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Salvador Larroca (born 1964) is a Spanish comic book artist, primarily known for his work on various X-Men titles.

Career[link]

After several years of working as a cartographer, he began working as a comic artist at Marvel UK, the Britain-based imprint of Marvel Comics.^[1] Larroca was working at Marvel UK when he contributed to Dark Angel and Death's Head II. At some point, Larroca began to work on mainstream North American comics, such as DC Comics' Flash. Afterwards, Larroca did a three year run on Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider, during the mid 1990s. It was not until after his run on Ghost Rider, that Larroca would gain the exposure needed to become known as one of the most prominent comic book artists in The United States.

Following Marvel's experiment with the various "Heroes Reborn" titles, editor Bobbie Chase gave Larroca the task of penciling the return of Captain America, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and several other superheores, in the Heroes Return mini-series.^[2] After the departure of Alan Davis on Fantastic Four, Larroca was give the reins along with writer Chris Claremont. Larroca and Claremont had a three year long run on the title.^[3]

Larroca left the title penciling chores in the hands of new writer/penciler, Carlos Pacheco, while Larroca went on to do several issues of Uncanny X-Men, after the departure of Adam Kubert, who left to work on Ultimate X-Men. Larroca then proceeded to rejoin with writer Chris Claremont, on X-Treme X-Men. Larroca stayed on the title for twenty-four issues, at which point he was asked to work on the initial run of Marvel's new Tsunami imprint title, called Namor. Meanwhile Larroca worked on various mini-series projects, including Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra and Ultimate Elektra.^[4]

Larroca was asked to draw fill-in issues of Uncanny X-Men and X-Men. These issues led up to the "X-Men Reload" event, as the titles gained new writers, artists, and story direction. Larroca joined with writer Chuck Austen on X-Men. During his run of X-Men, Larroca took a side job drawing Spider-Man: House of M mini-series. Larroca was drawing X-Men, but with a new writer on the title, Peter Milligan. He left X-Men in June and is joining Warren Ellis on newuniversal, a remake of Marvel's New Universe.

Since 2008, Larroca has illustrated writer Matt Fraction's run on The Invincible Iron Man.

Bibliography[link]

Comics work (interior pencil art) includes:

Marvel[link]

• Avengers: The Initiative Annual #1 (2008)
• Cable #24 (1995)
• Eminem/Punisher (published on Marvel website; not for sale) (2009)
• Excalibur #107–110 (1997)
• Fantastic Four, vol. 3, #4–34 (1998–2000)
• Fantastic Four 2000 (2000)
• Fear Itself ("Iron Man") #7.3 (2011)
• Gambit and the X-Ternals, miniseries, #3-4 (1995)
• Generation X/Gen 13 (1997)
• Ghost Rider, vol. 3, #51-69, 72, 75-81 (1994–97)
• Heroes Reborn: The Return, miniseries, #1–4 (1997)
• Incredible Hulk Annual #20 (1994)
• Iron Man, vol. 1, #500-507 (2011)
• Iron Man, vol. 3, #15 (among other artists) (1999)
• Iron Man, vol. 5, #1-33, 500-515 (2008–12)
• Namor, miniseries, #1–6 (2003)
• Newuniversal, miniseries, #1–6 (2007)
• Psylocke & Archangel: Crimson Dawn, miniseries, #1-4 (1997)
• The Sensational Spider-Man Annual #1 (2007)
• Spider-Man: House of M, miniseries, #1–5 (2005)
• Stan Lee Meets Dr. Doom (2006)
• Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra, miniseries, #1–4 (2003)
• Ultimate Elektra, miniseries, #1–5 (2004–05)
• Ultimate Fallout, miniseries (Reed Richards)#4 (2011)
• Ultimate X-Men #88–93, Annual #2 (2006–08)
• Uncanny X-Men #387–392, 439–443, 487–491 (2000–07)
• X-Men, vol. 2, (then New X-Men) #69, 155–179, 182–187 (1997–2006)
• X-Men Unlimited (Kitty Pride) #36 (2002)
• X-Men: Declassified (among other artists) (2000)
• X-Treme X-Men #1–24, Annual 2001 (2001–03)

