1. Greg Land was born on 1956 and is an American comic book artist, best known for his work on books such as Uncanny X-Men, Birds of Prey, and Fantastic Four.
10 Facts About Greg Land
1. 2.
Greg Land first got a job with an independent publisher as the artist for StormQuest after advertising himself at a Mid-Ohio Con comic convention.
3.
Greg Land had runs as interior penciler on both Birds of Prey and Nightwing.
4.
Later, Land began to work at CrossGen Comics on Sojourn.
5.
Greg Land did the artwork for a crossover between Marvel's Supremeverse and the Ultimate Universe, entitled Ultimate Power, which was written by Brian Michael Bendis, J Michael Straczynski and Jeph Loeb.
6.
Greg Land then did the covers for Marvel Zombies 3 which were all homages to posters of notable zombie movies.
7.
Greg Land has been accused of going beyond the accepted bounds of photographic reference, lifting images from sources that include hardcore pornography, and copying them into his pages outright with minimal Photoshop alterations to make the work appear to be an original drawing, a reputation he developed from his work on Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate Power.
Related searches
Jeph Loeb 8.
Greg Land has agreed that he does employ photo reference to a large extent, and that he uses pornography as a source, but denies that the extent to which he does so is questionable.
9.
Greg Land has been accused of directly swiping art from other comics artists, and is considered "notorious" for tracing his art from other sources.
10.
Similarities were found between elements of Greg Land's cover and an Alien portrait by Andy Brase, a catalog photo of a sculpted Alien egg toy by NECA, and a screenshot from the Sega video game Aliens: Colonial Marines.