1. Sean Phillips was born on 27 January 1965 and is a British comic book artist, best known for his collaborations with Ed Brubaker on comics including Sleeper, Incognito, the Criminal series of comics, Fatale, The Fade Out, and Kill or Be Killed.
13 Facts About Sean Phillips
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Sean Phillips has worked on the DC Comics' series WildC.
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Sean Phillips began his career in 1980 in British girls' comic magazines such as Bunty, Judy and Nikki while still at school.
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Sean Phillips was part of the British Invasion, getting work on Hellblazer before returning to the UK.
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Sean Phillips returned to the American comic book industry in 2000 when he inked Scene of the Crime written by Ed Brubaker, a writer he would collaborate with a number of times over the following years.
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Sean Phillips moved on to Wildstorm for a long run on WildC.
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Sean Phillips went over to Marvel Comics in 2005 where he co-created Criminal with Brubaker at the Marvel imprint Icon Comics.
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Sean Phillips was the main artist on the first two instalments of the Marvel Zombies series with Robert Kirkman.
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Sean Phillips provided the art for The Criterion Collection release of the 1961 noir film Blast of Silence, as well as the art for the Criterion release of the 1957 legal drama 12 Angry Men, based on a design by Eric Skillman.
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In 2012, Sean Phillips was one of several artists to illustrate a variant cover for Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead No 100, which was released 11 July at San Diego Comic-Con.
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In 2019, Brubaker and Sean Phillips signed another five-year contract with Image to produce comics exclusively for that publisher.
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Sean Phillips' son Jacob Sean Phillips is a professional comics creator, having worked as a colorist on his father's comics and branching out into illustrating his own series.
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Sean Phillips is known for the different art styles he has employed over the years, from clean-line superhero work, to scratchy, noir-inspired black-and-line work, to painted comics.