Phil Jimenez

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birthname = Philip Jimenez
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nationality = American
area = Writer, Penciller, Inker
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Philip "Phil" Jimenez (born July 12, 1970) is an American comic book writer, artist and penciller.

Biography

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and later Orange County, California, he moved to New York City to attend college at the School of Visual Arts where he now teaches a life-drawing course, Drawing for Cartoonists, as part of the undergraduate cartooning program. He began working at DC Comics when he was 21; his first published work was 4 pages in the DC miniseries "War of the Gods" (1991) and still lives in New York City. Jimenez came out in 1992, and his first open relationship was with the man who hired him at DC that same year, Neal Pozner.

He is probably best known for his work as writer/artist on "Wonder Woman" (2000-2003), main penciller of the miniseries crossover event "Infinite Crisis" (2005-2006) or his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on "The Invisibles" and "New X-Men".

His realistic and richly detailed art style is heavily influenced by the work of artist George Pérez, who worked on 80's series such as "The New Teen Titans" (also as co-plotter), "Crisis on Infinite Earths" and "Wonder Woman" (also as writer). In fact, a large part of Phil Jimenez' work is also related to these three works by Perez: Jimenez has worked repeatedly in several Titans-related series (some issues of the ongoing series "New Titans" and "Team Titans", and the miniseries "JLA/Titans", "The Return of Donna Troy" and "Tempest"), was the main artist of "Infinite Crisis", a sequel of "Crisis on Infinite Earths" and highly related to the historical limited series, and did a large run as writer & artist of "Wonder Woman" (as did Perez in the 80's). Jimenez and Perez also have worked together in 2005-2006 in the miniseries "Infinite Crisis" (where Jimenez is the main penciller, and Perez draws some sequences and covers for the series) and "The return of Donna Troy" (written by Jimenez and inked by Perez).

It was announced at the 2007 San Diego ComicCon that Jimenez had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics. He will be one of the four artists to be working on Marvel's flagship title, The Amazing Spider-Man, the company's sole Spider-Man title, in which Marvel upped its frequency of publication to three issues monthly, and inaugurated the series with the "back to basics" story arc "" at the beginning of 2008. His first work on Spider-man was in the "Free Comic Book Day 2007: Spider-Man" #1 (June 2007) comic book, with writer Dan Slott, which served as a prelude to "".

Bibliography

(In all titles providing interior pencils, except where noted)

* "Deathstroke Annual "#1 (1992).
* "Team Titans "(1992-94). Jimenez drew the Terra story of the issue 1, with George Pérez and Al Vey inking. Also drew interiors for issues 7-10 & 13-15, covers for issues 4-6 & 12 and co-plotted issues 13-24 and Annual 1.
* "New Titans "#93-95 (1993).
* "Robin "#6, 11-13 (1994-95). Also drew in "Showcase '94 "#5-6 the beginning and end of a 3-part story who had his middle chapter in Robin #6.
* "Lobo "#20 (1995).
* "Tempest "(1996). 4-issue miniseries, as writer & artist.
* "Wonder Woman: Donna Troy "(DC, 1998). Writer & artist of this one-shot.
* "X-Men: Liberators "(Marvel, 1998). 4-issue miniseries.
* "The Invisibles "Vol.1 #17-19 and" The Invisibles "Vol. 2 #1-13 (DC/Vertigo, 1996-97), with writer Grant Morrison. Was his longer work before Wonder Woman.
* "JLA/Titans: The Technis imperative "(DC, 1998). 3-issue miniseries. Penciler & co-plotter.
* "Planetary/Authority: Ruling the World "(Wildstorm, 2000). With writer Warren Ellis.
* "Titans/Legion of Super-Heroes: Universe Ablaze "(2000). 4-issue prestige miniseries. Finishes, over layouts by Dan Jurgens (also writer of the miniseries).
* "Wonder Woman "(vol. 2) (DC Comics, October 2000 - January 2003). 2-year run as writer & artist of the series, between issues 164 and 188, with some fill-in pencilers, and some co-writers in his first issues.
* "New X-Men "#132 (stand alone story), 139-141 ("Murder at the mansion" story arc) & 146-150 ("Planet X" story arc) (Marvel, 2002-2003). With writer Grant Morrison.
* "Otherworld "#1-7 (DC/Vertigo, 2005). Producer for this creator-owned multi-genre limited series.
* "DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy "(2005). Writer only, with pencils by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez and inks by George Pérez.
* "Infinite Crisis "#1-7 (DC Comics, 2005-2006). Main penciler of the limited series.
* "Free Comic Book Day 2007: Spider-Man" #1 (June 2007). Penciler. Marvel Comics' "Free Comic Book Day" release
* "Spider-Man: Swing Shift Director's Cut" #1 (2008). Penciler. (titled as "The Amazing Spider-Man: Swing Shift Director's Cut" on the cover only; reprints "Free Comic Book Day 2007: Spider-Man" #1 with new material)
* "The Amazing Spider-Man" #552-554, 565 (penciler), 566-567 (breakdowns)(2008)

Trivia

*He dedicated his work on the (1996) limited series "Tempest" to deceased DC editor Neal Pozner. Pozner had been the first editor to hire Jimenez, and the two subsequently had a relationship that ended when Pozner died of complications from AIDS in 1994.

*His work has appeared in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, on album covers, and in editorial magazines. He has been featured in "Entertainment Weekly", TV Guide, "The Advocate", "Instinct" and "Out" magazines.

*He also worked as a "hand double" for Tobey Maguire in the film "Spider-Man", in the scenes depicting the young Peter Parker designing his costumed identity.

ources

* [http://www.wonderphil.com/ a Phil Jimenez fansite]
* [http://marvel.com/catalog/?artist=Phil%20Jimenez Phil Jimenez on Marvel.com]
* [http://buzzcomics.net/showthread.php?p=580044 Titans/Legion: Universe ablaze gallery] . A credit page of the comic is shown, where we see Jimenez credited as "finishing artist" and Jurgens as "layout artist".

succession box | title="Wonder Woman" writer| before=Ben Raab
after=Walt Simonson| years=2001–2003