| Norm Breyfogle | |
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| Born | February 27, 1960 Iowa City, Iowa [1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Artist |
| Notable works | Batman and Detective Comics |
| Awards | Squiddy Award nominations, 1989, 1991 |
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Norman Keith "Norm" Breyfogle (b. February 27, 1960) is an American comic artist. He was involved with the character of Batman in one book or another consistently from 1987-1995. He also co-created the character of Prime for Malibu Comics, and created and owns the copyright and trademark for the character Metaphysique.
He has worked on many different characters for most comic book publishers at one time or another. Breyfogle is currently working on The Danger's Dozen with creator and publisher Thad Branco of A First Salvo.
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Biography
Early life and career
When Breyfogle was 12 years old, he began taking private lessons from commercial artist Andrew Benson. Around this time, he also won his first award at a town and country art show. The Daily Mining Gazette, a newspaper in Houghton, Michigan, profiled him in 1976 as "Norm Breyfogle: Near Master Cartoonist at 16." During his time in high school, he co-plotted, wrote, and illustrated a comic book titled Tech-Team for Michigan Technological University.
After high school, Breyfogle attended Northern Michigan University, studying painting and illustration. During his time in college, Norm worked as an illustrator for a local magazine and also for a graphics company. In 1980, he illustrated a book titled Bunyan: Lore’s Loggin’ Hero, published by Book Concern.
Shortly after college, in 1982, Breyfogle moved to California. He went to work as a draftsman, and later worked for United Space Boosters as a technical illustrator designing a training manual for the Space Shuttle program.
Early comics work
In 1984, Mike Friedrich (President of Star Reach, a talent representative agency) saw his work hanging at the San Diego Con Art Show and began a professional relationship with Breyfogle. Breyfogle also at this time penciled a six-page story for DC’s New Talent Showcase, beginning a short run in the title. This was followed by several issues of First Comics’ American Flagg, penciling a back-up story titled "Bob Violence", in 1985. During this time he also drew for Tales of Terror, a horror anthology published by Eclipse Comics. Following that, and still breaking into the comic scene, Norm wrote, illustrated, and lettered a Captain America story in Marvel Fanfare in 1986. He then drew Whisper for First Comics in 1986-1987 — his first monthly book — before landing to Detective Comics (starring Batman, published by DC Comics).
Batman
Teamed with writer Alan Grant, Breyfogle helped repopularize Batman and revive the sales of Detective Comics. He drew the Batman for six years (1987-93), penciling Detective Comics from 1987-1990, then moving to Batman to introduce the new Robin from 1990-1992, and finally starting a new Batman series for DC titled Shadow of the Bat from 1992-1993. During his six-year run on the character of the Batman, he also did a few one-shots, two of them being Batman: Holy Terror (an Elseworlds story) and Batman: Birth of the Demon, which he hand painted. Characters he co-created with Grant included The Ventriloquist and Zsasz. He also provided pencils to a 10-page short story in Superman 80-Page Giant #1 (Feb. 1999).
Later work
In 2001, DC offered him the job of penciling The Spectre monthly, which he drew for one year. Later he spent 2003 pencilling and inking the title Black Tide, published by Angel Gate Press.
In 2004 Breyfogle began work on an illustrated children's book for the Society of St. John Monastery, finished many commissions for fans, put together a couple printed sketchbooks showcasing his work, and continued writing his novel, getting halfway done, finishing through chapter six. He also wrote over forty poems and over 1,300 haikus in a five-month marathon, and a number of short stories.
In February 2005 he accepted an offer to pencil and ink the interiors and covers of the new ongoing monthly title Of Bitter Souls from studio Relative Comics, originally published by Speakeasy Comics. It is written by Chuck Satterlee. Shortly before Speakeasy Comics went out of business, Relative Comics joined with Chimaera Studios and moved to publisher Markosia Comics.
In 2006 Breyfogle accepted an offer to pencil and ink the main story interiors and the covers for the upcoming comic book title The Danger's Dozen, due winter of 2007, from the publisher A First Salvo. He also began a professional relationship with the London-based art agency Debut Art.
In the fall of 2007 Kevin Breyfogle officially began working with A First Salvo alongside his brother Norm on The Danger's Dozen.
In 2006 and 2007, Mazz Press commissioned Breyfogle to illustrate "The .40 Caliber Mousehunt," a thriller novel about low-rent mercenaries by Stephen Pytak. For more information, log onto www.mazzpress.com
In the fall of 2008, Norm began drawing Archie's New Look, for "Archie's Double Digest," published by Archie Comic Publications.
Awards
Norm Breyfogle has been recognized for his work with nominations for the Squiddy Awards for Favorite Artist in 1989 and 1991, among many other awards.
Notes
- ^ From his biography on Norm Breyfogle.com
References
http://www.mazzpress.com Mazz Press official website
External links
Interviews
- Mxypedia.com
- Norm Breyfogle & Alan Grant 'Pro-To-Pro' Interview @ Adelaide Comics And Books
- Norm Breyfogle @ Adelaide Comics And Books
- BATMAN: Alan Grant & Norm Breyfogle Speak Out, January 6, 2007
- Norm Breyfogle interview an Oyfication.net.
| Preceded by Todd McFarlane |
Detective Comics artist 1987–1990 |
Succeeded by Flint Henry and |
| Preceded by Kieron Dwyer |
Batman artist 1990–1992 |
Succeeded by Cam Kennedy |
| Preceded by N/A |
Batman: Shadow of the Bat artist 1992 |
Succeeded by Dan Jurgens |
| Preceded by N/A |
Prime artist 1993–1994 |
Succeeded by Darick Robertson |
| Preceded by Craig Hamilton |
The Spectre artist 2002–2003 |
Succeeded by N/A |
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