John McCrea


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United Kingdom

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  • 1998 - Eisner Award (for Best Single Issue for Hitman#34: Of Thee I Sing)

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Biography

John McCrea (born 1966) is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis. In 1989, after a few years of drawing television and toy tie-ins, he illustrated Ennis's debut, the political series Troubled Souls, in Crisis, as well as its sequel, the farce For a Few Troubles More. He later illustrated the series Carla Allison in Deadline. He broke into American comics in 1993, drawing Ennis's run on DC Comics's The Demon, followed by its spin-off, Hitman, from 1996 to 2001, on which McCrea developed a versatile drawing style equally at home with goofy humour, action, and subtle characterisation. Hitman issue 34 won the Eisner Award for best single issue in 1999. His wilder, more exaggerated cartooning found an outlet with Dicks, a mini-series spinning off from For a Few Troubles More into more outrageous dialect, sexual and toilet humour, published by Caliber in 1997, with a sequel, Dicks II, from Avatar in 2002. Since Hitman finished he has drawn a variety of characters for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse Comics, 2000 AD and others. Recent work includes Herogasm a limited series spun off from Garth Ennis' The Boys.[1][2] On 9 April 2011, McCrea was one of 62 comics creators who appeared at the IGN stage at the Kapow! convention in London to set two Guinness World Records, the Fastest Production of a Comic Book, and Most Contributors to a Comic Book.[3][4] In 2012, he started work on the Mars Attacks! 50th anniversary relaunch of the ongoing comic, written by John Layman and published by IDW. He also contributed 15 new cards to the Topps MA! Heritage set and exclusive variants for the set. While pencilling and inking the MA! comic, he has also found time to pencil and ink issue 49.1 of Deadpool for Marvel, Warpaint (written by Phil Hester) for UK based Strip Magazine and Progenitor (also written by Hester) for David Lloyd's bold new online only publishing adventure Aces Weekly. He returned to DC briefly in 2013 through their Vertigo imprint for an 8 pager (written by Neil Kleid) for their one shot Ghosts. He returned again, this time to mainline DC Comics, for miniseries Section 8, based on supporting characters of Hitman. Section 8 also marks his reunion with Hitman writer Garth Ennis and the team's return to the series.

