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Michael ("Mike") Manley is an American comic book artist, inker and penciller. He is best known for co-creating (with writers Danny Fingeroth and Tom DeFalco) the Marvel Comics character Darkhawk in 1991. He would go on to serve as the regular penciller of the ''Darkhawk'' series for the first half of its run. He has also contributed to titles such as ''Batman'', ''Quasar'', ''Captain America'', ''Marvel Universe'', and ''The Power of Shazam!''. He filled in as artist on the serial newspaper comic strip ''Judge Parker'' for the four weeks beginning March 15, 2010, due to the ongoing illness of regular artist Eduardo Barreto, before becoming the strip's regular artist in 2011. ==Biography== Manley was born in Detroit, Michigan. He has worked as an artist for major publishers such as Marvel, DC Comics, and Dark Horse. In his run on the ''Batman'' title, Manley was one of the artists of ''Batman'' #500 in which the character Azrael replaced Bruce Wayne as Batman.〔Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 260: "By ''Batman'' #500, the last chapter of the 'Knightfall' saga by writer Doug Moench and artist Jim Aparo and Mike Manley, Azrael was truly his own (of ) Batman."〕 Manley works in animation as a storyboard and background designer from his home in Philadelphia, and was part of the team of artists who produced the Kids WB shows ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' and ''Batman Beyond''. Other projects included ''Spy Groove'' for MTV, ''Spawn'' for HBO, and ABC's ''One Saturday Morning'', and ''Clerks: The Animated Series'', based on the Kevin Smith movie. Manley then moved to Warner Brothers, working as a character designer. In 1995, Manley formed Action Planet Inc. as a home to publish his own comics and ideas, starting with the anthology ''Action Planet Comics'', featuring his character Monsterman. In early 1996 he founded ActionPlanet.com, which has grown to include Mike's award-winning on-line web comic, ''G.I.R.L. Patrol''. In 1996 Manley moved into the animation field, first working as a storyboard artist on the ''Superman'' cartoon for Kids WB. His first episode featured Lobo, titled, "The Main Man". Manley went on to do storyboards for ''Batman'', background designs on ''Batman Beyond''. Jumping back and forth between comics and animation Manley created and edited ''Draw! Magazine'', the twice Eisner-nominated "How-to" magazine published by TwoMorrows Publishing. The magazine features step-by-step demos and articles on artists working in comics, cartooning, and animation. Manley also co-produced a how-to DVD along with Danny Fingeroth, ''How to Create Comics from Script to Print'', distributed by TwoMorrows. Manley continued to freelance storyboard on TV cartoons such as ''Samurai Jack'' (receiving a writing credit), ''Kim Possible'', ''The Legend of Tarzan'', ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''The Venture Brothers'', ''Growing Up Creepie'', and ''The Secret Saturdays''. In 2000, Manley started a new career as an art teacher. he taught in the animation dept at DCAD (Delaware College of Art and Design) until 2009 and became a senior lecturer at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In 2007 Manley illustrated a new Secret Agent Corrigan story for the publisher Egmont in Sweden. Manley then enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, finishing his certificate in Painting on his way to completing his Masters Degree. 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「Mike Manley (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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