Bryan Hitch
Bryan Hitch (1970) is a British comic book artist. He is the co-creator and artist of The Authority, and, currently, Marvel's The Ultimates. His long list of credits include The Sensational She-Hulk, X-Men, Superman and Stormwatch. His work for Marvel UK includes Action Force, Doctor Who (1988), Mys-Tech Wars and Death's Head.
Hitch's art, which closely resembled that of Alan Davis early in his career, is characterized by high level of detail, use of "widescreen" panels on projects like The Authority, and emotive facial close-ups. His run on JLA was broken up by fill-in artists, and while he' drew every issue of The Ultimates, there were months between issues. He completed 24 issues of the series in roughly 5 years, far below the average for most artists in the industry, although there was a several month gap between the first and second volumes of the series. This lateness has been explained by co-worker Brian Michael Bendis as a result of his busy homelife. In the months following the start of The Ultimates, his wife gave birth to their first child, William.[citation needed]
Millar and Hitch will reunite to write and draw Fantastic Four in 2008.
Hitch was a character design artist for Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2 animated films. He also was a character design artist for the video game Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. He was brought aboard the project due to his definitive rendition of the Hulk in The Ultimates. He was also hired by the BBC as the concept artist for the 2005 relaunch of the Doctor Who television series, having particular input into the design of the TARDIS interior set. He has also provided artwork that served as the cover of Empire, a British movie magazine doing a featured article on comic book movies.
Like Millar, Hitch is exclusive to Marvel Comics. However, both he and Millar have expressed their desire to re-invent Superman as a creative team.[citation needed]
Family
Hitch met his wife Jo in a bookshop in Surrey, and have four children.[citation needed]
Selected works
- X-Men vs. Brood: Day of Wrath 1-2, 1997
- The Authority 1-12 1999-2000
- Thing/She-Hulk: The Long Night one shot, 2003
- The Ultimates 1-13, 2002-2004
- The Ultimates 2 1-13, 2004-2007
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