Other publishers[link]

• Dark Angel #11-16 (Marvel UK, 1993–94)
• Death's Head II #12-15 (Marvel UK, 1993–94)
• Flash #95-98 (full art); #99-100 (along with Carlos Pacheco) (DC, 1994–95)
• Speed Demon (Amalgam Comics, Marvel/DC, 1996)
• Stormwatch #18 (Image, 1995)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Salvador Larroca at the Comic Book DB
• Salvador Larroca in 'Guia del comic' profile/bibliography about the artist (Spanish)
• Salvador Larroca: Drawing to the X-Treme: interview the artist at The Pulse, around the time that he was working on X-Treme X-Men and Namor

Matt Fraction
Fraction at the Midtown Comics booth at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	The Invincible Iron Man The Immortal Iron Fist Casanova Uncanny X-Men
Awards	"Favourite Newcomer Writer" Eagle Award (2007) "Best New Series" Eisner Award (2009)
Official website

Matt Fritchman, better known by the pen name Matt Fraction,^[1] is an Eisner Award-winning American comic book writer, known for his work as the writer of The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist and Uncanny X-Men for Marvel Comics and Casanova for Image Comics.

Career[link]

Fraction wrote two columns for Comic Book Resources: "Poplife"^[2] and "The Basement Tapes",^[3] the latter with Joe Casey.

Fraction started creating comics with smaller publishers including AiT/Planet Lar and IDW Publishing. He became known early in his career for his creator-owned work on The Five Fists of Science and Casanova, before taking on a number of increasingly high-profile assignments for Marvel Comics.

Fraction teamed with Ed Brubaker for an acclaimed run on Marvel's The Immortal Iron Fist. The pair re-teamed on Uncanny X-Men for a short time, after which Fraction wrote the series solo until leaving it in 2011^[4]. He is currently writing The Mighty Thor and The Invincible Iron Man, the latter of which led to his consulting work on the set of the film Iron Man 2.^[5] He also wrote the Iron Man 2 video game that tied into that film sequel.^[6]

In 2011 Fraction wrote the event limited series Fear Itself, which was the central book of the crossover storyline of the same name.^[7][8] His next project is a late 2011 relaunch of Defenders with artist Terry Dodson^[9]

Personal life[link]

Fraction is married to Kelly Sue DeConnick, a comics writer and adapter of manga into English.^[10] They have two children.^[11]

Awards[link]

• 2007: "Favourite Newcomer Writer" Eagle Award
• 2009: Eisner Award for "Best New Series" for The Invincible Iron Man (shared with Salvador Larroca)^[12]
• 2010: Pen Center Literary Award for "Outstanding Body of Work"^[13]

Nominations[link]

• 2008 Eisner Award for "Best Single Issue" (or One-Shot) for The Sensational Spider-Man Annual (shared with Salvador Larroca).
• 2008 Eisner Award for "Best New Series" for The Immortal Iron Fist (shared with Ed Brubaker, David Aja and others)^[14]

Bibliography[link]

Early work[link]

Titles published by various American publishers include:

• AiT/Planet Lar:
  • Double Take #6-8 (with Andy Kuhn, 2001-2002) collected as The Annotated Mantooth! (tpb, 96 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-932051-05-8)
  • Last of the Independents (with Kieron Dwyer, graphic novel, tpb, 104 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-932051-14-7)
• 30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales #1-8: "Juarez or Lex Nova & The Case of the 400 Dead Mexican Girls" (with Ben Templesmith, IDW, 2004-2005)
  collected as 30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales (hc, 200 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-933239-11-5; tpb, 2005, ISBN 1-932382-78-X)
• Image:
  • Four Letter Worlds: "Fate" (with Kieron Dwyer, graphic novel, tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-58240-439-9)
  • 24Seven vol.1: "Static" (with Frazer Irving, graphic novel, tpb, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-636-7)
  • The Five Fists of Science (with Steven Sanders, graphic novel, tpb, 112 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-605-7)
  • Casanova (with Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, 2006-2008) collected as:
    • Luxuria (collects #1-7, hc, 144 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-58240-689-8; tpb, 2008, ISBN 1-58240-897-1)
    • Gula (collects #8-14, hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-58240-866-1)

