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John Lindley Byrne (; born July 6, 1950) is a British-born American comic-book writer and artist. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major American superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics’ ''X-Men'' and ''Fantastic Four'' and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ ''Superman'' franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the ''X-Men'' comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with ''Fantastic Four'' (where he started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including ''Next Men'' and ''Danger Unlimited''. He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's ''Hellboy'' series and produced a number of ''Star Trek'' comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his longtime X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were inducted into the comic book hall of fame. ==Early life and career== Byrne was born in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England where along with his parents (Frank and Nelsie) he lived with his maternal grandmother.〔Byrne, John "Superman: A Personal View" text article ''The Man of Steel'' #1 (Oct. 1986) DC Comics〕 While living there, prior to his family emigrating to Canada when Byrne was 8, he was first exposed to comics, saying in 2005, His first encounter with Marvel Comics was in 1962 with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s ''Fantastic Four'' #5.〔"Avengers Assemble: Question of the Month," ''Avengers'' #233 (July 1983) Marvel Comics〕 He later commented that "the book had an 'edge' like nothing DC was putting out at the time". Jack Kirby’s work in particular had a strong influence on Byrne and he has worked with many of the characters Kirby created or co-created. Besides Kirby, Byrne was influenced by the naturalistic style of Neal Adams. In 1970, Byrne enrolled at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. He created the superhero parody ''Gay Guy'' for the college newspaper, which poked fun at the campus stereotype of homosexuality among art students. ''Gay Guy'' is notable for featuring a prototype of the Alpha Flight character Snowbird. While there, he published his first comic book, ''ACA Comix'' #1, featuring "The Death’s Head Knight". Byrne left the college in 1973 without graduating. He broke into comics with a "Fan Art Gallery" piece in Marvel's promotional publication ''FOOM'' in early 1974 and by illustrating a two-page story by writer Al Hewetson in Skywald Publications’ black-and-white horror magazine ''Nightmare'' #20 (Aug. 1974). He then began freelancing for Charlton Comics, making his color-comics debut with the ''E-Man'' backup feature “Rog-2000,” starring a robot character he’d created in the mid-1970s that colleagues Roger Stern and Bob Layton named and began using for spot illustrations in their fanzine ''CPL'' (''Contemporary Pictorial Literature''). A Rog-2000 story written by Stern, with art by Byrne and Layton, had gotten the attention of Charlton Comics editor Nicola Cuti, who extended Byrne an invitation. Written by Cuti, "Rog-2000" became one of several alternating backup features in the Charlton Comics superhero series ''E-Man'', starting with the eight-page "That Was No Lady" in issue #6 (Jan. 1975). While that was Byrne's first published color-comics work, "My first professional comic book sale was to Marvel, a short story called Dark Asylum' ... which languished in a flat file somewhere until it was used as filler in ''Giant-Size Dracula'' #5 (1975) ), long after the first Rog story."〔 (Archive requires scrolldown.)〕 The story was plotted by Tony Isabella and written by David Anthony Kraft. After the R0g-2000 story, Byrne went on to work on the Charlton books ''Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch'', ''Space: 1999'', and ''Emergency!'', and co-created with writer Joe Gill the post-apocalyptic science-fiction series ''Doomsday + 1''. Byrne additionally drew a cover for the supernatural anthology ''The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves'' #54 (Dec. 1975). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Byrne (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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