SIENKIEWICZ, Bill

(1958-)

   US COMICS artist. His early work was heavily influenced by Neal ADAMS, although his fine pen line was more fluid and expressive, and his brushwork freer. His work matured, becoming more painterly and stylish, as he graduated to GRAPHIC NOVELS. BS appears now to have deserted narrative art for advertising, record-cover design and more upmarket illustration. He has won many awards, including the 1987 Jack Kirby Award for BestArtist and the 1986 Yellow Kid (Italy).He attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, and began illustrating comic books in 1978 with a story in The Hulk magazine featuring Moon Knight, a character who gave the title to a comic-book series which BS drew 1980-84, developing a dramatic narrative technique along with his energetic and increasingly sophisticated drawing. He drew and coloured an adaptation of the 1984 film DUNE (Marvel Super Special \#36, 1984), and contributed a number ofexciting issues to MARVEL COMICS's New Mutants title 1984-6. His first fully painted strip, which appeared in the last issue of Epic Illustrated (1986), was "Slow Down Sir"; he went on to develop this aspect of his workfurther with the graphic novel Electra Assassin (1986-7; graph 1987). His magnum opus was Stray Toasters (graph 1988), a 4-part graphic novel inspired by the film-maker David Lynch (1945-). Since then his comic-book work has been limited to the first 2 episodes of Alan MOORE's Big Numbers (1990).

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   Other work: Bill Sienkiewicz Sketch Book (1990).