David Aja

David Aja
Nationality	Spanish
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	The Immortal Iron Fist
Awards	"Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award (2008)
Official website

David Aja is a Spanish comic book artist, best known for his work on The Immortal Iron Fist and Daredevil.

Biography

He obtained a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca and served as a member of the faculty of fine arts from 1995 to 2000.

Aja began working as a professional illustrator in Barcelona in 2000. He has conducted public lectures on illustration as Faculty of Fine Arts at both Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). His work includes CD covers, as well as computer graphics with collaborator Marcel-li Antúnez.

He and his wife, Pilar, live in Valladolid, Spain.

Work includes

• European Press, Publishers, and Magazines, which include El País, Men's Health, Rolling Stone, Cinemanía, Espasa, and Santillana
• El Pais newspaper
• Progresa (Promotora General de Revistas S.A.): Cinemania, Rolling Stone, Revista 40 and Blue Joven
• Hachette Filipacchi: Emprendedores and Ragazza
• Muy Extra and Reporter Corporate Publishing Company

• Covers illustrations: Espasa, Planeta , Oxford, Alfaguara, Aguilar, Ediciones B, Plaza & Janes, Punto de Lecture and Circulo de Lectores
• Illustrated books: Gaviota, Santillana, Anaya, Circulo de Lectores and Cruilla

Comics

Comics include:

• X-Men Unlimited (Marvel Comics):
  • "So this Guy Walks Up to a Fruit Whipz Counter..." (with David Hahn, in X-Men Unlimited #11, December 2005)
  • "Dying Inside" (with C. B. Cebulski, in X-Men Unlimited #14, June 2006)

• "Futility" (with Paul Jenkins, in Civil War Front Line #3, Marvel Comics, September 2006)
• Daredevil #88 (with Ed Brubaker, Marvel Comics, October 2006)
• The Immortal Iron Fist (with Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction, Marvel Comics, November 2006-November 2008)
• "The Immortal Iron Fist" (with Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction, in Civil War Choosing Sides #1, Marvel Comics, December 2006)
• Giant-size Wolverine (pencils, with David Lapham and inks by Jose Villarrubia, Marvel Comics, December 2006)

Covers include:

• Marvel Knights 4
• Four #28 (May 2006)

Awards

• 2008: Won the "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award

References

• David Aja at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Official website
• Meet & Greet: David Aja, Newsarama, August 8, 2006
• Iron Drawing Hand: Aja talks "The Immortal Iron Fist", Comic Book Resources, November 16, 2006

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Name	Aja, David
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