Klaus Janson was born on January 23,1952 and is a German-born American comics artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies.
12 Facts About Klaus Janson
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Klaus Janson was born in Coburg, West Germany, He emigrated to the United States in 1957, settling with his family in Connecticut, where he lived in Bridgeport from 1957 to 1972.
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Klaus Janson then became interested in the premiering character Daredevil, who wasn't popular among Klaus Janson's friends.
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Klaus Janson came to prominence as the inker over Sal Buscema's pencils on The Defenders.
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Klaus Janson began working for DC Comics in the early 1980s and inked Gene Colan's pencils on Detective Comics and Jemm, Son of Saturn.
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Klaus Janson has frequently pencilled and inked for various Batman titles, including the first Detective Comics Annual with writer Dennis O'Neil, "Gothic" with Grant Morrison, and "Knightfall" with Doug Moench.
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In 1994, Klaus Janson drew the Batman-Spawn: War Devil intercompany crossover which was written by Moench, Chuck Dixon, and Alan Grant.
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Klaus Janson inked the early issues of The Sensational Spider-Man which had been written and penciled by Dan Jurgens.
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Klaus Janson was one of the artists on The Dark Knight III: The Master Race which was co-written by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello.
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Klaus Janson has taught sequential storytelling at the School of Visual Arts in New York City since the 1990s and has written both The DC Comics Guide to Pencilling Comics and The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics.
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Klaus Janson holds annual seminars at Marvel for the editorial staff and their up-and-coming artists, and taught short courses on comics storytelling for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.
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In 2015, Klaus Janson was the Guest of Honor at the 2015 Inkwell Awards Awards Ceremony at HeroesCon.