Geofrey "Geof" Darrow was born on October 21,1955 and is an American comic book artist, best known for his work on comic series Shaolin Cowboy, Hard Boiled and The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, which was adapted into an animated television series of the same name, as well as his contributions to The Matrix series of films.
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Geofrey Geoff Darrow was born on October 21,1955, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Geoff Darrow sought out all available Blueberry volumes, gradually moving to other European works, such as Jean-Claude Mezieres' Valerian and Greg and Hermann's Bernard Prince.
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In 1982, Geoff Darrow met French comic book creator and his artistic idol Mœbius, who was staying in Los Angeles while working on Tron for Disney.
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The meeting with Les Humanoides Associes resulted in Geoff Darrow's first published comics work which was the debut of his character Bourbon Thret.
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Mistaking the Magazine for an actual periodical publication, a number of artists contacted Geoff Darrow and sent him their portfolios in hopes of doing artwork for the magazine.
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Miller and Geoff Darrow started developing the concept into their next project, The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot.
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Between 1993 and the series' first issue, released in 1995, the characters of Big Guy and Rusty appeared in a number of Geoff Darrow-illustrated posters and pin-ups, occasionally crossing over with other creator-owned characters such as Spawn and Ash.
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Geoff Darrow spent a year living in Japan and working on the production which was halted after the American financiers, The Weinstein Company, backed out.
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Outside of comics and film, Geoff Darrow has contributed artwork to a number of trading card series, including Magic: The Gathering, Star Wars Galaxy, Witchblade, The Shadow and Madman, as well as promotional posters, CD covers and role-playing games.
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Geoff Darrow serves on the national advisory board of PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children.
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Geoff Darrow has stated in interviews that he considers Jack Kirby, Herge, Mœbius, Jean-Claude Mezieres, Hermann, Francois Boucq, Osamu Tezuka, Katsuhiro Otomo, Sanpei Shirato, Vaughn Bode, Jack Davis, Richard Corben, as well as the films of Anthony Mann as his artistic influences.
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Geoff Darrow contributed character designs to a number of Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows:.
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