Latest Comic Guest Announcement - JESUS MERINO

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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Jesus Merino

 

Attending: Friday, Saturday and Sunday

 

Artist: Superman; Justice Society of America: Team 7

INITIALLY working alongside fellow Spanish artist Carlos Pacheco, Jesus Merino made his US debut in 1998 inking the 12 issues of Avengers Forever for Marvel.

Finishing 11 Pacheco-pencilled issues of Fantastic Four followed as did more collaborations with his Spanish colleague. Together Merino and Pacheco – who were also in increasing demand for covers – then moved to DC where they worked on 2002’s JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice graphic novel as well as on the Arrowsmith six-parter issued under the Batman publisher’s WildStorm/Cliffhanger imprint in 2003. After that the duo’s output included a five-chapter Superman/Batman serial, the first three issues of 2005’s relaunched Green Lantern and 13 issues of Superman between 2006 and 2009.

While continuing to work with Pacheco, in 2008 Merino embarked on a return to his roots. He illustrated Action Comics #865 as he sought to establish himself in America as a penciller, which was where his career had started in Spain – between 1996 and 1998 he had drawn three miniseries for Linea Laberinto, an imprint of Planeta De Agostini, the publisher best known for reprinting Marvel comics in Spain.

Merino’s first major solo project was Justice Society of America for which he pencilled (and inked) two five-issue runs in 2009-10. After that he illustrated a two-part Superman/Batman serial before joining fellow artist George Perez as the primary pencillers on the 2011 relaunch of Superman. Although his collaborator stopped contributing art after just two issues Merino drew all but one of the title’s first 11.

After that came six of the nine issues of 2012’s Team 7 before a flurry of fill-ins led him to DC’s weekly comic, The New 52: Futures End, to which he has been a contributor since 2014.

[chugs]

Well Showmasters you finally got Jesus to come to a convention. Kudos.