19 Facts About Phil Jimenez

Phil Jimenez attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York, where he majored in cartooning.

Phil Jimenez graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1991.

Pozner was HIV-positive when he and Phil Jimenez started dating, and was hesitant about dating someone younger and HIV-negative.

Phil Jimenez was an incredibly talented man, with some very strong opinions about the way things should be done.

Much of Phil Jimenez's work is related to works by George Perez, whose art strongly influenced Phil Jimenez.

In 2003, Phil Jimenez drew several story arcs of Morrison's New X-Men run.

Phil Jimenez was one of the four artists working on Marvel's flagship title, The Amazing Spider-Man, the company's sole Spider-Man title, in which Marvel upped its frequency of publication to three issues monthly, and inaugurated the series with the "back to basics" story arc "Brand New Day" at the beginning of 2008.

Phil Jimenez co-wrote the book The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia with John Wells for Del Rey Books in 2010 and updated through Random House in 2015.

Phil Jimenez later returned to DC Comics, illustrating a brief stint on Adventure Comics featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Fairest, a spin-off of Bill Willingham's series Fables.

Phil Jimenez appeared at the White House for the National Design Awards to present original art to First Lady Michelle Obama.

Phil Jimenez got involved with Rebirth when he was originally assigned to be the artist of Superman but after DC changed their publishing plan, he was asked to work on Superwoman.

Phil Jimenez uses his own experiences and emotions and projects them onto the characters in his work.

Phil Jimenez uses the anxiety he experienced with his mother's death to relate to how Lana Lang deals with her losses.

Phil Jimenez has held figure drawing classes outside of SVA, at places such as the LGBT Center in the West Village.

Phil Jimenez provided sketches seen in the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man.

Phil Jimenez created art for the first permanent AIDS awareness exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Phil Jimenez's art has appeared on album covers and in editorial magazines.

Phil Jimenez's artwork has been featured in mainstream publications such as TV Guide, and he himself has been profiled or recognized in Entertainment Weekly, The Advocate, Instinct magazine and Out magazine.

Phil Jimenez came out as gay in 1992, and his first public relationship was with Neal Pozner, who hired him at DC that same year.