Marvel/Icon Comics[link]

Titles published by Marvel and its Icon imprint include:

• X-Men:
  • X-Men Unlimited v2 #9: "Dead Man Walking" (with Sam Kieth, 2005)
  • X-Men: Divided We Stand #1: "Migas" (with Jamie McKelvie, 2008) collected in X-Men: Divided We Stand (tpb, 136 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3265-1)
  • Uncanny X-Men (with Ed Brubaker, Greg Land, Terry Dodson, Mitch Breitweiser, Daniel Acuña, Yanick Paquette, Alan Davis, Whilce Portacio, Phil Jimenez, Leonard Kirk, Harvey Tolibao, Steven Sanders, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen and Paul Renaud, 2008-2011) collected as:
    • Manifest Destiny (includes #500-503, hc, 208 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3817-X; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2451-9)
    • Lovelorn (collects #504-507, and Annual #2, tpb, 136 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2999-5)
    • Sisterhood (collects #508-512, tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4105-7)
    • Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia (hc, 368 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4233-9; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4234-7) includes:
      • Dark Reign: The Cabal: "Emma Frost: How I Survived Apocalyptic Fire" (with Daniel Acuña, one-shot, 2009)
      • Utopia: "Part One" (with Marc Silvestri, Michael Broussard, Eric Basaldu, Tyler Kirkham, Sheldon Mitchell, one-shot, 2009)
      • Uncanny X-Men #513-514: "Parts Two & Four" (with Terry Dodson, 2009)
      • Dark Avengers #7-8: "Parts Three & Five" (with Luke Ross, 2009)
      • Exodus: "Conclusion" (with Terry Dodson and Mike Deodato, Jr., one-shot, 2009)
    • Nation X (includes #515-522 and Dark Reign: The List - X-Men one-shot, hc, 360 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3873-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4103-0)
    • Second Coming (includes #523-525 and Second Coming #2, hc, 392 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4678-4; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5705-0)
    • The Birth of Generation Hope (collects #526-529, and The Heroic Age one-shot, tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4643-1)
    • Quarantine (collects #530-534, tpb, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5225-3)
• The Immortal Iron Fist (with Ed Brubaker, David Aja, Travel Foreman, Russ Heath, Jr., Sal Buscema, Khari Evans, Leandro Fernandez, Roy Allan Martinez, Scott Koblish, Jose Angel Cano Lopez, Javier Pulido, Tonci Zonjic, Clay Mann, Daniel Brereton, Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic, Howard Chaykin, Mitch Breitweiser, Nick Dragotta and Lewis LaRosa, 2007-2008) collected as:
  • The Last Iron Fist Story (collects #1-6 and Civil War: Choosing Sides one-shot, hc, 160 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2854-9; tpb, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2489-6)
  • The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven (collects #8-14 and Annual #1, hc, 216 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2992-8; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2535-3)
  • The Book of the Iron Fist (collects #7, 15-16 and two one-shots, hc, 160 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2993-6; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2536-1)
  • The Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus (collects #1-16, Annual #1 and the one-shots, hc, 560 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3819-6)
• Punisher War Journal v2 (with Ariel Olivetti, Mike Deodato, Jr., Leandro Fernandez, Cory Walker, Scott Wegener, Howard Chaykin, Rick Remender and
  Andy MacDonald, 2007-2009) collected as:
  • Civil War (collects #1-4, hc, 144 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2775-5; tpb, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2315-6)
  • Goin' Out West (collects #5-11, hc, 168 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2852-2; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2636-8)
  • Hunter/Hunted (collects #12-17, hc, 152 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3021-7; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2664-3)
  • Jigsaw (collects #18-23, hc, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3022-5; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2964-2)
  • Secret Invasion (collects #24-26, hc, 120 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3148-5; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3170-1
