Alan Davis

Alan Davis
Davis in the 2013 Chicago Wizard World.
Born	(1956-06-18) 18 June 1956 (age 60) United Kingdom
Nationality	English
Area(s)	Writer, Penciller
Notable works	Captain Britain ClanDestine Excalibur JLA: The Nail JLA: Another Nail Uncanny X-Men

Alan Davis (born 1956) is an English writer and artist of comic books, known for his work on titles such as Captain Britain, The Uncanny X-Men, ClanDestine, Excalibur, JLA: The Nail and JLA: Another Nail.

Alan Davis was born on 18 June, 1956, and 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 Marvel UK line.

Davis's big break was drawing the revamped Captain Britain story in The Mighty World of Marvel. As Davis never realised artists drew at a larger size than what was published, his art was drawn as the same size as it would be on publication.

Afterwards, Alan Moore took over writing duties on Captain Britain. Davis and Moore, as creators, formed a close working partnership, also creating D.R. and Quinch for 2000AD. Later, Davis replaced Garry Leach on Marvelman in Warrior and yet again worked with Moore. He also drew the story, Harry Twenty on the High Rock in 2000AD.

He drew 14 issues of the monthly Captain Britain title, which was later reprinted in trade paperback.

In 1985 Davis received his big break in the United States when he was hired by DC Comics to draw their Batman and the Outsiders title, written by Mike W. Barr. Davis took over from Jim Aparo, who launch the Direct Market version of the title, The Outsiders. His work proved popular enough for him to be assigned artistic duties on DC's flagship title, Detective Comics, in 1986, again with Barr writing. During the "Batman: Year Two" storyline, however, Davis encountered difficulties with his editor and left after just the first issue of the four-issue storyline, the remaining three issues being illustrated by Todd McFarlane.