No.43: Adam Hughes
Adam Hughes is a US comic artist whose seemingly simple comic images belie the fact that he takes his influences from the likes of Alphonse Mucha, Toulouse Lautrec and the Art Nouveau movement in general as well as comic artists like Michael Golden and Kevin Nowlan. Hughes’ elegant pieces have meant that he has become one of the most in-demand mainstream comic cover artists of the past twenty years.Words: Joel Meadows…
Hughes never trained professionally as an artist and he began his comics career creating pin-ups for Eagle, a comic created by Mark Ellis in 1987. His first series was Mike W Barr’s detective comic The Maze Agency, published by Comico. This was what got him noticed by the mainstream publishers and after a year on The Maze Agency, he jumped to DC to draw their popular team book Justice League America.
When he was 24 years old, Hughes joined Gaijin Studios in Atlanta, Georgia which was a hotbed of modern comics talent with other notable comic artists like Tony Harris, Cully Hamner, Brian Stelfreeze and Dave Johnson all members at one point or another.
Hughes drew the first appearance of Dark Horse’s Ghost superhero character in event series Comics’ Greatest World and went on to draw a number of issues of the character’s own series.
He went on to write and draw a two part Gen 13 series for DC’s Wildstorm imprint in 1995 and in 1998 he began a four year run on DC’s Wonder Woman as its regular cover artist. This cemented his reputation as one of the finest and most distinctive cover artists in the business.
In the 2000s, Hughes moved on to create covers for DC’s Catwoman series and he displayed his dexterity and versatility as an illustrator here, with a number of inventive and cleverly composed single images.
In the 2010s, Hughes drew Before Watchmen: Dr Manhattan, a series that acted as a prequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal comic of the 1980s.
In recent years he has returned to interiors again working with Mike Mignola on the award-winning Hellboy: Krampusnacht which was published in 2017.
Hughes also cites artists like Dave Stevens, Steve Rude and Mignola as major influences on his illustration and you can also see modern US illustrators like Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish and Dean Cornwell in his pieces. His bold lines and subtle use of light makes his work instantly recognisable and he is able to bring his influences to bear while offering a new take that is distinctly Adam Hughes.
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