Val Semeiks

Infobox Comics creator

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birthname = Valdis Semeiks
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notable works = Conan the Barbarian (Marvel)
The Demon, Lobo (DC)
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Valdis "Val" Semeiks is an American comic book artist who has mostly worked for DC Comics and Marvel Comics.

Biography

Val Semeiks "(pronounced Semmix [ [http://www.valsemeiks.com/aboutvalsemeiks.htm Semeiks' website: About Val Semeiks] . Accessed March 18, 2008] )" was born in the USA on February 5, 1955 to Latvian parents.

Semeiks graduated from College with degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics, before pursuing a career in advertising, working as "an art director for a regional ad agency". [ [http://www.valsemeiks.com/aboutvalsemeiks.htm Semeiks' website: About Val Semeiks] . Accessed March 18, 2008] He has been working in the comics field since 1986, mostly as a penciller although he has been known to ink his own work. His first professional credit was with Marvel, "drawing "King Kull" back-up stories for "The Savage Sword of Conan", which ultimately led to him becoming the monthly artist on "Conan the Barbarian", allowing him to leave his day job and forge a fulltime career as a comics artist. [ [http://www.valsemeiks.com/aboutvalsemeiks.htm Semeiks' website: About Val Semeiks] . Accessed March 18, 2008]

He is perhaps best known for his next major credits, long runs on both "The Demon" and "Lobo" for DC Comics primarily working with writer Alan Grant, whose plots Semeiks calls "laugh-out-loud funny," leading him to call his time on "Lobo" (upon which he worked with inker John Dell) "about as much fun as anyone can have drawing comics". [ [http://www.valsemeiks.com/aboutvalsemeiks.htm Semeiks' website: About Val Semeiks] . Accessed March 18, 2008] He also provided the artwork to Alan Grant and John Wagner's 1995 DC/2000 AD crossover title "Lobo/Judge Dredd: Psycho-Bikers vs. The Mutants From Hell" [http://en.dcdatabaseproject.com/Lobo/Judge_Dredd:_Psycho_Bikers_vs._the_Mutants_From_Hell_(1995)] . (As part of the 1996 "DC vs. Marvel" event, the DC and Marvel Universes briefly combined to form the Amalgam Universe. Alan Grant and Semeiks were reunited in 1997 to produce a comic as part of the Amalgam Comics line, when Val drew the all-too-brief adventures of "Lobo the Duck," where he demonstrated his versatility with a much more cartoon-like approach to the artwork.)

Returning briefly to Marvel, Semeiks was reunited with his first editor - Larry Hama - this time acting as writer on "Wolverine", upon which Semeiks worked, alongside a number of other titles. Returning again to DC, Semeiks worked on a number of JLA projects with then-JLA-writer Grant Morrison, including "JLA/WildC.A.T.S." and "DC One Million".

Semeiks has also drawn stories penned by Dwayne McDuffie for "", and has also worked on non-Superhero projects including cartoon work for "MAD Magazine" and DC's "Big Book" series (from Paradox Press) as well as "video game and toy design work too". [ [http://www.valsemeiks.com/aboutvalsemeiks.htm Semeiks' website: About Val Semeiks] . Accessed March 18, 2008]

Recent work

In 2005, Val produced a fill-in issue (#3) for the hit series "Villains United", in the lead-up to DC's "Infinite Crisis" event when artist Dale Eaglesham fell ill. In 2006, he helped wrap up the second volume of "Flash", illustrating issues #227-230.

Val has also illustrated fantasy author R.A. Salvatore's "Icewind Dale Trilogy" in three comicbook mini-series ("Crystal Shard", "Streams of Silver" and "Halfling's Gem").

References

External links

*comicbookdb|type=creator|id=865|title=Val Semeiks
* [http://www.valsemeiks.com/ Val Semeiks' website]