15 Facts About Fiona Staples

Fiona Staples has been described as one of the best artists working in the industry today.

Fiona Staples attended the Alberta College of Art and Design.

Fiona Staples was one of the illustrators of WildStorm's Trick 'r Treat graphic novel, an adaptation of the Michael Dougherty film.

Fiona Staples was the penciller and inker of The Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor, written by Mike Costa.

Fiona Staples was introduced to Vaughan by their mutual friend, writer Steve Niles, with whom Fiona Staples worked on Mystery Society.

Fiona Staples provides painted covers, and hand-letters the narration, which is the final work she does after finishing the artwork on a page.

Fiona Staples, who had previously provided variant covers for the publisher, contributed her distinctive drawing style, rather than Archie's house style, and designed "a new look and an edgier tone" for the Archie comic book, whose storylines will portray the character in darker, more complicated situations, though not necessarily for a strictly adult audience.

Fiona Staples has said that her art distributor is "perpetually disappointed in her," as fans would pay high prices for inks and pencils.

One of the advantages Fiona Staples sees in working digitally is the ability to dispense with tight pencils in favor of making corrections in an ad hoc manner, as she finds that penciling in great detail, and re-drawing such artwork a second time in ink, to be boring.

At the 2012 Image Expo, Fiona Staples described the process by which she produces the art as harkening back to animation cels, in which emphasis is placed on figures and backgrounds.

The process, according to Fiona Staples, can be time-consuming, depending on the complexity of the environment.

For pages that feature narration by the character Hazel, Fiona Staples writes the text using her own handwriting.

Vaughan has stated that Fiona Staples's style has influenced the direction of the story.

Fiona Staples's backgrounds are elaborate, yet never distracting or too busy and they never take focus off the main characters.

AICN singled out Fiona Staples's handling of grand, sweeping space shots and other genre trappings, as well as her mastery of facial expressions, which AICN felt was perfectly suited to Vaughan's subtle dialogue.