1. Johnny Mac Cassaday was an American comic book artist, writer, and television director.
28 Facts About John Cassaday
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John Cassaday was best known for his work on the critically acclaimed Planetary with writer Warren Ellis, where his art style conveyed a sense of realism despite that book's fantastical settings.
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John Cassaday received multiple Eagle and Eisner Awards and nominations for his work.
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Johnny Mac Cassaday was born on December 14,1971, in Fort Worth, Texas.
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John Cassaday directed television news in Texas for five years before moving to New York.
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John Cassaday spent one summer working a construction job while working on his portfolio in prepration for San Diego Comic-Con.
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In 1994 John Cassaday broke into the comic book industry with a one-page illustration and a short story for Boneyard Press.
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In 1996, at San Diego Comic-Con, John Cassaday showed his portfolio to popular comic book writer and editor Mark Waid, who recommended him to writer Jeff Mariotte, with whom John Cassaday would create the series Desperadoes, a Weird West series that was published from 1997 - 2002.
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John Cassaday quit his construction job and left Texas for New York.
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John Cassaday's covers for the series were designed like movie posters, with the book's logo reimaginzed for each issue.
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John Cassaday worked on multiple Captain America projects, including an issue of Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America written by Jeph Loeb.
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John Cassaday based his cover art on World War II propaganda posters.
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John Cassaday has created covers for comic books featuring The Phantom, for US publisher Moonstone Books and the European Egmont, as well as covers for Joss Whedon's Firefly spinoff comic Serenity: Those Left Behind, and Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper.
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John Cassaday handled covers and art direction on Dynamite Entertainment's The Lone Ranger comic-book series.
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From 2004 to 2008, John Cassaday illustrated the graphic novel trilogy Je suis legion by Fabien Nury from Les Humanoides Associes.
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John Cassaday wrote stories for Hellboy: Weird Tales, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, Rocketeer Adventures, X-Men: Alpha Flight, Bela Lugosi: Takes from the Grave, and Union Jack.
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John Cassaday wrote drawing instruction articles for Wizard Magazine's Wizard: How to Draw.
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John Cassaday appeared in the Captain America 75th Anniversary television special on ABC in January 2016.
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John Cassaday headlined the highly successful 2015 Star Wars revival at Marvel Comics.
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John Cassaday's art appeared in an episode of HBO First Look, a 2003 documentary about the making of the Daredevil film.
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John Cassaday worked as a concept artist on the film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic graphic novel Watchmen.
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John Cassaday directed "The Attic", the December 18,2009 episode of the television series Dollhouse, which aired as the tenth episode of that series' second season.
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John Cassaday's art was used extensively in the Futureal Studio documentary Adventures into Digital Comics.
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John Cassaday himself appeared in a Wizard World-sponsored documentary in 2002.
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John Cassaday appeared in Generation X: The Comic Book History of the X-Men, a 2006 DVD documentary about the X-Men franchise.
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John Cassaday credited the challenges of working on complicated books like Planetary with making him a better artist.
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John Cassaday died from cardiac arrest in a Manhattan hospital on September 9,2024, at the age of 52.
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John Cassaday was survived by his mother and a sister, Robin Cassaday, his father having died of cancer in 1990.