Leinil Francis Yu

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Leinil Francis Yu (born July 1977) is a Filipino comic book artist, who began working for the American market through Wildstorm Productions. In an interview published in Marvel's "Daily Bugle" newsletter, he described his style as "Dynamic Pseudo-Realism."

Bibliography

Interiors

*New Avengers
*Secret Invasion
*Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk
*Ultimate X-Men/Fantastic Four
*Ultimate Fantastic Four/X-men
*Ultimate X-Men Annual
*X-Men
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Biography

Yu was first recognized after winning the "'s" Drawing Board Contest, his first published work. He was first hired by Whilce Portacio to do some work for Wildstorm, but that work fell through. Portacio then passed on samples of Yu's work to Marvel Comics, who subsequently hired him to work on "Wolverine".

After his run on the "Wolverine" series, he moved on to work on Marvel's core "X-Men" title in 2000, which was being written by Chris Claremont at the time. Yu continued to work on other Marvel titles such as "Fantastic Four, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk" and "New Avengers". He also co-created "High Roads" with writer Scott Lobdell at Cliffhanger, and "" with Mark Waid and "Silent Dragon" with Andy Diggle at DC Comics.

His run on Marvel's "New Avengers" series ended with #37 so he could begin working on the acclaimed "Secret Invasion". "New Avengers" writer Brian Michael Bendis has, however, expressed interest in numerous "Wizard Magazine" interviews that he intends to keep Yu as an artist on the series.Fact|date= February 2008 Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada has announced that Yu would be completing his work on the long-delayed "Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk" series after finishing "Secret Invasion".

References

* [http://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/interviews.html?showinterview=IN02060673305 Dynamic Forces Interview]
* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=005496 2006 interview]
* [http://www.swut.net/lbsb/ Leinil's Big Swut Bonanza]

External links

* [http://members.cox.net/komikasa/leinilfrancisyu Official Leinil Francis Yu Website]
* [http://leinilyu.deviantart.com Leinil Yu] - deviantART account
* [http://marvel.com/catalog/?artist=Leinil%20Francis%20Yu Leinil Francis Yu on Marvel.com]