Artist Spotlight: Darwyn Cooke

Darwyn Cooke is responsible for one of my all time favorite comic stories,  DC: The New Frontier. His Animation art style explodes off every page he draws. After a failed go at comic books in his early career, Cooke went to Canada to work as a magazine art director before responding to an ad posted by Bruce Timm at Warner Bros. Animation. At WB, he worked as a storyboard artist on Batman: the Animated Series and Superman: the Animated Series before animating the title sequence for Batman Beyond. Soon after, Cooke returned to comics first with Batman: Ego for DC then doing a bit of freelance for Marvel. He worked as regular artist on Catwoman, giving her her modern costume, before becoming the regular artist on Will Eisner's The Spirit. His DC: The New Frontier was one of the first to be adapted as an animated movie in Warner Animations series of direct to DVD films. Renamed Justice League: The New Frontier, Cooke co-wrote the film and worked as art director. He is currently working on Before Watchmen: Minutemen for DC and  Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter for IDW.

Artist Spotlight: Bruce Timm

Today our spotlight is on Bruce Timm, the writer and artist behind the animated DC universe. Timm got his start in animation working on series like Blackstar, Flash Gordon, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe before moving on to work for the likes of  Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth Productions then he made the jump to Warner Bros. At Warner Bros he worked on Tiny Toon Adventures then, along with Eric Radomski, co-created the phenominal Batman: the Animated Series. His style was carried on to Superman: the Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and Justice League. Along with writer Paul Dini he created the character Harley Quinn. In comics, he and Dini won the Eisner Award for Batman Adventures: Mad Love and again the next year for  Batman Adventures Holiday Special. He is also a popular cover and pin-up artist and has done short stories featuring Black Canary and Conan the Barbarian.