Gregory Capullo is an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on Quasar, X-Force, Angela, Spawn and Batman.
24 Facts About Greg Capullo
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Greg Capullo published his own creator-owned comic, The Creech, published through Image Comics.
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Apart from comics, Capullo has been involved in several projects such as pencilling for the Iced Earth albums The Dark Saga and Something Wicked This Way Comes, the Korn album Follow the Leader and the Disturbed album, Ten Thousand Fists.
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Greg Capullo was part of the crew who worked on the animated sequences in the 2002 film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.
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Greg Capullo began drawing at an early age, and remembers that he drew his first drawing of Batman when he was 4.
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Greg Capullo decided he wanted to be a professional artist early, having been influenced by creators such as John Buscema, Neal Adams, Gene Colan and Gil Kane.
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Greg Capullo was influenced by artists outside of comics, such as painter Frank Frazetta, animator Chuck Jones, and Mad Magazine caricaturist Mort Drucker.
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Greg Capullo's first comic work was a publication called Gore Shriek, which was picked up and published by a comic book store in Albany, New York, called Fantaco Enterprises.
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Greg Capullo worked with Marvel Comics for three years on various works, before moving on to other publications and projects with different companies.
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Briefly after Greg Capullo had started work with Marvel, he had begun smaller independent projects away from the company.
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Greg Capullo had started involvement with separate labels and anyone who would hire him for miscellaneous odd-jobs that needed completion.
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Greg Capullo has since done the cover art and pencils for many Image publications, including various Spawn tie-ins and variants, and Greg Capullo's own miniseries, The Creech.
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Greg Capullo helped McFarlane in creating the artwork now seen on the two Halo 3-themed controllers.
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Greg Capullo provided layouts for Image's Haunt, which debuted in October 2009.
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The pencils for the layouts were done by Ryan Ottley up until issue 6, when Greg Capullo then took over pencilling for the series and became the regular penciller, with inks done by Todd McFarlane.
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In 2011 Greg Capullo left the ongoing Haunt title in order to take on the art duties on Batman as part of DC Comics' 2011 company-wide title relaunch, The New 52, which paired him with writer Scott Snyder.
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Greg Capullo is responsible for the art on Five Finger Death Punch albums The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 and The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2, plus the first single "Lift Me Up".
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Greg Capullo has done artwork for heavy metal bands, Iced Earth and Disturbed.
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Greg Capullo drew all six issues of the series, which concluded in March 2018.
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Shortly before the release of the last issue of Metal, DC announced that Greg Capullo would join Snyder for his Black Label book Batman: The Last Knight on Earth, replacing the previously announced Sean Gordon Murphy.
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Greg Capullo drew variant covers for the 2018 Justice League Dark series' first four issues.
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Greg Capullo provided a variant cover for Snyder's The Batman Who Laughs miniseries, a spin-off of their Metal event.
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Greg Capullo drew Snyder's 8-page story for Detective Comics' 1000th issue, which was the first in the book.
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In February 2019 the cover to the first issue of The Last Knight on Earth was revealed, and in March the first color interiors for the book were revealed at Wondercon, though Greg Capullo frequently shared art in various stages of development on his social media.