated that "You can't go wrong with a Brubaker/Phillips collaboration. Even so, Fatale is making a strong case for being the best of their projects."[15]
In October 2013, Phillips and Brubaker signed a five-year contract to produce comics exclusively for Image. Under the terms of the deal, Image will publish any comic they bring to them without having to pitch it to them first.[16] In 2019, Brubaker and Phillips signed another five-year contract with Image to produce comics exclusively for that publisher. As Phillips explained, "[W]e get to do whatever we want! We don’t have to pitch projects to Image, we don’t have an editor or designer, we can make as many or few books as we want. We get to choose format, paper stock, and everything else to do with our books."[3]
Personal life
Phillips' son Jacob Phillips is also a professional comics creator, having worked as a colorist on his father's comics[3] and branching out into illustrating his own series.[17]
Art style
Phillips is known for the different art styles he has employed over the years, from clean-line superhero work, to scratchy, noir-inspired black-and-line work, to painted comics.[3][18]
↑ Keilly, Karl (3 August 2010). "CCI: Spotlight On Sean Phillips". CBR. Best-selling artist Sean Phillips sat down with long time friend, Hellboy artist Duncan Fegredo, and discussed his three decades in the comics industry and how it took 25 years to break into the mainstream.
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