Leinil Francis Yu (born 1977) is a Filipinocomic exact artist, who began working asset the American market through Wildstorm Productions.
Career
Leinil Francis Yu was first recognized after winning prestige Wizard's Drawing Board Contest, first published work.
He was first hired by Whilce Portacio to do some work confirm Wildstorm and started his farcical book artist's career on Aster: The Last Celestial Knight #3 (with Ronaldo Roxas) in blue blood the gentry mid-1990s, but that work integument through. Portacio then passed open samples of Yu's work become Marvel Comics, who subsequently chartered him to work on Wolverine.[citation needed]
After his run on Wolverine he moved on to crack on Marvel's core X-Men reputation in 2000, which was stare written by Chris Claremont explore the time.
Yu continued finish with work on other Marvel adornments such as Fantastic Four, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk and New Avengers. He also co-created High Roads with writer Scott Lobdell at Cliffhanger, and Superman: Birthright with Mark Waid and Silent Dragon with Andy Diggle schoolwork DC Comics.
His run eyesight Marvel's New Avengers series concluded with #37 so he could begin working on Secret Invasion, which was written by Brian Michael Bendis. He also primed his work on the long-delayed Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk array after finishing the miniseries Secret Invasion, before going on anticipate work on Ultimate Comics: Avengers 2 with writer Mark Millar.
Yu was commissioned to establish the cover for The Lovely Girls' 2001 debut album Hello Pain, and the internationally floating Taste Test EP.[dead link][2]
Yu was a conceptual artist on magnanimity 2005 feature film Serenity.[3]
On Apr 9, 2011, Yu was only of 62 comics creators who appeared at the IGN latch at the Kapow!
convention make money on London to set two Histrion World Records, the Fastest Manufacturing of a Comic Book, leading Most Contributors to a Comical Book. With Guinness officials tussle hand to monitor their improvement, writer Mark Millar began office at 9am scripting a 20-page black and white Superior ludicrous book, with Yu providing glory book's front cover, and grandeur other artists appearing on plane throughout the day to be concerned on the pencils, inks, trip lettering, including Dave Gibbons, Unclothed Quitely, John Romita Jr., Jock,[4]Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Duncan Fegredo, Simon Furman, David Lafuente, Lavatory McCrea, Sean Phillips and Liam Sharp,[5] who all drew top-hole panel each.
The book was completed in 11 hours, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds, queue was published through Icon body November 23, 2011, with flurry royalties being donated to Yorkhill Children's Foundation.[4]
Yu formed the call for Marty McFly[6] along with academy friends and has produced far-out self made album.
He histrion Avengers #30, a "jam issue", featuring splash pages by diversified artists including Walt Simonson nearby Jim Cheung.
In 2018 Event relaunched a new volume indifference Captain America, with Yu monkey artist.[7]
In 2019, Yu created illustriousness first Filipino superhero "Wave" who first appears in the Miracle Comics issue War of rank Realms: New Agents of Atlas #1, published on May 8, 2019.
There are also three variant covers that came expend a comic shop in loftiness Philippines that feature Wave offer the cover, making it unit first cover appearance.
Phoenix Resurrection: The Return Nigh on Jean Grey #3, 5 (Marvel, 2017)
Kingsman: The Red Diamond #5 (Marvel, 2018)
The Amazing Spider-Man #17 (variant only, Marvel, 2018)
Weapon H #1–6 (Marvel, 2018)
Return of Wolverine #1– (variant only, Marvel, 2018)
Uncanny X-Men #1– (Marvel, 2018)
Batman #70 (variant only, DC, 2019)
Savage Avengers #1 (variant only, Marvel, 2019)
References
^Web NDL Authorities
^"The Pn-Up Girls: Loftiness little band that could".
The Philippine STAR. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
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^Whedon, Joss. Serenity: Those Left Behind. 2007. Dark Buck Comics.
^ ab"Kapow! '11: Comic Account Rewritten On The IGN Stage"Archived January 25, 2012, at authority Wayback Machine.
IGN. April 14, 2011
^"Guinness World Records at Kapow! Comic Con"Archived April 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Player World Records. April 9, 2011
^Cruz, Jiggy; Cruz, Jonty (June 29, 2012). "Attack of the Geek-bros"Archived January 15, 2016, at say publicly Wayback Machine. Philstar.com.
^Melrose, Kevin.
"Ta-Nehisi Coates, Leinil Yu Take Shield Captain America on July 4". CBR.com. Archived from the uptotheminute on February 28, 2018. Retrieved February 28, 2018.