Frank Quitely (born 1968) is a Scottish comic book artist known for his work in books such as The Authority, New X-Men, WE3, All-Star Superman, and Batman and Robin.
Quitely was born Vincent Deighan in 1968. He first worked upon the Scottish underground comics title Electric Soup in 1990. He wrote and drew The Greens, a parody of The Broons strip published by D.C Thompson. It was in working on this book that he adopted the pseudonym of Frank Quit...
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Frank Quitely (born 1968) is a Scottish comic book artist known for his work in books such as The Authority, New X-Men, WE3, All-Star Superman, and Batman and Robin.
Quitely was born Vincent Deighan in 1968. He first worked upon the Scottish underground comics title Electric Soup in 1990. He wrote and drew The Greens, a parody of The Broons strip published by D.C Thompson. It was in working on this book that he adopted the pseudonym of Frank Quitely (a spoonerism of "quite frankly"), as he didn't want his family to know it was his work, worried that they may have found it upsetting. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
Initially Electric Soup was only distributed locally in Glasgow, then it was picked up by John Brown Publishing for widespread national UK distribution. This brought Quitely's work to the attention of Judge Dredd Megazine editor David Bishop. He was given work on Shimura, written by Robbie Morrison, and Missionary Man, by Gordon Rennie, quickly rising to prominence and being...
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