Artistic production

Comic Title Role Publisher Year Language
Mythic #01 Illustrator Image 2015 Unspecified
Hitman. Local heroes Author Dc Comics 2010 English
Hitman. For tomorrow Author Dc Comics 2012 English
Catwoman. Volume 6. Keeper of the castle Author Dc Comics 2015 English
Preacher. Book 6 Author Dc Comics 2014 English
Mythic. Volume one Author Image 2016 English
Hitman. Tommy's heroes Author Dc Comics 2011 English
Closing time Author Titan 2012 English
Hitman Author Titan 1997 English
Teen Titans Go! : truth,, justice,, pizza! Author Dc Comics 2015 English
All-star section eight Author Dc Comics 2016 English
Dicks. Volume 1 Author Avatar 2012 English
Dicks. Vol. 3. To the end of time,, like (Collected edition) Author Avatar 2015 English
Theater of war Author Diamond 2010 English
Hitman. A rage in Arkham Author Dc Comics 2009 English
Hitman. Ace of killers Author Dc Comics 2011 English
The Punisher by Garth Ennis Omnibus Illustrator Marvel 0 English
Deviations 2 Author Unspecified 2017 English
The Boys. Volume eight. Highland laddie Author Titan 2011 English
The Boys. Volume nine. The big ride Author Titan 2011 English
The Boys. Volume seven. The innocents Author Dynamite Entertainment 2010 English
The big ride Author Diamond 2011 English
The Demon. 2. The longest day Author Dc Comics 2016 English
Mars attacks. Volume 2. On ice Author Unspecified 2013 English
Dicks. Volume 2 Author Avatar 2014 English
Monsters 3 Author Titan 2009 English
Mars attacks Judge Dredd Author Unspecified 2014 English
Young Death : boyhood of a superfiend 2 Author Rebellion 2008 English
Wolverine by Daniel Way : the complete collection. Volume 1 Author Marvel Worldwide 2017 English
Edgar Allan Poe - Antologia a fumetti Illustrator Magic Press 2017 Italian
Mars attacks : complete collection (Deluxe edition) Author Unspecified 2014 English
Herogasm Author Diamond 2011 English
Mars attacks : complete collection 2 Author Unspecified 2014 English
The boys. Volume 5. Herogasm Author Diamond 2009 English
The Boys. Volume five. Herogasm Author Titan 2009 English
Hitman. Ten thousand bullets Author Dc Comics 2010 English
Hell's hitman Author Dc Comics 2015 English
Theseus : battling the Minotaur (2nd edition) Author Lerner 2009 English
Bullets over Babylon Author Titan 2001 English
Evil Deadpool 2 Author Marvel 2012 English
The Boys. Vol. 11. Over the hills with the swords of a thousand men Author Titan 2012 English
The Boys (Definitive edition) Author Dynamite Entertainment 2008 English
Mars attacks. Volume 1. Attack from space Author Unspecified 2013 English
The Complete Collection Vol. 3 Illustrator Inker Marvel 0 English
Jeux De Toile #7 Illustrator Panini Comics 2002 French
Shosen #2 Illustrator Unspecified 0 Unspecified
Get Kraven, Part Four #4 Illustrator Marvel Comics 2002 English
Infected part one #83 Illustrator DC Comics, Inc 1996 English
...All About Eve / Apocalypse #20 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
The Big Heat #40 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1990 English
Symphony of Splintered Wood: Part 1 / Healing time #22 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
Liat's Law II / The traitor #26 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
Book of Babylon / The horror #27 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
The Beijing Spring / Far Too Much Of What You Fancy #42 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1990 English
Symphony of Splintered Wood: Part 2 / Emerald Isle #23 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
Killing Us Softly 1 / Ring Those Wedding Bells #43 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1990 English
Remembering Zion / Going down #24 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
Freedom Postponed - The Tiananamen Square Massacre / Big Heat 2 #45 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1990 English
What Do You Mean Ideologically Unsound? / Sinergy. Part 2 / V For Violence #46 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1990 English
Here Be Dragons / Down the Pub #15 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
The Word According To Ryan / Peace talks #25 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
Here Be Dragons: Part 2 / Home is where the hate is #16 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
The Calling / Her Parents / The Lawmaker #31 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
The belle of Belfast city #18 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
Liat's Law / Soldier Boys #19 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
Back in Babylon / The Twelfth day of July #17 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1989 English
Rebels With a Cause pt. 2 / Size doesn't matter #41 Illustrator Fleetway Publications 1990 English
Local Heroes, Conclusion #12 Illustrator Dc Comics 1997 English
A Rage in Arkham, Part 2 Illustrator Dc Comics 1996 English
Ten Thousand Bullets Part 3 #6 Illustrator Dc Comics 1996 English
Ten Thousand Bullets Part 4 #7 Illustrator Dc Comics 1996 English
Ten Thousand Bullets, Part 1 #4 Illustrator Dc Comics 1996 English
A Rage In Arkham Illustrator Dc Comics 0 English
Four: Sparta #4 Illustrator Inker Dynamite Entertainment 0 English
The Keeper Of The Castle Illustrator Dc Comics 0 English
Three Hearts Part 2 #155 Illustrator DC 0 English
Harley Destroys The Universe: 50-54, 56 Illustrator Dc Comics 0 English
The Gift: Hellblazer 202-215 Cover Artist Dc Comics 0 English
Faith / A Long Time In Politics / Advent Horizon / You're Only Young Twice #1 Illustrator Marvel 2019 English
In Springfield No-One Can Hear You Scream #7 Illustrator Bongo Entertainment, Inc. 2001 English
100% Panini Comics: Dicks #1 (ITA) Illustrator Panini Comics 2013 Italian
Jenny Sparks Illustrator WildStorm 2001 English
My crummy valentine Author Raintree 2014 English