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Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30, 1952) is an American comic book illustrator and writer. ==Biography== Keith Giffen was born in Queens, New York City. His first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white text story featured in ''Marvel Preview'' #4 (Jan. 1976), with writer Bill Mantlo. Giffen and Mantlo created Rocket Raccoon in ''Marvel Preview'' #7 (Summer 1976). Giffen is best known for his long runs illustrating and later writing the ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' title in the 1980s and 1990s. Giffen and writer Paul Levitz crafted "The Great Darkness Saga" in ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' vol. 2, #290–294 in 1982. In August 1984, a third volume of the ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' series was launched by Levitz and Giffen.〔Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 208: "As DC began to toy with the idea of relaunching some of their more popular titles using high-quality Baxter paper, the ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' was an obvious chioice. Utilizing the talents of writer Paul Levitz and artist Keith Giffen...the Legion was off and running in their own new title with a major new storyline...the Legion's other monthly comic changed its moniker to ''Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes'' with issue #314."〕 Giffen plotted and pencilled the fourth volume of the ''Legion'' which began in November 1989.〔Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 241: "Plotted by Keith Giffen and inker Al Gordon, scripted by Tom and Mary Bierbaum, and pencilled by Giffen, this relaunch of the formerly teen team of heroes and heroines broke new ground in the fictional realm of the 30th Century.〕 In addition, Giffen co-created the humorous ''Justice League International'' series in 1987 with J. M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire.〔Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 228: "It was clear that the (League ) needed a major overhaul. But no one quite expected how drastic the transformation would truly be in the hands of writers Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis and artist Kevin Maguire."〕 The success of that series led to a spinoff in 1989 titled ''Justice League Europe'' also co-written with DeMatteis and featuring art by Bart Sears.〔Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 239: "Spinning out of the pages of ''Justice League International'', an offshoot of the Justice League set up camp in Paris. Written by Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis with art by Bart Sears."〕 The Giffen/DeMatteis team worked on ''Justice League'' for five years and closed out their run with the "Breakdowns" storyline in 1991 and 1992.〔Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 251: "The lauded Giffen/DeMatteis era of the Justice League came to a dramatic close with "Breakdowns", a sixteen-part storyline that crossed through the pages of both ''Justice League America'' and ''Justice League Europe''."〕 The two writers and Maguire reunited in 2003 for the ''Formerly Known as the Justice League'' miniseries〔Cowsill, Alan "2000s" in Dolan, p. 311: "In 2003, writers J. M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen and original artist Kevin Maguire worked on a six-part series reuniting (version of ) the team."〕 and its 2005 sequel, "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" published in ''JLA Classified''. Giffen created the alien mercenary character Lobo with Roger Slifer,〔Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 202: "When space-bike-riding renegade Lobo made his debut during the "Citadel War" storyline in ''The Omega Men'' by Roger Slifer and artist Keith Giffen, he was hardly recognizable as the rebellious anti-hero who would become one of the best-selling DC characters of the 1990s."〕 and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug.〔Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 199: "(Bug ) made his debut in the pages of ''DC Comics Presents'' #52...() writer Paul Kupperberg and artist Keith Giffen."〕 A Doctor Fate series of back-up stories, written by Martin Pasko and drawn by Giffen appeared in ''The Flash'' #306 (Feb. 1982) to #313 (Sept. 1982). DC later collected Pasko and Giffen's stories into a three-issue limited series titled ''The Immortal Dr. Fate'' (Jan. 1985 – March 1985). He was one of several artists on ''Wonder Woman'' #300 (Feb. 1983).〔Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 200: "The Amazing Amazon was joined by a host of DC's greatest heroes to celebrate her 300th issue in a seventy-two-page blockbuster...Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, and penciled by Gene Colan, Ross Andru, Jan Duursema, Dick Giordano, Keith Pollard, Keith Giffen, and Rich Buckler."〕 Giffen plotted and was breakdown artist for an ''Aquaman'' limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics. He has worked on titles owned by several different companies including Woodgod, ''All Star Comics'', ''Drax the Destroyer'', ''Heckler'', ''Nick Fury's Howling Commandos'', ''Reign of the Zodiac'', ''Suicide Squad'', ''Trencher'', ''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'', and ''Vext''. He was responsible for the English adaptation of the ''Battle Royale'' and ''Ikki Tousen'' manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He worked for Dark Horse from 1994 to 1995 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, ''Division 13 ''and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of ''Agents of Law''. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote ''X-O Manowar'', ''Magnus, Robot Fighter'', ''Punx ''and the final issue of ''Solar, Man of the Atom''. He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as ''The Real Ghostbusters'' and ''Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy''. Giffen and his ''Justice League'' colleagues, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire, have applied their humorous brand of storytelling to a title that he had drawn in the 1970s, Marvel Comics' ''The Defenders''. The same trio produced the Metal Men backup feature that appeared in ''Doom Patrol''. Giffen and DeMatteis collaborated on the creator owned title, ''Hero Squared'' for Boom! Studios, with artist Joe Abraham. The two-issue mini-series ''Planetary Brigade'' chronicled the adventures of characters originating from this series. Giffen was the breakdown artist on the DC Comics title ''52'', a weekly series following in the wake of the ''Infinite Crisis'' crossover, written by Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid and Grant Morrison.〔Cowsill "2000s" in Dolan, p. 325: "The title was masterminded by writers Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid, with Keith Giffen providing art breakdowns."〕 He continued in that role with the follow-up weekly series ''Countdown to Final Crisis.'' He was the lead writer for Marvel Comics's "Annihilation" event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in ''Thanos''〔 and ''Drax'', the ''Silver Surfer'' as well as the main six issues mini-series. He wrote the ''Star-Lord'' mini-series for the follow-up story ''Annihilation: Conquest''. Between 2005 and 2007 he co-created and often authored or co-authored independent comics such as ''10'', ''Tag'' and ''Hero Squared'' for Boom! Studios for ''Zapt!'' and ''I Luv Halloween'' for Tokyopop, ''Common Foe'' and ''Tabula Rasa'' for Desperado Publishing/Image Comics and ''Grunts'' for Arcana. Many of these were co-authored with Shannon Denton. He co-wrote ''OMAC'' with Dan DiDio as part of The New 52 company-wide relaunch until its cancellation with issue #8. In October 2011, he became writer of ''Green Arrow'' from issues #4–6. Giffen and Paul Levitz collaborated on the ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' for issues #17 and 18 in 2013. Giffen reunited with J. M. DeMatteis on the ''Justice League 3000'' series launched in October 2013.〔Manning "2010s" in Dougall, p. 341: "The future reality of the Legion of Super-Heroes was explored by writers Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis and artist Howard Porter."〕 In 2014, he and Jeff Lemire, Dan Jurgens, and Brian Azzarello co-wrote ''The New 52: Futures End''. That same year, Giffen and Dan DiDio reunited on ''Infinity Man and the Forever People''. 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「Keith Giffen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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