Artist Joe Quesada Jumps from Marvel to DC Comics

Comic ebook writers and artists are likely to alternate between working at Marvel and DC Comics pretty usually, assuming they don’t break off to do their very own stuff. Soon to be becoming a member of DC is former Joe Quesada, author and artist who beforehand served because the editor-in-chief for Marvel the in the course of the early 2000s.

During the New York Comic-Con panel for DC’s chief artistic officer Jim Lee on Thursday, Quesada stopped by to announce that he’ll be a part of the home of Detective Comics, which he beforehand did artwork and covers for within the 90s. Following that, he spend the final a number of many years at Marvel, and have become concerned in some necessary imprints for the comics writer. The first of those was “Marvel Knights” in 1998, which famously targeted on then low-profile characters like Daredevil, Elektra, and Punisher. When he grew to become EiC, he partnered with then-Marvel VP Bill Jemas to determine the Ultimate Marvel line, which might in the end turn out to be the premise for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

For DC, Quesada’s been introduced on to attract variant covers (which, within the case of artists reminiscent of Dan Mora, usually precedes being introduced on for a full ebook). The first covers of his new tenure can be points for Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez’s present Batman run. He’ll be approaching as artist Mike Hawthorne is changing Jimenez for an arc. This announcement comes months after Quesada revealed in May that he’d be leaving Marvel to work on private tasks. In more moderen years on the House of Ideas, he was working as its govt VP and artistic director following a restructuring that resulted in Kevin Feige turning into the chief artistic officer for Marvel total.

You can sit up for seeing Quesada’s tackle Batman with Batman #131 and #132 starting in January 2023.

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