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Rob Davis is a British comics artist, writer, and editorial illustrator located in Blandford Forum, Dorset.British comics magazines and features to which he has contributed include ''Roy of the Rovers'', ''Judge Dredd'', ''Doctor Who Magazine'' and ''Doctor Who Adventures''. He has also created the graphic novels ''Don Quixote'' (based on Cervantes' novel of the same name) and an original story, ''The Motherless Oven''. ==History== Davis' first strips were seen in the self-published Slang comic, in partnership with Sean Longcroft. Davis' first professional work was on the football comic "Roy of The Rovers" relaunch as a monthly title in 1993. The original title was cancelled in March 1993 with Roy Race crashing his private helicopter, readers were left not knowing if he was alive or dead. In September 1993 Roy awoke from a coma to find his famous left foot amputated after the crash. The new Roy was 'Delroy' of the Rovers, Paul "Delroy" Ntende, a ragamuffin who played for Nigeria. The new approach by Davis and editor, Stuart Green, was very committed to the Kick Racism Out of Football Campaign and Davis also designed posters for the campaign featuring Delroy and Rocky. The strip itself dealt with issues of racism in the game, among other subjects. Green and Davis introduced many other innovations, including splitting the history of Roy Race into three generations of Race – Grandfather, Father and son. In addition to the monthly stories in Roy of The Rovers, Davis was also drawing another Roy strip in Shoot magazine as a two-page spread every week. Many of the changes made during Green and Davis' tenure on the strip were dropped in later revamps of the magazine. Davis went to work for 2000AD, drawing "Judge Dredd Lawman of the Future", a more child-friendly Judge Dredd spin-off based on the 1996 film. Davis then became disenchanted with comics and pursued a career as an illustrator before returning as a comics' writer on "Bus Stop", "The Woman Who Sold the World" and "The Widow's Curse, published in ''Doctor Who Magazine''. He was later an artist (but not writer) of "The Time of My Life", which also appeared there. Davis submitted a four-page comic strip to a 2010 graphic short story competition sponsored by ''The Observer''. The submission, entitled "How I Built My Father" did not win, it generated interest and Davis returned to comics with another short strip for the anthology ''Solipsistic Pop''. In 2011, Davis came up with the idea for a "collective graphic novel" that would showcase the talent of the UK comics scene, to be formed from multiple chapters by multiple creators. The result was ''Nelson'', co-edited with Woodrow Phoenix. Phoenix and Davis guided a team of 54 creators to produce 54 chapters of a single continuing story about a woman named Nel, a storytelling experiment that won huge critical acclaim. It was 'The Observer'' newspaper's Graphic Novel of The Month, November 2011. The Times newspaper awarded it Best Graphic Novel of 2011, it was nominated for an Eisner Award and was voted Book of The Year in the British Comic Awards 2012. He then began work on an graphic novel adaptation of ''Don Quixote'', which he made in two parts. The first volume was published in 2011 by SelfMadeHero and featured in many 'best of the year' lists. Davis released the second volume in 2013. ''The Complete Don Quixote'' (ISBN 978-1906838317) contains both parts. This version was nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2014. ''The Motherless Oven'', a surrealistic coming of age story, was published by SelfMadeHero in 2014. It was nominated for the Best Graphic Album – New Eisner Award. 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「Rob Davis (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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