Declan Shalvey
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Added by Nicknack009Declan Shalvey (b. Dublin, 11 April 1982), comics artist, grew up in Ennis, County Clare, and gained a BA in Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design.
He met writer Andy Winter at the Bristol Comics Expo in 2005, and the two began work on the superhero one-shot Hero Killers, which was released by Winter's Moonface Press in 2006 and won the 2006 Eagle Award for "Favourite British Black and White Comicbook". He has since drawn covers for Winter's comics Septic Isle and Blood Psi and the British anthology FutureQuake, and illustrated Volume 2 of Rob Curley's crime comic Freakshow (including a short Freakshow story which appeared in the small press section of the Judge Dredd Megazine issue 260). He created and self-published the anthology Your Round, the first issue of which, "Tequila", also features work by Bob Byrne and James Hodgkins. His work has also been featured in The Shiznit and the Irish language anthology Rí-Rá.
In 2008 he illustrated Classical Comics' graphic novel adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, scripted by Jason Cobley, and teamed up again with Andy Winter for the colour one-shot Tim Skinner: Total Scumbag, parodying a selection of popular comics characters. He began work on an adaptation of Sweeney Todd, scripted by Sean Michael Wilson, for Classical Comics, which now seems to be on the back burner. From July 2009 to June 2010 he drew ten of the first twelve issues of Boom! Studios film spin-off comic 28 Days Later, written by Michael Alan Nelson. In September 2010 he did his first work for Marvel, a two-part fill-in on Thunderbolts. He has since drawn further issues of Thunderbolts, a one-shot, Captain America and Crossbones, and an issue of Fear Itself, for Marvel in 2011, and is currently drawing a storyline on DC/Vertigo's Northlanders.
He is a member of the Eclectic Micks sketchblog, and is based in Dublin.
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Comics bibliography
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- Hero Killers, written by Andy Winter, Moonface Press, 2006
- "La Famiglia", written by Dwight L. MacPherson, Dark Horrors Vol 1, Arcana Press, 2007
- Freakshow vol 2 issue 1, 2007, and 2, 2009
- Freakshow: "The Quiet Man", written by Rob Curley, Judge Dredd Megazine #260, 2007
- Your Round Presents: Tequila, Olive Press, 2007
- "Pole Girl", written by Brian Kenny, The Shiznit #4, 2007
- Frankenstein, written by Jason Cobley, Classical Comics, September 2008
- Tim Skinner: Total Scumbag, written by Andy Winter, Moonface Press, November 2008
- "Níl", Rí-Rá promotional issue, 2008
- 28 Days Later #1-4, 6-8, 10-12, 16, written by Michael Alan Nelson, Boom! Studios, 2009-2010
- Thunderbolts #148-149, 154, 157, 159-161, 163.1, written by Jeff Parker, Marvel Comics, 2010-11
- Captain America and Crossbones, written by William Harms, Marvel Comics, 2011
- Fear Itself: The Worthy #2, written by Jeff Parker, Marvel Comics, 2011
- Northlanders #45-47: "The Icelandic Trology: Conversion 999", written by Brian Wood, DC/Vertigo, 2011
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MediaEdit
- Fractured Visions, video documentary by Craig Smith, including the 2D Comics Festival, Bridgeen Gillespie, Malachy Coney, Declan Shalvey and David Lloyd
- Live Panel on web and small press comics, The Comic Cast, 20 October 2009
InterviewsEdit
- Interview on Frankenstein at Forbidden Planet (24 September 2008)
- At IndieReview, 9 August 2008)
- On Hero Killers, with Andy Winter, at Jazma Online (23 December 2006)
- On Hero Killers, with Andy Winter, at Comics Bulletin (12 December 2006)
- Interviewed on www.comicrelated.com with Irish based site reviewer and interviewer David O'Leary
- Interview about 28 Days Later at Newsarama
- Marvel: Introducing Declan Shalvey, 2 July 2010
- Quick Questions With, Irish Comic News, 29 June 2011
Online referenceEdit
- Declan Shalvey on Wikipedia
- Declan Shalvey - 2000AD profile
- Declan Shalvey at the Comic Book DB