• The Sensational Spider-Man Annual #1: "To Have and to Hold" (with Salvador Larocca, 2007) collected in Peter Parker, Spider-Man: Back in Black (hc, 336 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2920-0; tpb, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2997-9)
• The Order (with Barry Kitson, Khari Evans and Javier Saltares, 2007-2008) collected as:
  • The Next Right Thing (collects #1-5, tpb, 128 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2795-X)
  • California Dreaming (collects #6-10, tpb, 120 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2796-8)
• Thor:
  • Thor: Ages of Thunder (hc, 160 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3567-7; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3568-5) collects:
    • Ages of Thunder (with Khari Evans and Patrick Zircher, one-shot, 2008)
    • Reign of Blood (with Khari Evans and Patrick Zircher, one-shot, 2008)
    • Man of War (with Patrick Zircher and Clay Mann, one-shot, 2009)
    • God-Sized Special (with Mike Allred, Doug Braithwaite, Miguel Sepulveda and Daniel Brereton, one-shot, 2009)
  • Secret Invasion: Thor (with Doug Braithwaite, 2008) collected as Secret Invasion: Thor (tpb, 96 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3426-3)
  • Thor #615-621 (with Pasqual Ferry, 2010-2011) collected as The World Eaters (hc, 216 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4838-8; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4839-6)
  • The Mighty Thor (with Olivier Coipel, 2011-...) collected as:
    • Volume 1 (collects #1-6, hc, 144 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5691-7; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5624-0)
    • Volume 2 (collects #7-12 and Fear Itself #7.3, hc, 168 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6243-7)
• The Invincible Iron Man (with Salvador Larroca, 2008-...) collected as:
  • The Five Nightmares (collects #1-7, hc, 184 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3461-1; tpb, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3412-3)
  • World's Most Wanted, Book 1 (collects #8-13, hc, 152 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3828-5; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3413-1)
  • World's Most Wanted, Book 2 (collects #14-19, hc, 160 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3935-4; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3685-1)
  • Stark Disassembled (collects #20-24, hc, 136 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4554-0; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-3686-X)
  • Stark Resilient, Book 1 (collects #25-28, hc, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4555-9; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4556-7)
  • Stark Resilient, Book 2 (collects #29-33, hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4834-5; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4835-3)
  • My Monsters (collects #500, 500.1, 503 and Annual #1, hc, 168 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4836-1; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4837-X)
  • The Unfixable (includes #501-503 and FCBD 2010: Iron Man/Thor, hc, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5322-5; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5323-3)
  • Fear Itself (collects #504-509 and Fear Itself #7.2, hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5773-5)
  • Demon (collects #510-515, hc, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6046-9)
• Young Avengers Presents #6: "Hawkeye" (with Alan Davis, 2008) collected in Young Avengers Presents (tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2975-8)
• Captain America: Who Won't Wield the Shield?: "The Incredibly Normal and Bourgeois Idea of Doctor America, Occult Operative of Liberty" (with Howard Hallis and Brendan McCarthy, one-shot, 2010)
• Fear Itself #1-7 (with Stuart Immonen, 2011) collected as Fear Itself (hc, 240 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5662-3)
• Casanova: Avaritia #1-4 (with Gabriel Bá, 2011) collected as Casanova: Avaritia (tpb, 152 pges, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4864-7)
• Fear Itself: The Fearless #1-12 (with Cullen Bunn, Christopher Yost, Mark Bagley and Paul Pelletier, 2011-2012)
• Battle Scars #1-6 (with Cullen Bunn, Christopher Yost and Scot Eaton, 2011-2012)
• Point One: "Doctor Strange: The Shaman of Greenwich Village" (with Terry Dodson, one-shot, 2011)
• Defenders (with Terry Dodson and Stuart Immonen, 2011-...) collected as:
  • Volume 1 (collects #1-5, hc, 136 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5850-2)

