David Mazzucchelli

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David Mazzucchelli
Born	1960
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Penciller; Inker

David Mazzucchelli (born 1960) is an American comic book artist and illustrator. His early work was in superhero comics for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, although he later embarked on a series of acclaimed alternative comics projects.

Mazzucchelli received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and started working in comics in the early 1980s. He started at Marvel Comics where, after a few various issues, he became the regular artist on Daredevil. He developed his skills working with writer Denny O'Neil and culminated his work on this title with the popular and critically acclaimed Daredevil: Born Again story arc, written by Frank Miller (now collected in graphic novel form). Mazzucchelli began as a traditional superhero artist but over the span of his time on Daredevil, his work gained in confidence and employed expressionist techniques.

Miller and Mazzuchelli collaborated again at DC Comics, on the 4-issue series Batman: Year One, also well-received and influential in the comics industry, and also now collected in a graphic novel.

After Batman: Year One Mazzucchelli abandoned the superhero genre to focus on more personal projects. He published three issues of his own independent anthology, Rubber Blanket, co-edited by his partner, the painter Richmond Lewis. With artist Paul Karasik, he illustrated an adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass, published by first by Avon Books in 1994, then by Picador in 2004 as City of Glass: The Graphic Novel.

In recent years his output has slowed and his profile has dimmed somewhat. He has contributed short pieces to a number of alternative comics collections. These include:

• "It's a beautiful day..." in Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 1, No. 9, July 1992
• "A Brief History of Civilization" in Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 1, No. 9, July 1992
• "Rates of Exchange" in Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 2, No. 2, December 1994
• "The Fisherman and the Sea Princess" in Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly's children's anthology Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies, published by Joanna Cotler in 2000.

He has also done illustration work for various publications, including interior pieces and covers for The New Yorker.

Mazzucchelli taught comic-related courses at the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City for several semesters.

David Mazzucchelli currently lives in New York City and is teaching fourth year students at the School of Visual Arts. In Fall 2008, Pantheon will publish the graphic novel Asterios Polyp, which he has been working on for ten years.

[edit] External links

• Biography from the 2004 exhibit "Comics On the Verge"
• Mazzucchelli in Little Lit