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Kevin Nowlan

Kevin Nowlan (born 1958)[1] is an American comics artist who works as a penciler, inker, colorist, and letterer. He has been called "one of the few artists who can be called 'artists's artist'", a master of the various disciplines of comic production, from "design to draftsmanship to dramatics".[2]

For the Irish rugby player and businessman, see Kevin Nowlan (rugby union).

Kevin Nowlan

February 7, 1958 (1958-02-07) (age 66)
Nebraska

American

Writer, Penciller, Inker

Tomorrow Stories

Inkwell Award for Favorite Finisher/Embellisher (2008)
Inkwell Award for The Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Award (2011)
Inkpot Award (2015)

Early life[edit]

Nowlan was born in 1958 in Nebraska.[3] He has four older brothers and sisters. His brother read comic books, particularly DC Comics titles, and Nowlan has had comics around him since he can remember.[4] As an illustrator, Nowlan is mostly self-taught, but did attend a trade school for approximately a year and a half to learn design and layout.[5]

for Favorite Finisher/Embellisher (2008)

Inkwell Award

for The Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Award (2011)[12][13]

Inkwell Award

(2015)[14]

Inkpot Award

Doctor Strange

Moon Knight

#2–6: "Grimwood's Daughter" (with Jan Strnad and colors by Kenneth Smith, anthology, Fantagraphics Books, 1985)

Dalgoda

Annual #1: "The Skull... the Serpent... and the Outsiders" (with Mike W. Barr, DC Comics, 1986)

The Outsiders

#51: "Teacher's Choice" (with Chris Claremont and colors by Glynis Oliver, Marvel, 1987)

The New Mutants

Annual #3: "A Sense of Obligation" (with Richard Bruning, co-feature, DC Comics, 1987)

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps

vol. 3 #1–4 ("reality check" framing sequence; with Phil Foglio and Hilary Barta, DC Comics, 1988–1989)

Plastic Man

vol. 2 #39: "The Secret Origin of Man-Bat" (with Jan Strnad, anthology, DC Comics, 1989)

Secret Origins

#4: "The Hero of the Tale" (with Jan Strnad, anthology, Atomeka, 1990)

A1

: "The Castle" (with Neil Gaiman and colors by Daniel Vozzo, anthology one-shot, Vertigo, 1993)

Vertigo Jam

: "Curses! Broiled Again!" (with Jan Harold Brunvand, anthology, Paradox Press, 1994)

The Big Book of Urban Legends

Penthouse Comix

#4: "Monsters in the Closet" (with Jan Strnad, anthology, DC Comics, 1996)

Batman Black and White

#1 (with Mark Schultz and colors by Pamela Rambo, among other artists, Dark Horse, 1997)

Aliens: Havoc

vol. 2 #36: "No Good Deed" (with John Arcudi and colors by Laura DePuy, co-feature, Wildstorm, 1998)

Gen13

Tomorrow Stories

: "Chapter Four" (with Neil Gaiman, one-shot, DC Comics, 2000)

Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame

Volume 1: "Untitled" (with an anonymous writer, two pages in anthology graphic novel, Dark Horse, 2002)

9-11

#13, 20 (with Mark Waid, "Origins" co-features, DC Comics, 2006)

52

#2: "Man of the Hour" (with John Arcudi, anthology, Dark Horse, 2006)

The Goon: Noir

: "The Museum of Oddities" (with Jeff Parker, co-feature, Marvel, 2007)

X-Men: First Class Special

(with Mike Mignola, one-shot, Dark Horse, 2011)

Hellboy: Buster Oakley Gets His Wish

#1–3: "The Screenplay of the Living Dead Man" (with Steve Gerber, Marvel, 2012)

The Infernal Man-Thing

The Graveyard Book

Lobster Johnson

#23: "The Ogopogo" (with Scott Allie, Dark Horse, 2015)

Abe Sapien

(after Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, among other artists, one-shot, Marvel, 2020)

Giant-Size X-Men Tribute

vol. 7 #9 (with Brian Michael Bendis, among other artists, DC Comics, 2020)

Legion of Super-Heroes

Official website

Official blog

Gallery of published and unpublished works

at Mike's Amazing World of Comics

Kevin Nowlan

at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators

Kevin Nowlan