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Matt Fraction at the Grand Comics Database

External links[link]

• Official website
• Matt Fraction at the Comic Book DB
• Flickr page
• Matt Fraction's Resources at Howtomakecomics.net

Interviews[link]

• Half Man/Half Adequate: The Matt Fraction Q&A on Marvel.com
• Interviews > Matt Fraction on SuicideGirls
• What If James Bond Dug the Wu-Tang Clan, GQ
• X-POSITION: Matt Fraction, Comic Book Resources, September 3, 2008
• A comic book writer's secret identity revealed, LA Times, September 6, 2009
• Malcolm, Kevin. Emerald City ComiCon Part 1; Backroom Comics Podcast; Episode 5; April 2009

Audio interviews[link]

• Around Comics Episode 96 May 2, 2007
• Comic Geek Speak Episode 256 with Geoff Klock speaking about Casanova May 24, 2007
• Dollar Bin interview at Heroes Con 2007 June 28, 2007
• Fanboy Radio Episode 392 with wife Kelly Sue DeConnick May 20, 2007

Jim Cheung
Cheung at the Big Apple Convention, May 21, 2011.
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Penciller

Jim Cheung (born 1972^[1]) is a British^[1] comic book artist, known for his work on the series such as Scion, New Avengers: Illuminati, Young Avengers and Avengers: The Children's Crusade.

Career[link]

Cheung worked on several Marvel series during the mid- to late 1990s. He also worked on Scion for Crossgen Comics in the early 2000s. He later returned to Marvel, where he illustrated the five-issue New Avengers: Illuminati mini-series for Marvel Comics, and then pencilled two more issues of New Avengers.

He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's "Young Guns", a group of artists that, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller". Other "Young Guns" include Olivier Coipel, David Finch, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov and Steve McNiven.^[2]

Cheung illustrated the 2010-2012 miniseries Avengers: The Children's Crusade.^[3]

Bibliography[link]

Marvel Comics[link]

Interiors[link]

• Avengers Finale
• Avengers: The Children's Crusade #1-9
• Black Knight: Exodus #1
• Elektra: The Hand #1, #5 (select pages)
• Force Works #15-17
• Giant-Sized Avengers Special #1 (2007)
• Iron Man #325 (50/50)
• Marvel Comics Presents #170
• Marvel Comics Presents #1-12
• New Avengers #25, 40, 43
• New Avengers: Illuminati #1-5
• Maverick #1-11
• Spider-Man Unlimited #6
• Uncanny X-Men #371
• X-Force #82-84, 86-88, 90, 94-95, 98-100
• Young Avengers #1-6, 9-12

Covers[link]

• Avengers #82-83
• Avengers: The Initiative #1-5, Annual #1w
• Cable #73
• Casualties of War: Captain America/Iron Man one-shot (both covers)
• Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways #1-4
• Fantastic Four #525-526
• Fantastic Four: Foes #1-5
• Hulk vs Fin Fang Foom one-shot (2007)
• New Avengers: Illuminati #1-5
• Iron Man: Director of SHIELD Annual #1
• New Avengers #4 (variant), Annual #2
• New Avengers/Transformers #1
• Secret Warriors #1-Present
• Ultimate Nightmare #5
• Uncanny X-Men #493 (variant)
• What If...Magneto and Professor X Had Formed the X-Men Together?
• World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound #1-5
• X-Factor (vol 3) #27 (variant)
• X-Force #101
• X-Men #207 (variant)
• Young Avengers #1-12
• Young Avengers Special #1
• Young Avengers Presents #1-6

CrossGen Comics[link]

• Scion #1-6, 7-11, 13-16, 18-21, 23-26, 31-32, 35-36, 38-39

Village Voice[link]

• Kill Bill (October 1–7, 2003) (vol XLVII NO.40)

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Jim Cheung at the Grand Comics Database

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jim Cheung

• Jim Cheung at the Comic Book DB
• Jim Cheung on Marvel.com