American cartoonist John Paul Leon died Sunday, May 2 at the age of 49.
Known primarily for his work on Batman, whose twilight album
Batman Night Creature
had just been released with a script by Kurt Busiek, he had been battling cancer for fourteen years.
The sad news was relayed by its editor Chris Conroy.
Considered one of the best artists of recent years, John Paul Lenon, born April 26, 1972 in New York, started out in illustration at a very young age.
Freshly graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1994, he began his comic book career with a miniseries for Dark Horse Comics,
RoboCop: Prime Suspect
before working on Batman and the X-Men.
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His recent graphic reinterpretation of the "
dark knight
" has earned him a comparison with the best designers by a rave press.
Batman Creature of the Night
is set in 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts: "
The young Bruce Wainwright, namesake of the fictional character Bruce Wayne, sees his parents brutally slaughtered, as a cruelly ironic echo of the comic book hero Batman of whom he is. an avid reader. Distraught, Bruce is nevertheless eager to overcome his trauma but is pursued by a mysterious dark form coming to life. A shadow being who doesn't look far from ... a human bat!
»Summarizes the site of the Urban Comics editions.
Weakened by illness, John Paul Leon took more than two years to produce the critically acclaimed album. He joined the list of finalists for the Comics Prize of the ACBD (the Association of Comic Book Critics and Journalists), in 2020.
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