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William Marshall Rogers III (January 22, 1950 – March 24, 2007),〔(William Marshall Rogers III ), Social Security Number 084-38-8742, at United States Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org. Accessed March 2, 2013.〕 known professionally as Marshall Rogers, was an American comic-book artist best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics in the 1970s, particularly as one of the illustrators of Batman and the Silver Surfer. In addition, Rogers illustrated one of the first graphic novels, ''Detectives Inc.'' (1979). ==Biography== William Marshall Rogers III〔was born in the Flushing neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, and raised there and in Ardsley, New York.〔 He took up mechanical drawing in high school,〔Rogers interview, ''The Comics Journal'' (54): (57 ). (Archived ) from the original on October 24, 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2011.〕 and then attended Kent State University, in Ohio, to study architecture, feeling this He studied architectural drawing, and his work was characterized by the depiction of detailed rendering of buildings and structures. He left college in 1971, before graduating, and returned home to New York, where he discovered his family was moving to Denver, Colorado, where his father's employer, Johns Manville, was relocating. Opting to remain, he completed a 52-page story he had begun in college and presented it in 1972 as a sample to Marvel Comics production manager John Verpoorten, who found Rogers' work wanting.〔 To earn a living, Rogers did illustrations for men's magazines that he described as "()eal low-grade schlock sleazo magazines that had illustrations to precede the stories." When one client went bankrupt, owing him at least $1,000, a friend, Jim Geraghty, offered him a rent-free house for the winter in Easthampton, New York, on Long Island, in exchange for "four or five illustrations" for a local art project. The following summer he worked in a hardware store for several months, was fired, and while living on unemployment benefits approached the short-lived Atlas/Seaboard Comics and At some unspecified point, "I bounced in and out of a shipping clerk job" and did some retouching work for DC Comics, on reprints of 1940s Batman stories.〔 He continued showing samples to both Marvel and DC, and in 1977, his artwork began interesting Marie Severin and Vince Colletta, the two companies' respective art directors. "That got me my first job; it wasn't really the drawing ability," he said in 1980, "as much as my design capabilities."〔 Some of his first comic-book work appeared in the black-and-white magazine ''The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu'', where he worked with writer Chris Claremont on a story featuring the "Iron Fist" supporting characters Misty Knight and Colleen Wing as the Daughters of the Dragon. He eschewed the grey wash that was used in other black-and-white comics stories in favor of applying screentone. With writer Steve Englehart, Rogers penciled an acclaimed run on the character Batman in ''Detective Comics'' #471-476 (Aug. 1977 - April 1978), providing one of the definitive interpretations that influenced the 1989 movie ''Batman'' and be adapted for the 1990s animated series. The Englehart and Rogers pairing, was described in 2009 by comics writer and historian Robert Greenberger as "one of the greatest" creative teams to work on the Batman character. DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz noted in 2010 that, "Arguably fans' best-loved version of Batman in the mid-1970s, writer Steve Englehart and penciller Rogers's ''Detective'' run featured an unambiguously homicidal Joker...in noirish, moodily rendered stories that evoked the classic Kane-Robinson era." In their story "The Laughing Fish", the Joker is brazen enough to disfigure fish with a rictus grin, then expects to be granted a federal trademark on them, only to start killing bureaucrats who try to explain that obtaining such a claim on a natural resource is legally impossible.〔Greenberger and Manning, p. 163: "In this fondly remembered tale that was later adapted into an episode of the 1990s cartoon ''Batman: The Animated Series'', the Joker poisoned the harbors of Gotham so that the fish would all bear his signature grin, a look the Joker then tried to trademark in order to collect royalties."〕 The supervillain Deadshot was redesigned by Rogers during his ''Detective Comics'' run. Rogers also penciled the origin story of the Golden Age Batman in ''Secret Origins'' #6 (Sept. 1986) with writer Roy Thomas and inker Terry Austin.〔Manning "1980s" in Dougall, p. 162〕 The two also did a sequel miniseries, ''Batman: Dark Detective'',〔Manning "2000s" in Dougall, p. 281〕 and had worked together on other series, such as ''The Silver Surfer''. Also striking was Rogers' short run on DC's revived ''Mister Miracle'' series.〔McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 175: "Writer Steve Englehart and artist Marshall Rogers, having garnered acclaim for ''Detective Comics'', picked up ''Mister Miracle'' where the series had ended three years before."〕 Englehart and Rogers' first Batman run was collected in the trade paperback ''Batman: Strange Apparitions'' (ISBN 1-56389-500-5), and the second run in ''Batman: Dark Detective'' (ISBN 1-4012-0898-3). Rogers remained as artist on ''Detective Comics'' for a few issues after Englehart's departure from the series. With writer Len Wein, Rogers co-created the third version of the supervillain Clayface.〔McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 179: "Writer Len Wein and artist Marshall Rogers vividly depicted Batman's battle with a third Clayface."〕 Rogers' other Batman work included a story arc in ''Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight'' which was begun by writer Archie Goodwin and completed by James Robinson.〔Manning "2000s" in Dougall, p. 250: "Archie () was unable to complete the assignment for health reason. Writer James Robinson was hired to finish this interesting examination of the new mercenary Brass and the Wayne legacy. Aided by the art of Marshall Rogers, this story was a fine tribute to Goodwin's brilliant body of work."〕 An Englehart-Rogers story featuring Madame Xanadu that sat in inventory for a few years would be published as a one-shot in 1981, in DC's first attempt at marketing comics specifically to the "direct market" of fans and collectors. In 1986, Rogers drew a graphic novel adaptation of "Demon with a Glass Hand", an episode of ''The Outer Limits'' television series, based on a script by Harlan Ellison.〔(''Science Fiction Graphic Novel'' #5 ) at the Grand Comics Database〕 It was the fifth title of the ''DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel'' series. At Eclipse Comics during the early 1980s, he collaborated on the graphic novel ''Detectives, Inc.'' with writer Don McGregor; illustrated the ''Scorpio Rose'' series and the first ''Coyote'' series written by Englehart, and wrote and drew his own whimsical series ''Cap'N Quick & A Foozle''. In 1992, McGregor and Rogers crafted a two part story for Marvel in ''Spider-Man'' issues #27-28 dealing with bullying and gun violence. 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「Marshall Rogers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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