Alan Davis

Alan Davis is an English comic book writer and artist, known for his work on Captain Britain, The Uncanny X-Men, ClanDestine, Detective Comics, Excalibur, JLA: The Nail and JLA: Another Nail. Davis began his career in comics on an English fanzine. His first professional work was a strip called The Crusader in Frantic Magazine for Dez Skinn's revamped [gcd_link_publisher](3174) line. Davis's big break was drawing the revamped Captain Britain story in Marvel Superheroes. Davis drew 14 issues of the monthly Captain Britain title. Davis formed a close working partnership with writer Alan Moore; besides working on Captain Britain they also created D.R. and Quinch for 2000AD. Later, Davis replaced Garry Leach on Marvelman in Warrior and yet again worked with Moore. In 1985, Davis also began to take on work for US publishers, where he started as a regular artist for the series Batman and the Outsiders (#22-36) and Detective Comics (#569-575). At the same time, Davis began working for [gcd_link_publisher](78), in particular with writer Chris Claremont, where they created the series Excalibur. Davis drew issues #1-24 and #42. In the 1990s, Davis drew, among others, the two X-Men series X-Men (#85-99; Annual 1999) and Uncanny X-Men (#360-380). With ClanDestine in 1994, Davis created his first series as author and illustrator that was entirely his own work. In the 2000s, he worked mainly as a cover artist, a longer run as interior artist was [gcd_link_series](72814), or the mini-series [gcd_link_series](113814) with Jim Starlin.