Adi Granov

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Adi Granov

Granov at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Nationality British, Bosnian
Area(s) Artist
Official website

Adi Granov is a Bosnian-British comic book artist and conceptual designer.

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Early life

Adi Granov was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia.[1] During the war in his home country he and his family emigrated to the United States.

Career

Adi Granov started his professional career as a concept artist at Nintendo Software Technologies, working on Bionic Commando and Wave Race: Blue Storm, among other titles. He provided illustrations for Wizards of the Coast on their Star Wars and Wheel of Time games. Adi provided artwork for a short story for Metal Hurlant magazine published by Humanoids Publishing, before illustrating Necrowar miniseries for Dreamwave Productions. In 2003 Granov started working for Marvel Comics providing covers to Iron Man, She-Hulk, Inhumans and Thor, and was named as one of the Marvel Comics Young Guns. In 2004 Granov teamed with comic book writer Warren Ellis for the post-Avengers Disassembled relaunch of Iron Man. He helped design the Iron Man suit for Jon Favreau's 2008 Iron Man film, also providing conceptual illustrations and designs for scenes and action sequences, and drew an Iron Man mini-series written by the film's director Jon Favreau.[2][3] Adi resumed his role on Iron Man 2 as well as the Avengers movies.

Granov has provided covers for Marvel Comics including Iron Man, X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Black Widow, Hulk, Captain America, Fantastic Four and many others, as well as illustrating short stories for Astonishing X-Men and Dark Reign titles.

Recently Granov provided cover artwork for video games Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 from Capcom and Heroes of Ruin from Square-Enix, as well as illustrating the cover for Wolverine & The X-Men: The Complete Series DVD from Lionsgate.

Personal life

Granov lives in Leeds, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom,[1] with his wife, makeup artist Tamsin Isles, who provides color assistance on some of his work, and handles his public relations, art sales, appearances and maintains his fansite.[4]

Granov's hobbies and interests include aeroplanes, trains and cars, in particular working on his 1967 Lotus Elan.[4]

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

Interiors

Cover for Captain America: Hail Hydra, limited series, #3

Covers

Books and compilations

Other work

Granov has also contributed to Devil's Due's GI Joe Reloaded in 2004, as well as Humanoids Publishing's Metal Hurlant and Dreamwave Productions' Necrowar. He also provided artworks for Magic: The Gathering card game. He also designed all the suits for the Iron Man film. He also designed the cover art for the Western versions of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Superheroes 'made in Yorkshire', BBC News, May 10, 2009
  2. ^ Forging Iron: Adi Granov talks Iron Man, Newsarama, September 11, 2007
  3. ^ VIVA LAS VEGAS: Granov talks Iron Man, Comic Book Resources, May 21, 2008
  4. ^ a b "About Adi Granov Illustration". adigranov.net. Retrieved November 12, 2011.

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